Archive for December, 2008

Athlinks

I’m not into the whole social networking scene. Not that I have anything against it, but I don’t really need any more distractions or things to occupy my time.
However, I am into Athlinks, check it out. Here is my personal profile and here is the RunColo Group. Feel free to [...]

How to Tie your Shoes

In Runner’s World this month they had an article on Ian’s Shoelace Site and in that article Ian mentions how about 50% of the population does not tie their shoes properly. I started to wonder, was I in the bottom half of the population, a citizen who did not know how to tie their [...]

Incentives Matter, Musing & Rambling on CIM

On my post race report on The California Interational Marathon, Lucho posited the following question:
Nice job! Did you examine any mental aspects of the last 10k of the race? Looking back on it could you have run harder? I’m curious is all.. I think the central governor theory (law imo)is interesting. Did your brain protect [...]

24th Annual Resolution 5k Denver (Free Entry)

I have one free entry into The 24th Annual Resolution 5k to be held at Washington Park on December 31st, at 6pm.
If you’re interested, check here for details, then contact me. First come, first served.
I plan on running this race and have already started my taper. The last seven days have consisted [...]

California International Marathon 2008

Ventured out to the “The Golden State” on Saturday morning, arrived in Sacramento around 1pm and I did not see the sun the entire time that I was there. When I got there, it was a balmy 40 degrees and a warm 60 degrees back in Denver. The first thing that I noticed [...]

LetsRun Message Board

RunColo’s 5k Performance 2006-2008

My first “back to running 5k” was in July 2006, here is my progression since then, with a trend line for your added enjoyment. I was going to calculate the linear trendline prediction for my next race, but my timing intervals of actual race data are not consistent, thus I could do it, but [...]