Hurry Slowly . . . but Hurry!

2010 Ridge to Bridge Marathon pictures. Laura MacLean's Pictures I thought I had this one figured out! The Ridge to Bridge Maratho...

It is a labor of love! But there is a lot of labor involved.  Thank goodness there are four of us that share the load:  Ron Fleming, Scott...

For yesterday's New River 50k, my goal was to be an official finisher and beat the 7 hour race cut-off (I did!).  I knew this would be a...

Mary Tillery ran 33 miles and her 'to-date' personal best run ... and first ultra!  Welcome to the dark side Mary! Susan on t...

  This impressive mug is nothing less then the award given to the 2st Place Finisher in the coveted and highly competitive 60+ Men's a...

It's not often a golf course will allow a run on it's cart paths, but the Golf Club of Rocky Mount is an exception.  I mean, heck, t...

It all started this last weekend when I got a note from Sharon Scott asking me if I was going to try and get into Umstead this.  Seems Sharo...

Guess a slow progress back to running is not totally unexpected, given my blog name!  But I do want to Hurry Up and "get back!" ...

Okay . . . I'm done with all this selfish blogging about this surgery!  Let's just call the knee "well" or maybe "fix...

Okay . . . I skipped posting yesterday.  Bottomline for yesterday: Knee great and back was bad.  Honestly it was almost as bad as every. G...

Short and sweet this time. Today I ran!  Only did about 1/4 mile (I promise!) and no pain . . .  at least no change in how the knee feels ...

Back is much, much better!  Maybe at 50% or so.  Knee is really good.  Every once in a while I'll get it in a weird position and it will...

45 minutes on the ellipse plus 15 minutes doing leg extensions.  Knee swelling almost all gone!  Pain almost gone.  Just need a tad more ran...

Short and sweet today . . . I know you're bored! Knee doing great.  Honestly believe I could have run on it today, but just did ellips...

Okay . . . this blog about my surgery is getting old . . . for me and my readers . . . both of you!  But today's post needs to be writte...

What a difference a day makes! Got up this morning and the knee felt okay, so I decided no crutches today.  I took about four 'long...

 I slept great last night! Today I kept on with the icing plus I started some weight-bearing as I walked with my crutches. This hurt like ...

Okay . . . these next few posts will be boring for sure.  I'm just going to chronicle my recovery from surgery.  I'm sure there won...

Leadville proved to be too much for me.  No excuses.  I gave it as good an effort as I had in me that day . . . but it wasn't enough. ...

Next race . . . Leadville Trail Marathon on July 3rd. Now, Leadville will be quite different in a number of ways, but for this race I'...