running

Running in Monroe County

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One of the best exercises you can do outside is running.  There’s tons of trails in Perinton and lots of sidewalks in Fairport to run on.  However; the amount of public trails available for running within Monroe County is just staggering.  There’s the obvious ones like the Canal Trail or the Genesee riverwalk.  Then there’s the road less traveled like Cobbs hill or Highland Park.

Anyway, I found a fabulous little resource  on places to run in Rochester.  It hasn’t been updated in a while but it’s not exactly like the trails are going anywhere…

Dog excercise – A New Method

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We found a new method of keeping the dogs worn out. I’d been eying our bikes for a while but the proposition was a bit scary. For whatever reason, I got it into my head to give it a go today and I’m glad we did. What fun! The dogs love it ALMOST as much as we do.

They got into it so much, they started pulling to make us go faster. The only tricky parts are turning, but they’re picking up on ‘right’ and ‘left’ commands pretty quickly.

This method seems to be far more effective at wearing them out than anything we’ve done until this point. A 15min bike ride has had them sleeping for 4 hours now. Not bad!

Under 40

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Rachel and I ran our first race today. We participated in the JP Morgan Chase Corporate Challenge, a 3.5 mile corporate team race around the RIT campus.

I’ve been to the Corporate Challenge but this is the first time I’ve participated. Last year I was just a cook/photographer.

This year Rachel and I decided to run and so we’ve been “training” for the past month or so.

We completed the race, running the entire distance and we both posted times under 40 minutes (Randy – 39:42 & Rachel – 39:52). Pretty darn good for our first time!

From what I heard there were almost 3k less participants this year but there was still almost 10,000 runners! That’s a lot of feet… To give you an idea, check out the video from the starting line last year:

Next year’s goal? 30 minutes, 9 minute miles. Wish us luck!