Posted in fitness, health, inspirational & motivational, memorable events, race, sports on Friday, October 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Yay! All done! Finally, all those months (9 to be exact) of training have finally come to an end by (I wish I could say, with a bang!) completing the 26.2 mile marathon in Portland, October 4th, Sunday.
Target time of 6.5 hours just didn’t quite happen. I had problems early on, at mile 3. The toes [...]
Posted in dance, family, fitness, friends, general, health, knitting, race on Friday, June 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Hey folks! I’m still around! Don’t go away!
I apologize for not posting for…..over a month?! Such a shame, huh? My website must have gotten soooooo boring, I can understand if my readers (who were few to begin with) decided to abandon me.
So, what have I done during my blog absence? Nothing really boring, mind you. [...]
Posted in Knit in Progress (KIP), fitness, knitting, pets & animals, race on Monday, May 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I have fallen off the fast-moving knitting wagon. Let me assure everyone (that is, if anyone is still out there checking out my blog), that I may have fallen off but I’m brushing off the dirt, hobbling, scrambling to climb back up the wagon. It’s a race to get back on it.
Speaking of race………Yup! The [...]
Posted in fitness, health, inspirational & motivational, memorable events, race, sports on Monday, May 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Yaaaaaay! What exhilaration! What accomplishment! The 3rd Annual Eugene Marathon is over!
The goal: to walk a half marathon (13.1 miles)
Target completion time: 4.5 hours
Accomplishment: Completed a half marathon in 3.5 hours!!!!!!!
Awards:
The medal (not a chocolate medal as I wished; and everyone got one);
A quarter-sized diameter of a blister on bottom of right foot;
A dead nail on [...]
Posted in Random Blabbering Random Visuals (RBRV), fitness, health, pets & animals on Monday, April 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
…the week before the Marathon
Here’s last week’s diary:
Tuesday, April 21st
I did an 7-miler with someone who happens to have damaged spinal nerves and would not join in the marathon. She’s amazingly upbeat, but then she’s totally and heavily medicated. It took us 1.75 hours to finish. That in itself is a BOOST to the ego. [...]
Posted in Knit in Progress (KIP), Random Blabbering Random Visuals (RBRV), fitness, health on Monday, April 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Bloggers know that even a small post entry can take hours to create. No? Then it must only be me.
Although I have blog materials to present, my hours are now being taken up by marathon training. Does it take quite a chunk of time to train? Oh yes!
Yes, because miles upon miles are now needed to train [...]
Posted in Plants & Garden, Random Blabbering Random Visuals (RBRV), fitness, inspirational & motivational, seasons on Friday, March 27, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Doesn’t this look like Spring?!
Okay, the photo above was taken from the Honolulu Zoo close to the Orangutan enclosure and not from around HUE-JEAN. Tropical countries like Hawaii have wild plants, flowers and the likes that look like they’re having a good time coming out of the earth. Elsewhere in the U.S. (at least in [...]
Posted in Random Blabbering Random Visuals (RBRV), Rest & Recreation, fitness, knitting, travel on Monday, March 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
To blogging? Definitely Y-E-S!
From vacation? A big NOOOOOOOO!
But life goes on. And nowadays, money is ever sooo important to have in order to take a vacation. There’s always a need for it….in big chunks if it may. heehee! So back to work to replenish the near-empty tiny coffer that now only have a few nickels [...]
Posted in Random Blabbering Random Visuals (RBRV), fitness, health, memorable events, race on Sunday, February 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The race started at 1 p.m. I got to Alton Baker Park around 1130 so I could find parking and retrieve my packet that contained the shirt, the race number and a bunch of other info. I scanned the area for familiar faces but only encountered my walking coach. The place seemed empty.
Checked out sponsors’ booths, but [...]
Posted in Random Blabbering Random Visuals (RBRV), fitness, pets & animals on Sunday, February 8, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Six-thirty in the morning. That is considered early to wake up on a weekend, don’t you think? And that’s the time I got up today, early enough for some quiet time to continue trying to finish the Falling Leaves project. See this post. I kept quiet so as not to disturb Mr. Wonderful and the [...]
