Alan's Stuff

 We had a polar vortex here in the East, and now the thaw has begun.  Yesterday brought cold constant rain.  But it was a welcome distraction. Drying the shoes.

This article from The Art of Manliness has some good common sense advice. Strength training. Vary your routine. Recover.

If exercise was medicine, it would be a very expensive prescription, because it has such fantastic benefits.  Read this.  And take your...

Yesterday was below 10 F, and snow covered. I wore multiple everything, and Yaktrax to grip.

Here's the quintessential graphic novel that explains why we run.  Click in!  It's like six pages long.  Enjoy! The Oatmeal.

I started this blog on January 1, 2014.  In a strange freak of nature, the temperature in south central PA plummeted the next day, and a snow storm started blowing through.  Tomorrow morning it will be 11 degrees, and five inches of snow on the ground....

So lets' get this running blog going! Today I started the year with a 4 mile slow jog around a lollipop route in my neighborhood that we used to call "Nolts Ponds", because it snakes through a farm with ponds. However, my son Jody ran this route once, and he announced...