January 30, 2009 by gregshore.

Tammy, Noah, Cathy, and Theresa came for pacing drills. And then Allan and Dan came as well. Noah was working on pace for his marathon on February 14. Tammy’s working on a half marathon. Cathy and Theresa came in for one last session before the race tomorrow (update - they both PR’d). Dan had not worked out with us before but he quickly got the hang of things and Allan ran with him.

Posted in Coaching | No Comments »

January 29, 2009 by gregshore.

Ran about a mile with Steve before our meeting. Weighed in and dropped .8 lbs. Still not sure about this new diet. Good meeting tonight with Dr Josh Brown from MUSC’s Weight Management Center. 

Mr. Bowen is one of the brightest young men I know and continues to impress with his knowledge and leadership of the team. Lots of good information. Rick brought turkey and fish for dinner; Cindy brought the vegetables, and I brought dessert. Dessert was Strawberry Creme, made with ricotta cheese and strawberries.

Posted in Healthy Charleston Challenge | No Comments »

January 29, 2009 by gregshore.

Another fun day back at Boot Camp. This time it was all in the gym. Up, down, too slow. With each passing minute, my pool of sweat grows bigger and bigger. After 25 minutes, I’m in danger every time I put my hands on the ground and end up more than once on my behind or with my face accelerating towards the deck when my hands slip out of my way.

Posted in Boot Camp | No Comments »

January 28, 2009 by gregshore.

Worked with the Beginner Runners and Walkers this evening who are training for the Cooper River Bridge Run. When I asked at the beginning for those who planned to walk the race, no one raised their hand. I hope no one was intimated about raising their hand and they all ran, as they could, to the foot of the bridge from the track.

The Intermediate/Advanced group did 1/4 mile repeats on the bridge. Too tough. My group went as far as they could up the bridge in 12 minutes and then came back down. Everybody did great and they even surprised themselves. Even though the weather was a little cold and windy, people had a great time.

I am so grateful for the opportunity to coach, expecially those who might be in the same place as I was a just a few years ago. And I was particularly delighted this evening as I actually felt like I was back to running. I was sprinting ahead in the group to catch up with the leaders and then running to the back to check the others. My foot will probably hurt tomorrow but it didn’t hurt while I ran.

Posted in Coaching | No Comments »

January 28, 2009 by gregshore.

Posted in Greg's Runs | No Comments »

January 28, 2009 by gregshore.

Monday was body bars and an Indian Run. We split by ability but most of the Healthy Charleston Challenge participants are the slowest so I went with them. Partly to be with them and partly because I’m still not up to 100% in running everyday. Right now I think I have about one good day of running and I need to save that for the people I’m training. I did bump up the weight on the Body Bar from 18 to 24 lbs. It hurt and I’m glad the session was relatively short. We ended with an Indian run with a really long line of people.

Tuesday we did my absolute favorite workout - fartlek. It’s not fartlek like runners describe it. There were 10 stations, each with 3 exercises. I was again in the HCC group which was great. Everybody worked so hard and really stepped it up. After each station we ran one lap and then hit the next station. We got through 8 of the stations which I thought was pretty good for the first time out.

Posted in Boot Camp | 1 Comment »

January 25, 2009 by gregshore.

Two months ago, I received an email from Ryan, asking me to review his company’s product, ProWash detergent. I said I would be happy to test the product as I had some shirts that had become truly smelly. I had already thrown away two favorite shirts that continually emitted odor. Most of my shirts don’t really start to stink until I start to sweat. I welcomed the opportunity to try Pro Wash.

Funkadelic

My workout clothes, especially my shirts, have one thing in common with George Clinton - funk. I had already tried another company’s product and I ended up with flowery funk eminating from shirts. Smelled sweet but I could still smell the sweat of a thousand workouts.

Not expecting much, I carefully measured the detergent and dumped it in the wash. I had nothing in there but smelly workout clothes and cold water. Into the dryer they went and when they came out they had none of that telltale stale locker room smell that I’ve become so fond of. Eureka!

The next day I eagerly awoke and threw on my shorts and short and headed to the gym. I jumped on the track and started walking to warm up. Got in line for Boot Camp and as soon as we started with the running in place, sweat started pouring and my shirt smelled so bad that I was soon gasping for breath. I was crushed. I knew I had found the product that would rescue my wicking technical poly dri uber workout shirts from the landfill but it was not to be.

I decided to give ProWash one more try.

It worked. The smell was mostly gone on my older shirts - at least I don’t gag myself with the smell and the newer shirts don’t seem to have any odor unless I leave them sitting in the hot cab of my pickup truck all day. So with time, I’m hoping most of the rest of the odor causing molecules will wash out and that I’ll be able to wear the clothes for a longer period of time.

You can find ProWash on the web at www.ProWashDetergent.com. You’ll find coupons on their website as well. I also want to give ProWash a thumbs up for their packaging. It’s a collapsible bag that takes up much less room than the plastic containers in which detergent is typically packaged, using 83% less plastic.

Posted in Product Review | 3 Comments »

January 24, 2009 by gregshore.

Posted in Greg's Runs | No Comments »

January 24, 2009 by gregshore.

Posted in Greg's Runs | No Comments »

January 24, 2009 by gregshore.

Posted in Greg's Runs | No Comments »