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Running, feet, and getting old

Last February I tried to start getting back into running. It’s been a slow process, but I heard someone on Twitter mention the Vibram Fivefingers shoes, and I was intrigued. I started researching barefoot running, and really liked the idea. One thing I was interested in was the aligning of the toes. I am developing [...]

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Down Week

Kung Fu is progressing slowly. I’m so out of shape that I tend to go to one class and then mess myself up so badly that I can’t make the next one (I go Thurs/Sat – I haven’t made a Saturday class all month). The previous class was tolerable, we worked control moves (Chin-na) which [...]

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C25K 1 – Mur 1

Sunday I decided getting back into running would get me into better shape for kung fu, so I started the Couch 2 5K plan again. I’d done it a couple of years ago and was very pleased with the outcome. I even ran in a 5K race. Haven’t raced since high school. It was 25 [...]

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Back into running

A little over 13 years ago I quit smoking. As it’s still something I find myself craving, and also something I don’t mind other people doing around me, I don’t think of myself as a non-smoker, more like an ex-smoker. In the same vein, I realized that because my attempts to get into running have [...]