As a New Year's resolution in 2006 I decided to take up running. I'm doing this as a form of cross-training since most of the time I ride my bike(s) for exercise. From what I read and hear it's good to have a form of weight bearing exercise in your regime. So we shall see how the knees hold up to the pounding of running. Most of my early running was done on a rubberized track at the local junior high school ( Hixon Junior High School). More recently I've been creating routes all over my local neighborhood and various other places while traveling out of town.

I keep a log of all my runs for grins and for reference. Each log represents a year's worth of run. The logs are kept in Micro$oft Excel and webpages generated through Excel. The comments usually indicate what route I took and note anything interesting that might have happened along the way.

Tracks I've Visited:

St. John Vianney High School
1311 S Kirkwood Rd.
Kirkwood MO

St. Louis Community College at Meramec
11333 Big Bend Blvd.
Kirkwood MO

Southwestern College - crappy Google image
Southwestern College - better MSN image
100 College St.
Winfield KS 67156

Dacula High School - Dacula GA
123 Broad St
Dacula GA 30019

Organized Runs I've Participated In:

Useful Links:

All Sport GPS - provides fitness training enthusiasts with a revolutionary new way to track their workouts and performance via GPS.

Mapping Tools - Collection of useful online web based mapping tools. Very helpful for laying out routes for walking, hiking, bicycling, running etc.

Track Lane Distance Calculator - This script gives runners and track officials the offset distances for a given lane on a multi-lane running track. From a position on the inside lane to a parallel point on the outside lane, there is a difference in distance. Therefore, a staggered start with different starting points yields a finish of the same distance for all lanes. Enter the designated length of the race, the lane number and the lane width (usually between 1.2 and 1.28 meters).

Track Calculator - North American Racewalking Foundation --- promoting racewalking throughout the United States and Canada. Have you ever been frustrated by having to use the outer lanes of the local high school or college track. You know what you want to do in Lane 1 but are not sure how to adapt your plan to the outer lanes. You could give up on using the track, you could bully your way onto Lane 1, OR you could use our Track Calculator to develop confidence in using any lane of the track for almost any workout.

Quotes:

The trouble with jogging is that the ice falls out of your glass. - Martin Mull

It hurts up to a point and then it doesn't get any worse
- Ann Trason

Somewhere along the line, we seem to have confused comfort with happiness
- Dean Karnazes

Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention to arrive safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming: Wow!! What a ride!
- running buddy of Dean Karnazes

Exercise is for people who can't handle drugs and alcohol
- Lily Tomlin