At this time last year I was nervously laughing at my friend Doug, who was trying to convince me to follow through on a promise to run the Vermont 50 with him. I had made that promise during a moment of idiocy, immediately regretting my words the moment they flew out of my mouth. There [...]
Posts Tagged ‘running’
Priorities
Posted in motivation, other, tagged autism, boston autism walk 2012, Priorities, running, Vermont 50, walking on February 17, 2012 | 2 Comments »
I Want You!
Posted in motivation, other, Uncategorized, tagged 13.1 Boston, Autism Speaks, autism speaks walk, Half-Marathon, marathon series, running, Team Up! with Autism Speaks on February 14, 2012 | 23 Comments »
Last Saturday I had the honor of attending the Boston Autism Speaks Walk Awards Dinner. It was an evening filled with inspiration and hope. While there I spent some time talking with Erica Giunta, head of the Massachusetts chapter of Autism Speaks. She was excited to tell me that Autism Speaks and the 13.1 Marathon [...]
Super Sunday 5
Posted in motivation, race recap, racing, tagged racing, running, race recap, race report, Super Sunday 5, supersunday on February 9, 2012 | 4 Comments »
My very first road race was the SuperSunday 5K/10K – all the way back in 2009. I had no idea what I was doing and it showed. I entered the 10K and finished in a respectable 46:58. The following year I entered it again (again in the 10K) and ran what was probably my best [...]
The Toughest Ten Minutes of the Day
Posted in health, motivation, training, tagged body in motion, couch potatoes, Inertia, motivation, principles of physics, running, toughest ten minutes on January 31, 2012 | 8 Comments »
4:10 AM – the alarm on my phone goes off – a mix of a loud snoring sound and the phone vibrating on my nightstand. 4:10 AM. Ugh. Am I really gonna do this? Do I really WANT to do this? 10 miles? Really? It’s 30° outside. It’s cold. It’s dark. I could just hit [...]
I am not Tim Pawlenty
Posted in boston marathon, motivation, training, tagged finish line, iowa straw poll, lactate threshold, marathon pace, marathon training, quitting, running, Sugarloaf Marathon, Tim Pawlenty on January 18, 2012 | 7 Comments »
If you don’t follow politics at all, you may not know who Tim Pawlenty is. He is a former governor of the state of Minnesota who decided to run for President. He was part of the large field of Republican candidates who were vying for their party’s nomination. Last summer, after finishing a distant 3rd [...]
Semantics
Posted in diet, health, tagged calorie tracking, counting calories, diet, lose weight, new year's resolution, resolutions, running, semantics, weight loss on January 11, 2012 | 10 Comments »
Every New Year hundreds of thousands of people vow to change their ways, to improve themselves. These “resolutions” come in all forms, but one of the most common is about weight loss and fitness. My friend Greg over at Pre-Dawn Runner wrote a post recently about just these sorts of resolutions and why 90% of [...]
Clean Slate
Posted in training, tagged clean slate, mojo, New Year, resolution, running, training on January 9, 2012 | 6 Comments »
I have never been big on New Year’s Resolutions. I find them to be somewhat silly – seriously, if you want to do or change something, why not do it the moment you think of it? Why wait for the turning of the calendar? That being said, I must admit, there is something about wiping [...]
Reason
Posted in health, motivation, tagged Charity, giving, health, obesity, running, self care, self motivation on December 21, 2011 | 2 Comments »
This video is old, but I saw it just the other day for the first time. It made me think of my ongoing struggle to get back into the swing of things. This video is relatively new. It was posted by a doctor who is advocating exercise in a very simple, easy to understand way. [...]
Proof of god
Posted in Odd Ball, Uncategorized, tagged God, proof of god, running, sports, tebow, tim on December 16, 2011 | 4 Comments »
A while back ago I wrote a post railing against the Almighty. It was a dark time in the Luau household. I was angry. Bitter. Lost. Since then, I think I may have come around to the idea that god exists. How else does one explain the phenomenon simply known as Tebow. Here is a [...]
Another Hazard?
Posted in health, tagged good shape, health, running, sick on December 15, 2011 | 6 Comments »
I went to the doctor’s office yesterday. The last week or so I’ve had this water-logged feeling in my lungs and have been suffering from what I can only describe as fatigue and lethargy. In addition, as I explained to the doctor, my throat feels “hairy”. It had become bad enough that I spent Tuesday [...]









