New Shoes!

Hope everyone is enjoying their weekend! I went to my favorite shoe store yesterday, Performance Running Outfitters, and got my running shoes checked out.  I wanted to see for sure if my running shoes might indeed be contributing to my recent knee issues.  The answer from the gal who checked them out – “yeah, they’re [...]

RIP Sensei Paul Harris

Those of you who have visited the blog here know that I speak occasionally of my practice of martial arts and, more specifically, the Japanese weapons art of kobudo. I learned a short time ago that my kobudo instructor, Sensei Paul Harris, died in his sleep last night suddenly and unexpectedly. He was a teacher, [...]

Date Night!

I don’t know about you but this weekend couldn’t have come fast enough this week.  This week seemed to drag on forever but Friday’s finally here and I couldn’t be more excited because my wife and I are going on date night tonight for the first time in about three months (kids put a serious [...]

Calling All Female Athletes/Writers

As I was searching through my normal roll call of fitness related sites, I came across the following nugget courtesy of Her Sports. Her Sports is a bi-monthly magazine that targets women who are big into sports, fitness, health and nutrition and they’re looking for individuals to contribute to their magazine. I’ve come across a [...]

A Great Run But Knee Issues Return

My second attempt at the 5 mile run was a complete success this afternoon with one small caveat.  Knee problems have officially returned.  And not in the knee that gave me issues before.  The other one. Let’s start with the good news first.  My run today I would consider wildly successful.  I think the main [...]

Didn’t Quite Make It

Well, you know what they say about good intentions. I had every intention of making it 5 miles during my noontime run yesterday.  It turns out that I only made in 3.5.  I just didn’t have it in me to make it the full 5 yesterday.  I think there are a few different contributing factors. [...]

Weigh-In Results – Week 5 (Plus 1,000 Stairs!)

Good morning all! Monday’s workout with my personal trainer was marked by our usual weekly rite of passage – weigh-in.  The week didn’t start off on the best note as some of my food cravings got the best of me but things seemed to recover nicely by the end of the weekend.  Part of that [...]

Monday Morning And I’m Ready To Go!

Good morning all!  Hope you’re week is off to a good start! Thanks to all for the well wishes for my health over the last several days.  I’m happy to say that I’m doing much better today.  The congestion in my head seems to finally be dissipating today and I’m feeling healthier now than I have [...]

3rd Straight Rest Day

Sickness continues to run wild in our house lately.  My wife and I are both battling coughs and colds and last night our daughter came down with a nasty case of the stomach flu.  Needless to say, we’ve been focusing our energy on just getting through the day lately. Today will be rest day #3 [...]

Sick Day

So it turns out that pushing myself yesterday was not a good idea.  After starting the day not feeling great to begin with, my session with the personal trainer made me feel even worse.  She went a little lighter on me than usual but it was still enough to drain almost all of my energy [...]