I am, for the most part, a self trained runner.  I  set out to run as a survival tactic after receiving the bad news of being Obese and a candidate for diabetes and coronary heart disease when I was in my mid twenties.  That's 38 years ago.  My running has been solitary and defensive, that is cautionary.  Not too much too fast too far.  In spite of my efforts and no doubt due to my inconsistency over the years, I did become diabetic and had coronary heart disease for a time.  As I've noted to Bine, I think, getting past the age that my grandfather died (62) was a real threshold for me.  At the same time, due to an injury to my right knee I had to  lay off running for 18 months.  By fasting I not only maintained weight but acutally lost weight.  Since then my running has been more for pleasure.

Now I'm wondering how to really ensure that I can keep running as a senior.  I am in my 60's for God's sake!  I bought Galloway's Book on Running to learn more about the walk run walk approach and am going to give that a go.  I am also to adapt his training approach to my routine.  As a diabetic, I am advised to do resistance training as well as cardio.   The resistance training is supposed to general with the goal of over all fitness and lean muscles.  Skinny is the thing!  So I run three days a week, lift three as my foundation.  but...I can still use the Galloway approach to increase speed and endurance.  The Walk/run/Walk is essentially intervals, so I will be adding that to one day's run every two weeks.  On opposite weeks I will work up to a really long run.  Hence today:  a conversation pace 4.5 mile run over 48 minutes.  Could have gone longer.  Very comfortable effort.  My regualar mil time decreased from 10 minutes miles to 9.30 last week.  That was my speed last summer.  I would love to get this down to 9, 9.15 which would make me competitive in local races in my age class.


Took Judith out for Easter dinner tonight.  she had seafood, appropraite to her new diet. I had sushi rolls.

Next week I will be playing construction worker in Birmingham Alabama, to help with tornado recovery there.  I hope I find the opportunity to run there.