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Today’s Run 4 Miles with a Hill! Music Murder Creek by Wicked Grin

Murder Creek - Murray Kinsely

  The Run – Four Miles with a Hill!   So after two very cold days the temperatures today rose into the high 40s. As such, it became the first running day of the week. Since I do t like to run on back to back days and Friday is a Target work day, it’s looked like today would be the only run until the weekend. I therefore decided I would make it a tougher run than my normal 5K run. I decided the run would be four miles and would include a run up the highest hill in the…

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Van Jones’ Beyond the Messy Truth Kick Starts My 2019 Reading!

Van Jones’ Beyond the Messy Truth – How We Came Apart-How We Come Together Kicks Starts 2019 So last year I reached what I thought was an unreachable Reading Challenge goal of reading 65 books. At some point in the next week or two I will recap what I read and how those books fit into my various sub-Reading Challenges! Additionally, I will be creating and writing about my 2019 Reading Challenges. However, let’s get started by writing about what I have already read in 2019. As well as,  the books that I plan to read in January. Beyond the…

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My Fastest Training 5K-Music by Bryce Janey

Tuesday night before bed I checked what kind of temperatures to expect yesterday morning. The temperatures were predicted to be in the mid-30s, which is perfectly acceptable, to this weather runner! My temperature law is that anything below 30 is just a little too cold! Anyway, I was thinking about adding some distance to my 5K run and running four miles. I actually did a little work around the house before my run, so I decided to stay with my 5K run. When I was contemplating my run I want to map the route before hitting the road. I previously…

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Another Strong Run with Blues from Sean Chambers

The Run Yesterday it was pretty cold in the morning, so I put off running until the afternoon. It was actually pretty nice in the early afternoon but when the sun started to go down it got chilly pretty fast. I ran the same 3.1 mile loop that I’ve been running since I resumed running back in October. It was a pretty easy, nondescript run. The GPS seemed just on target. Here are the results…… The Results Total Distance: 3.11 Total Time: 32:39 Average Pace: 10:29 Mile Splits Mile 1. 10:32. Mile 2. 10:39 Mile 3 10:24 Mile:0.10 9:22 Avg…

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Where My November Reads Took Me -Part 2

After <span style=”text-decoration: underline;”><strong>Dial D for Deadman,</strong></span> I reluctantly left the world of Dan Deadman and returned to Earth. I landed in Siglufjörðurhe a quiet fishing village in Northern Iceland. Here I met Ari Thor Arason In Ragnar Jonasson’s <span style=”text-decoration: underline;”><strong>Nightblind.</strong></span> Nightblind – Rgnar Jonasson Siglufjörðurhe is an isolated village only accessible via a small mountain tunnel. The small close-knit town is one where no one locks their doors. In Nightblind their world is rocked when a policeman is killed at a quiet house with a disturbing past. The murdered officer was Ari Thór’s partner. Thor would have been…

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Where My November Reads Took Me – Part 1

So as I finished <strong><span style=”text-decoration: underline;”>Still Waters</span> </strong>book number 61 for 2018, I  thought of a way to recap my November reads. The setting for <strong><span style=”text-decoration: underline;”>Still Waters</span> </strong>is the Swedish island of Sandhamn. Which made me thinks of all the other places I visited in November via the books I read. So here are the first three books I read……. Kate Wilhelm  – No Defense Kate Whilhelm’s No Defense (54) was the first book I read in November.The book is the fifth book in  Wilhelelm’s Barbara Holloway a lawyer working out of Eugene, Oregon. Most of the action…

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Voodoo In the Shadows – Fiona Boyes

Voodoo in the Shadows – Cajun Blues from Australia I may not have known about blues artist Fiona Boyes., until the last few years,  but the Blues music world certainly did!  Consequently, Fiona is Australia’s most celebrated and successful blues artist. Here are a few of the latest awards….. Professin’ the Blues, received the 2017 Acoustic Album of the Year award from Blues Blast Magazine The Blues Foundation in Memphis has honored her with 6 Blues Music Award nominations, including Acoustic Album of the Year and Best Acoustic Artist in 2017. In 2003, she won their International Blues Challenge, representing the…

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A Good Run, Great Blues and some Explaining!

Hold On - Kirk Fletcher

What’s Been Happening…. Ok so no long recap of why I haven’t posted here for a long time. I’ll just say I had some health issues that appear to have been resolved favorably! The biggest being a high PSA level which is a test used for detection of prostate problems. But after a retest and a normal exam by a urologist, it appears I am good to go. One of the positives that has happened between the initial PSA test and the retest is switching my aerobic exercise from my heavy dance-Kundalini- cardio workout to running. Another is that I…

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A Little Heart Scare? Not! – Music by Anthony Gomes

Peace, Love and Loud Guitars - Anthony Gomes

The Run – 3.13 Miles  So today was my first run since Thursday the 25th of last month. I took off last week because of a head cold with lots of nasal congestion. Anyway the run was pretty good except for a little heart rate scare that slowed me down. I completed the first mile in 10:50 and was running fairly comfortably. My HR was around 145-147 beats per minute (bpm). The rate dropped a little over the next half-mile and didn’t hit 147 until I got to the top of a short hill near the 1.75 mile mark. I…

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No Defense – Kate Wilhelm – Rescued from the Giveaway Pile!

<div></div> Let’s Start A New Series – No Defense – Kate Wilhelm (Barbara Holloway # 5) This afternoon I finished  No Defense by Kate Wilhelm. It is the 54th book I have read in 2018. And how I came to read it is a little different. A few weeks ago I came home with nine books from the used book sale at the library. Typically, when I do this my wife says “ that’s ok but now you need to get rid of nine books”. And I usually say “ yeah right!” Which of course means no way! This time though,…

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