No….not mine..thankyouverymuch, I am doing quite well and awaiting activation. The scar/incision is healing quite nicely and I am comfortably sleeping on that side. Right now, I am listening to/watching Mothership, a compilation of 24 of Led Zeppelin’s greatest hits.…
Category: Running
Back to normal
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Yesterday I had my post-op checkup. Since I was the first appointment of the day, Dr. Diaz-Ordaz decided to play nurse and escort me to the examining room. He then took one look at me and asked me if I…
I wanna go for a run!!
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Anyone care to join me? SShhhh….don’t tell Dr. Diaz-Ordaz! And you get this in Tennessee? Aunt Moosie in one of her quiet moments
Running goals for 2008
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Happy New Year! Time for the annual ritual of looking forward to the 2008 running season. Only this time, I am gonna kick it up a notch so here goes… Goal #1 – achieve more than 4 PRs. Those certificates…
We got elfed and other things
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This a real neat website….check it out….as we got elfed. As of this writing, thirty more days remain before I become fully bionic with my left ear receiving a cochlear implant. I didn’t think it was going to happen especially…
Reindeer Run
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My line… 96 Sam Spritzer 53 23:16 7:30 18/51 M50-54 M# 87 Williamsville NY 97 Anthony Garrow 52 23:17 7:30 19/51 M50-54 M# 88 N. Tonawanda NY And no, #97 is not Steph nor is Anthony my wife….but this is…
Happy Thanksgiving
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My line at the Turkey Trot… 837 Sam Spritzer 0:38:43 0:38:36 0:36:52 0:07:47 64/M50-54 706/M This is almost 2 minutes slower than my time from last year but considering it was cold, cloudy, misty and windy I am not complaining.…
Lindsay’s Legacy and CI updates
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My line… 57. Sam Spritzer 0:21:58 0:07:04 10/M50-54 52/M Beautiful day for a race…cool and cloudy with over 300 runners in North Tonawanda for the benefit of Childhood Cancer Research. The start was west of Clinton Park and proceed out…
The Bob Ivory Run
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Me… 124. Sam Spritzer Williamsville, NY 0:22:08 0:07:07 17/M50-54 90/M Steph… 148. Stephanie Spritzer Williamsville, NY 0:22:49 0:07:21 3/F50-54 41/F This was the 29th annual edition of one of the bigger races of the year in honor of Bob Ivory,…
Saga of an elite runner
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Thomas Proctor, a fellow Checkers runner and one of Buffalo’s elite runners, and I share two things in common – we’re both looking for jobs and we both have a strong intense desire to succeed as runners. We were recently…