Wednesday, February 25, 2009

IM Date - 2/25/09: First Event of 2009 on Sunday


This Sunday the 2009 race season kicks off with the Lifetime Fitness indoor triathlon.  My ankle has been feeling better and hopefully it holds up well.  The event is short:  10 minute swim, 30 minute bike and 20 minute run on the treadmill.  We'll see how it goes...

Wednesday, February 4, 2009

Link not working...Sorry!!!

Just put "B.J. Van Beuskom Running" into Google or any other search engine and you'll find it.

IM Date - 2/4/09

224 days and counting until the big day.  My ankle is feeling better and last weekend I got to run outside for the first time in 2009.  I barely made my goal to "run outside in every calendar month of the year"...whew!!!  Of course I ran outside both days so I'm good for both January and February now.

Yesterday I helped out a friend of mine who decided that for his 30th birthday he'd spend 24 hours running and try to "run" a 5k for every year of his life.  That's right...your math isn't wrong, 5 x 30 is still 150; 150k or 93 miles.  Well I got up and took my shift running with him yesterday from 4 am to 5:30 am.  He finished yesterday and made it through all 24 hours and putting on more than 80 miles.  Amazing.  That's more than 3 full marathons in just 24 hours time.  Below is a link to some of the news footage.


Tuesday, February 3, 2009

The year is off and running...and so am I

IM Date:  2/3/2009 and I'm almost back to normal again.  There is some residual pain that comes and goes after a workout, but at least I am able to run.  January has come and gone and I have a fairly respectable 93 miles logged so far.  I did a great run today that I will blog about soon...