I think it’s finally time for me to make the leap from 13 to 26. No more excuses ! If I don’t do it now, I may never get the chance again. I’m not getting any younger and I’m certainly not getting any healthier.What’s the worse that could happen anyway? I get sick at the [...]
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With the help of Dave Mc Govern, Ive come up with a new training schedule that I think will help me achieve my long term goal of racewalking portions of a full marathon. For the near future though, I’m focusing on the upcoming San Francisco Marathon. This will be the first event in which I [...]
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This has been a week of ups and downs , for both my walking and my asthma.But , today’s performance made up for all of that.. For the first time ever, I broke the 7 min/mile barrier! , *6:29 on the decent and *7:05 on the ascent, to be exact. And though I didn’t have [...]
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I’m up a notch to the yellow now …..And despite the fact that my peak flows are still down, I had a pretty decent walk today. I was only able to do 5 miles, but I got to do a lot of racewalking drills in those miles. At one point in my walk , during [...]
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My plan was to go to Carmel and learn to racewalk, but what I got……was much more!Not only did I actually get to racewalk, but I got the opportunity to spend time with some of the nicest people you could ever hope to meet. People just like me ,who have a passion for walking . [...]
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Can you tell I’m excited? ?? I feel like a little kid….The folks at RESUME. Hopefully afterward the seminar , I’ll finally be able to say…..I’m a real racewalker! I actually know what I’m doing now! Well, at least that’s the plan. I have no desire to pursue a career in competitive racewalking, I just [...]
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Only took me four days to recover from last weekend’s 13 miler AND.. my breathing is back to baseline ! I probably could of got out yesterday but, I didn’t want to push my luck. Today’s jaunt was more of a self-analysis session than a power walk . Im trying to figure out ways to [...]
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I love when this happens….. I was doing my usual jaunt over the Al Zampa bridge( this is usually where I practice my racewalking skills) when, for a brief time, things just started to click. For maybe a 100 yards or so , all of the individual racewalking elements that I had been practicing, came [...]
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