April 15, 2007 by jon.

On Thursday after meeting with Dr. Mark, I went for a 4 mile run.  This was the first time this year that I was able to run and my back wasn’t sore at all.  I felt great!

I did another 3.5 miles with church on Saturday and even that felt ok.  Of course, when I’m not running I’m moving like an old man.  (Slow to get out of chairs and can’t stand long)

I got the Core Performance back from our neighbor so Kala and I started some of the excercises.  We both hope to strengthen our core muscles and obtain overall general health.  Today (Sunday) will really be the first time we start on the program.  Hopefully it will go well.

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April 10, 2007 by jon.

Well, sort of…  I saw Dr. Mark today and he said my hips looked pretty good.  At least they really aren’t to bad for alignment.  This means I can run a little more.  I have been doing between 8-10 miles a week.  Now to ramp it up…slowly.

Last time I saw Dr. Mark, he recommended the book Core Performance. 

I got it and have been doing some exercises from it.  Good stuff.  Now I actually need to start doing some of the training routines in the book to really see the benefit. 

Basically it is stretches and exercises to strenghten the core.  This will help keep my hips aligned, my posture straight and help me run better.  I can’t wait for that, but I need to do the book.  (Of course, I lent it to a neighbor so I have to wait until it comes back)

Hopefully soon I’ll have a routine in place that will get my core in shape and my hip and back problems will go away.  Then onwards and upwards with running.

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April 8, 2007 by jon.

I had the opportunity to run with my kids yesterday. I’ve started running with our church CCC this year again. They have Saturday runs that meet at the church. I was going to miss because Kala has Bible Study Saturday mornings, but then a friend called Friday night saying he was going. Well, I’ve been wanting to run with Larry for a while so I couldn’t turn it down.

Of course, yesterday was cold and windy. So I bundled up the kids and away we went. When we got there, Taksina, AKA Wonder Woman,

couldn’t make the run so she asked me to lead the beginner’s group. No problem since I had the kids and wanted to run with Larry anyway.

There were 9 of us including me and the kids. We jogged for 1 min and then walked for 1 min. We did laps around the church. After the first lap, Robyn had enough of the cold and went back in the car. She did about .7 miles. Brad ran another lap and then went in the car as well. He did almost 1.5 miles. The rest of us did one more lap and ended up with 2.15 miles.

I heard Larry say that at the beginning he thought it was no problem with the run/walk, but near the end it was pretty difficult. (Larry has run before, but it’s been years)

Brad has said he wants to run the Springfest 5K with me again this year. Robyn is planning on doing the kids 1 mile. Good goals and I’m glad to run with them.
I wanted to get in a few more miles so I ran again today with Shay. Another 3 miles. Can’t wait until I can start piling on the miles, but for now I need to take it easy.

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April 5, 2007 by jon.

Our blog was hit by a spammer and I had over 20 “Comments” in the last day.  So to prevent this, I had to put a block in place that will ask someone who wants to post a comment a math question (I.E. 2+3).  This will stop the automated spammers from hitting us again.

Sorry about this.

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April 3, 2007 by jon.

  A little while ago I talked about finding my college roommate again online.  Well Trin was just deployed to Afghanistan for the third time.  Please keep him and his family in your prayers along with all of our service men and women.

  If you would like to contact Trin, he is at artsoldier35@yahoo.com and his postal address is: