Tempo yesterday. 25.04, a new PR. I’ve grown fond of tempo, wish it was on the calendar more often, wish it was longer distance. 6.26, 6.16, 6.08, 6.14. i got a stitch on mile 3 and i never get stitches. first mile was fastest i’ve ever run first mile. of course i paid for it […]
When I left the party I said, “if I do my ten (you know, the ten i’m running alone) in the morning faster than 80 minutes, come find me and beat me up.” Well, 72 minutes. So come find me. You’d think after everything I learned at the party (who was that bowl-cut cutie’s daddy […]
It’s hard not to stare at people with food in their teeth Whatever that was, it smelled like cat piss Lance Parker is a hit with the ladies Gazelles don’t like light beer Despite all you’ve heard and read, ice and pain-relievers are bad for injury and soreness Frank Shorter ran his 15 mile Sunday […]
I don’t know why I haven’t been paying more attention to my widely-loved knob. Sure I’ve been busy, as always, with kids and work and colossal squid, but I guess like everything, once you stop for a time, it’s that much harder to start up again. But when snowboard boy says even he misses your […]
just wondering … am I at the next level yet? i hear that i’m now a “half-marathon guy”. guess it’s always good to be known as something, whatever it is, and even if it’s mildly (or wildly) inaccurate. i’m going to try to leave my racing to actual races, not workouts. also, i’ve lately been […]
So I signed up to be a coach for RunTex University’s Born to Run program and tonight was the first class. We’re always tougher on ourselves than we should be (or others are), but I feel for the poor souls who I now “coach”. Luckily, Jessica has been a coach for a few months, so […]
I have to write something. It’s been a week and nothing about 3M. Originally, I didn’t write about the race because I was still digesting it all, trying to gather my thoughts about it, evaluate it, process it. It was a personal thing, something I just didn’t want to share. By now, it’s just history […]
So I’m sitting here, a day and a half before 3m, with ice on my knee. If the race was tomorrow I don’t know that I’d run it. Well see how it feels Sunday. It started hurting after the second of those fourteen mile Mt. Bonnell jaunts, and ever since then it has ached a […]