OK…If I get sick, it’s all your fault! ……… just kidding. Thanks everyone for your
Friends/Bloggers
Mike Mc Bride…. Boston Marathon 2009
Think I have it bad? Meet my friend and fellow lung challenged athlete….Mike McBride. Michael has really bad emphysema and has to be connected to supplemental oxygen 24 hours a day just to stay alive. He actually has a tiny hole in his neck , which allows the oxygen to be delivered directly to his [...]
Boston Marathon
Two great races, one tough decision
Now that the pipe dream of becoming one of the first lung challenged athletes ever granted a mobility impaired slot in the Boston marathon has become reality, I have to make some tough decisions about the other marathon that I love so much. I’m referring of course, to the
Asthma
6 times a day
I had planned to write a post about my nebulizer treatment routine, but then I thought….what the heck, I’ll just video it! Its spontaneous , unedited and kinda lame, but it’s the real deal and it’s what I have to do at least 6 times a day. ( recorded on 1-28-2009)
Marathon Training
A sweet 12 miler
It’s not often that I get to say this, but Sunday was one of those rare long slow distance days, where everything seemed to go smoothly and where I didn’t have any major aches or pains getting me down. Other than being a little nippy with a few light sprinkles at the beginning , I’d [...]
Marathon walking
Me and Elvis do the Rome Marathon
Hey, what does yours truly, Elvis and the “Flying Grandmother” all have in Common? …The Rome Marathon of course. Check out these other Italian websites : Corridori
Marathon Training
Taper time
.!. I usually don’t write reports on training walks, but the “20 miler” is different. It’s almost like a marathon because towards the end, you kinda enter that nomans land ( anything over 18 miles) where your body starts telling you. .”Ok, Ive had enough now” “Why are you torturing me” ..”Just put a bullet [...]
Exercise&Fitness
16 mile Bridge to Bridge walk.
OK…so last Wednesday I walked from the foot of the Oakland Bay Bridge , along the embarcadero all the way over the Golden Gate to the bridge to the vista point, and then back to the Bay bridge, for a total of 16.3 miles. The weather was picture perfect and my breathing was good. Maybe [...]
