Doing More With Less Since 1972
@Newscoma is sad to report the death of her trusted vehicle, “Steve Austin“.
The upside is that this leaves room in the garage for a new car, “Colt Seavers”. Reportedly the sound system will be much better and will pay a very catchy theme song every time the ignition is turned on.
Heather Thomas > Lindsay Wagner > Markie Post > Asha Greyjoy
Excerpts from a real conversation:
Her: “I’m just not sure I can run this race in under 4 hours.”
Me: “What kind of pace are you running for your long training runs?”
Her: “My last 20 was at 9:05 pace, but I had a problem with my calf cramping. Maybe it’s because I was dehydrated and tired because I was up sick all night the night before with food poisoning?”
Me: “Uhhhh…you’re sick.”
It later comes out that she ran a 1:46 half marathon when 5 months pregnant…and climbed the Matterhorn at age 15.
Freak.
About halfway through the second season of Game of Thrones I was going on a trip, so I got this A Game of Thrones 4-Book Bundle
But…OMGs (both old and new).
The first two books were so much more detailed than the show that I’m actually re-watching it and realizing how much stuff I missed because they had to cram so much into such a small amount of times. It’s like I didn’t even see the show the first time, just previews for it. But last night I got a whole hour of reading time and made it into book 3.
Just read it. Wait…
Watch it. Read it. Watch it again. (Maybe read it again?)
Casting on this show is unbelievable.
On one hand, I‘m in favor of this.
On the other hand, I really like running stop signs and hopping onto the sidewalks when I’m on my bike. Both are illegal.
Lots of time I’ll run in the road instead of the sidewalk because I want the asphalt surface instead of concrete or want to avoid sprinklers. And I often run in the middle of the street to avoid running on the slanted crown on the side of the road.
What if all the things I do wrong are enforced too?
How about we just start by dinging people who throw cigarette butts out of their windows for littering?
This post on a specific instance of hospitality made me think of this post on hospitality in general.
Look at that…one blog linking to two others.
Since it’s in season, I can give an anecdote of going to the LSU/UT game in the fall of 1992 in Baton Rouge. My traveling buddy was a Lousyanan, but had seen the light and was enrolled at UT. He’d assured me we wouldn’t have to worry about eating or purchasing any pops before the game…we’d be well fed in the parking lot. Having previously traveled to a game in Athens, GA as a visitor, I was skeptical. But I was pleasantly surprised to hear, “Hey! You Tennessee boys come over here and get a bite to eat!” several times between the car and the game. We were polite enough to stop and sample several plates of food and pops.
It was like “Taste of Tiger Stadium” without having to buy tickets. Genuine hospitality.
It can’t be stressed enough:
If you are a senior or nearing retirement, your funk will not change under The Uplift Mofo Party Plan.
I haven’t been very motivated this week. Maybe that’s the reason it’s a scheduled as a step-back week on my schedule? Maybe someone knows what they are doing when they make these schedules? I’m beginning to suspect that more and more.
Key Run 1: 10-20 minutes warmup, 3 x 1600 (3 min RI), 10 minute cooldown
Key Run 2: 2 miles easy, 3 miles tempo, 2 miles easy
Key Run 3: 10 miles at PMP+45-60s. That’s 9:45 pace for me.
I never got the gumption to do Key Run 1 yesterday, so I did it today. Blech…I went too fast on the first interval, and the time I saved came back to haunt me on the last one, dragging 15 seconds of its friends with it. Now I’m in the position of doing the tempo run on zero rest tomorrow. Normally I wouldn’t want to try that, but the lower mileage and easy pace of Sunday’s run makes me think it’s ok.
Worst case, I’ll just run 7 easy tomorrow. I told myself at the beginning of this that there would be no skipped workouts, but I would allow myself to run straight miles in place of the intervals/tempos if needed. May need it tomorrow.
As seen on our Yammer network yesterday:
“I hated every minute of training, but I said, ‘Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.'”
–-Muhammad Ali
On one hand, I really like this. On the other hand, I dunno…it’s fairly certain I won’t ever be a world champion of anything, but I like the training.
New policy: 20 push ups any time I put calories into my mouth (making coffee exempt). I’m not sure if that means I’ll be doing more push ups, eating fewer calories, or just eating them all at once. 80 push ups yesterday.
It’s a behavioral experiment as much as it is a fitness endeavor.
The whole fam made it out on Saturday for the inaugural Surf Your Heart Out fundraiser for my buddy Rob “Munch” Munchbach who is awaiting a heart transplant. The turnout was great, and it was the perfect morning for a run on the beach and the waves were tasty for everyone who brought a board.
There are more events scheduled for the year, including a “Stroke Your Heart Out” Paddling Challenge and a rugby tournament some time in November. In keeping with rugby traditions, details of that event are still sketchy.
Even if you can’t make it out to participate, please consider helping Rob out in any way you can and like his Facebook page. He needs help pre-transplant with medication and health care costs.
I didn’t race the run, which is probably a good thing since it was perfectly situated on a rest day, so I won’t report any times. I rushed through a 5 mile tempo workout on Friday and needed to loosen up though, so it was great to jog out the first mile and a half.
At that point I picked up a couple of squirmy bodies, one of which was not at all interested in running and stopped several times to clean the sand off her feet. The other was wrapped around my neck until the finish.
But the oldest got to “finish” her first race and was super excited! Kids tri coming up on September 30, and she’s pretty amped about the prospects of placing in her age group!
Things are already heating up at the ’12 GOP Convention.
That would be the 1912 Convention. Read Jamie Dupree’s account of what’s happened to him when he tried to cover an event.
Whenever you have the feeling the press isn’t being fair to you, maybe the first step you should take is to check the mirror and ask yourself if you deserve it.
More delegates emerged with the same message. People tweeted messages to me from inside the delegation meeting, telling me I wasn’t missing anything.
It was evidence of the power that social media really has right now.
Not piling on Lance Armstrong. The guy’s amazing…no matter what. And it’s important to note that he hasn’t admitted to anything.
But let’s get real. Here’s all the testing we really need.
[poll id=”12″]
If “Yes”, we can say with reasonably strong certainty you’ve done something the USADA wouldn’t like at some point.
If “No”, well…nobody seems to care, unless you are a professional rassler.
On the mobile app, when I take a photo to post to G+, why isn’t there a step in there that lets me apply a filter a la Instagram? Seems like a feature they could implement pretty easily, but it’s not there.
At least give this to users with Android devices, you know?
It’s been a while. If you aren’t interested in running, I’m taking a page out of the book of @newscoma and sending you to a photo of something you don’t want to eff with.
Now…
Some random things that have gone through my head during recent workouts:
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