April 19, 2014

If running was easy everyone would be running. Maybe the word running scares people.
Some might think of high school cross country or track meets where they had to run all out and had not trained enough for their effort. Their experience was a memory of pain rather than a sense of accomplishment. Or maybe they just quit to soon. Or did not realize what running could do for them./
Maybe everyone does not need too run but everyone needs to get off of the sofa and do some type of exercise a few minutes a day. Try it you will be the better for the effort!
Well back to my running.
After my long layoff during the winter and recovering from my Hernia surgery i am still working on my training for the running and track events for the summer.
I ran the Tulip run at Mt Vernon, Wa on April 5. it was a 5 mile run on some trails and roads. there was some sprinkles when the race started but that stopped and it was just cloudy for the rest of the race. I ran the course in 1 hour and 5 minutes. not too bad for about 50% of being in shape.

                                           This is one of the tulip fields in Mt. Vernon, Wa.
For the rest of the month of April I have been running from 2 to 5 miles a day.
My next race is The Bloomsday 12K (7,46 miles) run in Spokane, Wa. There will be about 55,000 runners at this race.The run is on the first Sunday of May. One can expect about any kind of weather on that weekend.
Today myself and 6 other people hiked 6.6 miles round trip in the Olympic National Park from Lake Ozette to the Pacific Ocean and back. It was a great trip.
on my next blog I will get caught up on my weekly mileage.

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Recovering from my Henria Surgery

March 2, 2014     Running for 80 and beyond!

I don't run because I have to. I do not run because I must. I do not run for other people.
I run because I can! I run for the sheer enjoyment of being able to run. And I thank God every day for my health and that I can still run :) .

Yesterday, March, 1st I jogged and walked my loop run from home. Jamestown Rd to Wilcox to Woodcock to Serpentine to Jamestown rd to home. One and a half miles. Jogged for about thirty seconds and then walked until I was not breathing hard. It was an easy day! 

The wind was blowing from the Northeast. Which means that cold weather is blowing across Puget Sound out to the Pacific Ocean. And that frigid air is coming down the Frazier Valley and dumping cold weather in the Puget Sound area.

Stocking cap, gloves and long sleeved t-shirt weather again. I usually run in the winter with just shorts and long sleeved t-shirt even when the temperature gets down to about 22 to 25 degrees.

But when the wind starts to blow out come the warm clothes
I having been turning out at the Anytime Fitness Gym in Sequim. I am doing a light work out for now. I will continue to build up some of the muscles that I have not used during the winter months.

I have been walking for two miles on the beach which is just across the road from our house. I take our two Pomerania's with me. I let them off of the leash and they run belter skelter on the beach. 

They seem to never wear out.

I am running my four annual races again this year. The first one is a five mile race called the Tulip Run. This race is part of the Tulip Festival of Mount Vernon Washington. Then the infamous dooms day hill run. AKA  Blooms Day run. This is a 12K run which is 7.46 miles long. The Kenyans run this course in about 36 minutes. I run it in one hour and 18 minutes. I guess that is not too bad for an 81 year old geezer!

Then the third run of my four runs is the Rhody Run in Port Townsend, Washington two weeks after the Blooms Day run. Both of these runs are in May, two weeks apart.

Then I will run the North Olympic Discovery Trail Marathon on June  The NODM is run between Sequim, And Port Angeles Washington. 26.2 miles. The race is on June 1st. 

This all for now!

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Hello world!

Time to write another report on my life wonderings.

My hernia surgery went as well as expected. I went to the hospital on January 10. My daughter Kim drove me to Port Angeles from Sequim. We were in the  day surgery at 7:00 a.m. I soon had my backless nightshirt on and in bed. One nurse asked me a ton of questions while her cohort began to jab me with a needle to insert the liquids and other acids into my blood vessel.

After much prodding the one with the needle said nonplussed (this is for Philip) I cannot find that blood vein it keeps jumping around when I try to penetrate it. So I will try the other arm. She managed to find one on my right arm and I was all set to go to surgery.

The anesthetist came into the room and reassured me that I would feel no pain. He would take care of me????????

I was then pushed on the gurney into the surgical room. There were  four people in the room. Dr H., the anesthetist, and two nurses. 

My history was read and everything checked OK on the list. 

I woke up in the recovery room and was wheeled into the room where Kim was waiting for me. 

We then left the hospital and we were home by 12:30 p.m.

It has been 3 weeks and 4 days since my surgery. I started walking on January 26. I walked for 1/2 hour each day. About a mile distance 

I will continue to walk about a mile a day until the first on March and then put in a few days of slow jogging.

I am planning on doing the North Olympic Marathon again this year. It is on the first Sunday in June. 

The exciting sports event that has happened in Washington is the Seattle Seahawks winning the Super Bowl. 

GO HAWKS

  

   

Time to update the events and wanderings in my life. 

I am recovering from my hernia surgery which took place on January 10.

No complications concerning the surgery. I am healing up OK according the Dr. Time to update the events and wanderings in my life. 

I am recovering from my hernia surgery which took place on January 10.

No complications concerning the surgery. I am healing up OK according the Dr. 

I started walking 1 mile a day a week from last Monday. I am planning to start to get back in running shape the first of March. Then I am going to run the Bloomsday race in Spokane and the Rhody Run in Port Townsend in May. These are both 12k runs. 

These races will help me get in shape for the North Olympic Discovery Trail Marathon that is held annually on the first Sunday in June. The route is run from Sequim to Port Angeles. 

I would like to run a 50K trail race sometime in the fall but I will have to wait and see about that event. 

Then I will concentrate on track events for the rest of the summer. 

We are having a cold spell in Sequim this week. the temperature is going to be in the teens at night for several nights.

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