Welcome to Conejo Joe's Marathon Training and Running Blog. This started in April 2009 when I decided to start training for the inaugural Santa Barbara Marathon. Since then I've run several marathons and a number of other local races, while highlighting and babbling about a variety of things running-related in here, including training specifics, race reports, dealing with injuries (and I've had plenty of them). disappointments, successes, local races and so on.
I've been running since 1993 and have logged well over 60,000 miles since then. With over 30 marathons and a personal best time of 2:35 many years ago at the Los Angeles Marathon, I have a few things to say about running. My hope is that these posts provide you something of benefit, be it useful advice for your own training, a grin or two, or perhaps some motivation.
For an archive of past posts by date, visit THIS LINK.
This woman is an inspiration for sure! She runs and works out and at age 95 recently ran 60 meters in 29.86 seconds. Ida Keeling is 4' 6" and 83 lbs and started running at age 67, which means she has been running for 28 years now. I started running at age 28. My goal is to run 60 meters in under 30 seconds when I'm 95 too!
I'll make this one quick. I was at Aquarium of the Pacific this past Super Bowl Sunday morning with my kids. We thoroughly enjoyed the aquarium and then decided to go grab a bite to eat.
Adjacent to the parking lot is a Bubba Gump Shrimp Co. Restaurant and my 7 year old love shrimp. So we stopped in for lunch.
I've not missed a single day of running so far this year, which is good...though nothing to brag about. But my training has had zero direction. Just go out and run as much as my schedule allows. Well that's where I digress back to Bubba Gump's where we were treated to the following at the table:
Then there's another sign underneath that one that says "Stop Forrest Stop." Yes, I was reminded of my running while eating fried food in Long Beach.
Amazing, simply amazing, how Bubba Gump Shrimp was completely borne out of the movie Forrest Gump. Forrest Gump came out in 1994 and BGS first opened in 1996 and now has over 30 locations, including 3 in Japan.
But I digress again. It is now midnight and I best be getting to bed. I've got a running streak to tend to in the morning.
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