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running
- Running in 2025
I started out the year with the goal to run 1,000 miles. No other rules or restrictions, just get the miles in. That meant keeping a steady pace throughout the whole year. It worked out to 2.74 miles/day, the hardest…
- Goal Progress: November
We had a hurricane blow up part of a week of productivity around here, but I still limped along with some middling progress on the year's goals. I'm behind the targets this year late in the game, but I'm still happy w…
- Goal Progress: October
October is over already? At this rate, it'll be New Years in no time flat. Anyway, let's check in on the 2020 goals: | Activity | Progress | Pace | Goal | Plus-Minus | |----------------|---------------|--------------|…
- Goal Progress: September 2020
For the month of September: | Activity | Progress | Pace | Goal | Plus-Minus | |----------------|---------------|--------------|--------------|----------------------------------| | Running | 484.26 miles | 488 miles |…
- Goal Progress: August 2020
Another month down of quarantine life. | Activity | Progress | Pace | Goal | Plus-Minus | |----------------|---------------|--------------|--------------|----------------------------------| | Running | 426.44 miles |…
- Goal Progress: July
A quick touch on progress for July. I can't believe it's already been 5 months since the beginning of the pandemic. | Activity | Progress | Pace | Goal | Plus-Minus | |----------------|---------------|--------------|-…
- Goal Progress: June
These updates during the quarantine are weird. In some ways time feels like it's standing still, in others it feels like it's flying by. Every day feels mostly the same. Even though some has opened up in our area, we'…
- Goal Progress: May 2020
Just a quick update this month. With the pandemic still going, lockdown in a state of unknown non-committal from any authority, and the madness going on around the nation the past week, all of this seems kinda trivial…
- Goal Progress: April 2020
April was the first full calendar month of COVID lockdown. In the beginning of the month I started getting comfortable with the working-from-home setup. I have a decent desk setup and a large master bedroom-slash-offi…
- Goal Progress: March
So March has wrapped, probably the longest month we've had in many years. The shake-up in schedule, work-life patterns, and disruptions in everything from kids, to family, to day-to-day activities played absolute hell…
- Goal Progress: February
A quick update for February. No big revelations or movements on goals, just slight progress. | Activity | Progress | Pace | Goal | Plus-Minus | |----------------|-------------|-------------|--------------|------------…
- First Race of the Year
I just committed to my first race of the year, a 10K in the St. Pete Distance Classic. Sort of a seat-of-the-pants commitment, but should be able to do a competitive personal time (maybe a PR if I feel good enough). I…
- Goal Progress: January
The first month of 2020 is already in the books. 31 days blew by already? It’s been a rollercoaster of a first few weeks, with some vacation at New Years, shot out of a cannon with a reinvigorated team at work, a trip…
- Running Map 2019
I finally got around to updating my local tracks database with all of the 2019 Strava data. I've been lax about updating it since I completed the Shore Acres project in the summer. Here are some fun snapshots: This on…
- Goal Summary: Running Stats
Continuing my summaries from a couple weeks ago, this post covers some statistics on running throughout 2019. I track all of my runs with a Garmin fenix 5 watch synced to Strava, but also have been logging each one to…
- 600 Miles
The goal at the start of 2019 was to hit 500 miles running this year. Tonight's run pushed me up to 602 miles for the year, with a couple of weeks left to go. Through the mid-summer time I was only averaging 42 to 45…
- Goal Progress: November
This was a busy one. Between the All Hands earlier in the month and the week off for the holidays, those are brutal to maintaining the routine (though great to get a break and spend time with both workmates and family…
- Goal Progress: October
The big achievement this month was the culmination of the half marathon training, ending October by finishing my first one. | Activity | Progress | Pace | Goal | Plus-Minus | |----------------|--------------|---------…
- 13.1
Today I finished my first half marathon. Felt great until about mile 10 when things got a lot harder. The final mile was painful, but I got it done and even ended up pushing it to under a 10 minute mile average pace (…
- Weekend Reading: Kipchoge's 2 Hours, Future Ballparks, and the World in Data
🏃🏾♂️ Eliud Kipchoge Breaks 2-Hour Marathon Barrier An amazing feat: On a misty Saturday morning in Vienna, on a course specially chosen for speed, in an athletic spectacle of historic proportions, Eliud Kipchoge of…
- Goal Progress: September
In September the training push continued for the half marathon. I did a personal record 88 miles in the 30 days, for an average of just about 3 miles per day the whole month. Somehow I'm not dead yet, but the aches an…
- A Quick Running Update
I'm almost at the two-month mark since upping my mileage at the beginning of August. I did about 72 miles in August, up from an average of less than 50 per month the prior months of the year. With 3 days left in Septe…
- Goal Progress: August
This month I made a concerted effort to kick it into a higher gear with the running. Mid-month was the start of the Strava training plan I'm going to try and follow for race preparation. | Activity | Progress | Pace |…
- Group Training
Our SNI running club on Strava keeps expanding. We've got 12 members now and counting. Two people are committed to marathons in the fall, and two of us to half-marathons. Somewhere in reading about marathon training I…
- Long Runs
When I committed to the half marathon for October, I also enabled one of Strava's Summit training plans to keep me honest on the times and distances I should be ramping up with as I prep for that race. My personal goa…
- Half Marathon
I've committed myself to running my first half marathon, coming up in October. This sort of happened on a challenge from a couple folks at work. I didn't really intend to throw something like this into the schedule th…
- Goal Progress: July
I had surprisingly good results on goals this July given how much was going on all month. | Activity | Progress | Pace | Goal | Plus-Minus | |----------------|--------------|--------------|--------------|-------------…
- Garmin fenix 5
Wearables have become such a big market these days that there's a wide variety of options to pick from if you want to monitor activity metrics. From the basic Fitbit step counters to more ruggedized outdoor watches to…
- Weekend Reading: Rhythmic Breathing, Drowned Lands, and Fulcrum SSO
🏃🏻♂️ Everything You Need to Know About Rhythmic Breathing I tried this out the other night on a run. The technique makes some intiutive sense that it'd reduce impact (or level it out side to side anyway). Surely to…
- Goal Progress: June
So that's a wrap on the month of June. This was my best month so far in terms of a consistent plan and feeling more productive with staying on target. Even with an out-of-town trip to visit the Cape and Jacksonville f…
- Run Shore Acres: Complete
Earlier this week I finished up my personal challenge to run all of the street segments in my neighborhood, Shore Acres. Here's the breakdown of stats to get there: Total distance: 125 miles — by my rough calculation…
- Running Kit
This year's annual target for running (pinned at the 500 mile mark) has me trying to figure out my own personal flow — what it takes to get a consistent, comfortable process for building the habit. The number one fact…
- Goal Progress: May
For the second half of the month I got into a good rhythm with every-other-day running. I was even able to push almost 5 miles beyond the pace target to end the month. I started running with the kids again in the jogg…
- Neighborhood Run Progress
I'm making quick work of the streets of Shore Acres. Yesterday I set up a quick and dirty local database that I could load the tracks into. I'm just using the GPX export feature on each activity and the ogr2ogr comman…
- Night Running
With all my commitments each day between work life, kids, and other things, it's hard to fit exercise into the schedule. Combine that with the struggles I have personally with rising before the kids to get running in,…
- Run Shore Acres
For no particular reason I decided to try and run every street segment in my neighborhood. A while ago I saw this project from ultrarunner Rickey Gates where he ran every single street in San Francisco. Of course my n…
- Exploring Cycling Data with Python, Strava and PostgreSQL
This is an interesting project on GitHub for syncing data from the Strava API for analysis from a local database. I've had my eye out for some way to do this cleanly — to use the Strava Activities API to sync each tra…
- Foxelli Headlamp
Since I do so many of my runs at night (even as late as 10-10:30pm), I've always been mindful of being visible for safety. Until we moved last month, I used to drive down to the Coffee Pot Bayou area and run on what's…
- Goal Progress: April
I was able to stay on track this past month toward my 2019 goals. | Activity | Progress | Pace | Goal | Plus-Minus | |----------------|--------------|--------------|--------------|----------------------------------| |…
- Weekend Reading: Running Maps, Thinking, and Remote Work
🏃🏻♂️ On the Go Map Found via Tom MacWright, a slick and simple tool for doing run route planning built on modern web tech. It uses basic routing APIs and distance calculation to help plan out runs, which is especia…
- Goal Progress: March
Month three is in the books. A seriously eventful month for us, so I'm surprised I was able to stay ahead of the curve. | Activity | Progress | Pace | Goal | Plus-Minus | |----------------|--------------|-------------…
- Goal Progress: February
We just crossed month number two of the year, so here’s another pulse check on how I’m tracking against some personal goals for 2019. I’m tracking on all fronts, slightly better positioned against the pace marks than…
- San Jose
We just touched down in San Jose this afternoon, here for the SaaStr Annual conference. An uneventful flight through LAX, arriving around 1pm local time here in California. One of my favorite things about westbound tr…
- Goal Progress: January
This is the first year I set some goals on a few things. I’ve never been strongly goal-oriented, so I thought I’d put some stuff down to hold myself accountable and see if it helps build some healthy habits into my ro…
- Don't Think Too Hard About Your Running Form
The experiment was designed to test a theory in motor learning that distinguishes between directing your focus internally or externally. A large body of research suggests that focusing externally, on the consequences…
- Running Update
After a tumultuous 8-10 months since last summer, I’ve gotten regularly back into running the last few months. I did over 50K in distance during August. I haven’t checked, but that must be a personal record. There wer…