If you’re a runner (like I am on some days), you’re dependent on your body, the elements, and a small bit on your equipment (which is shoes, socks, clothing, sunscreen, a bit of lubricant, and maybe glasses, a hat, and/or a visor–and in rare situations your phone, music player, and GPS). You may have all […]

I have two types of training schedules. The first type is just a calendar that tells me what workouts I want to do when. My goal–which I rarely reach–is eleven workouts a week: four bike rides, four runs, and three weight sessions. I try to do the bike rides Sunday, Monday, Thursday, and Saturday; the […]

Here’s a few organized events on O’ahu for running and cycling. I’m definitely planning on doing the Honolulu Bicycling League Century Ride and possibly the Norman Tamanaha 15K; not real sure about the rest, a lot depends on how my training is going. First off is a series of runs called the 808 Race Marathon […]

Diabetics are spoken to often about foot care. See all those folks without their feet (and higher)? Lots of them are diabetics. One of the things that happens to diabetics is their circulation is affected; in addition, for the most part, they have more sugar in their blood than non-diabetics. Circulation tends to get worse […]

Like I said earlier, I hate running. But I found that many of my friends were interested in it, so I got more interested in it for the social aspects. For someone like me, running isn’t fun. It hurts. When I was heavier, it hurt more. My knees and feet and ankles gave me pain; […]

Let me be honest about one thing here: I hate running. I absolutely hate it. But yet, I do it. I’ve now done four organized runs in less than a year and a half, including one marathon (although that was not my best exercise experience). But all that said, it’s clearly not my exercise of […]

I ran this 10K for the first time on Saturday. I found out about this year’s event through (what else?) Twitter. In fact, I found out that two of my Twitter buddies (@tadasauce and @typezero3) were going to be running it (@typezero3 along with his wife and one year old son) and another (@surfchik4jesus) would […]