St. George Marathon - Oct 2nd

I now have a summer training goal. After many recomendations to do this I entered the lottery and got in:

CONGRATULATIONS!!!
We would like to personally congratulate you on being selected for the 2010 St George Marathon. This year you were 1 of the 7400 lucky runners to be chosen out of a record-breaking 11,000 registrants. We will be hosting runners from 50 states and 17 countries. We would like to thank you for your interest in our event and we look forward to seeing each of you cross the finish line in October!
There are a couple things we need to make you aware of at this time:
• Our Runner’s Guide can be found at http://www.stgeorgemarathon.com/race/runguide.php. This will give you all the information you will need to know for race weekend and should answer most questions you may have

Memorial Park

3.5 miles. usual route. Cool weather. Time to get back into running.

Kenyan Way - National Running Day

Fun workout with varies running groups and random runners meeting up at Memorial Park for National Running Day. Just a 3 mile loop of Memorial Park with warm up and warm down. Start of some summer heat!

Hyde Park, London run with Neil

I was meant to be in Scotland to do a long slow coastal run, but after 6 hours of standby trying to leave London Heathrow, I gave up as I'd managed to sync up with a friend in London who was in town for the weekend. Ran with them twice round Hyde Park. 9 miles. Despite cool weather and an earlier English breakfast, the run for me was surprisingly tough. I'll blame it on jet lag. Neil effortlessly managed to double his normal distance. Park crazy busy with families enjoying Sunday afternoon (is 6 hours ahead in London). Some hills to contend with. Tried to put some effort in on last hill as heart rate graph shows. Great to see the famous London sights on way round. Plenty of other runners were running effortlessly around. Garmin worked great in UK as expected. The route we ran uploads easily to Google Earth and fun to check-out the extra detail there. To make up for unexpected travel changes, had bought some Scottish beer and Scotch Single Malt whisky - both were excellent after the run. Definitely worth the 5000 mile flight for the run and fantastic hospitality staying in heart of London.

The run was bookended by a mellow BBQ Sat night and excellent Polish food and drinks Sun night.

Welcome

So here it is. I've finally made a commitment to blog about the important public aspects of my life: Running, Traveling and Living. Running in all forms has been the only constant in my life. The foundation of almost everything experienced in my life. Traveling has been the framework of everything I have done, and will do. Living (well) is the final result of me as a person. Running is tangible. Living less so - but parallels what is. I naturally lived well when younger: Ran faster, underweight and minimal stress. After 19 years of similar office jobs, it's tough to live well, even with accounting for being older. Now I run slow, am overweight and stressed often.

I believe in the premise that a life of activity is critical to high quality of living in the later years. The modern world I live in simply doesn't promote that.

This blog will record my steps to make changes for the goal of living a better life.