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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:
- Running indoors is nice and cool. But it sucks. Treadmills suck in general. And running on an short indoor track is no fun, especially the turns.
- The key to running your best 5k is knowing that you’ve run waaaaay further and waaaaay faster in training. You’ve just never run this far this fast. I guess that applies to most other distances.
- I miss my junk miles.
- If I had junk miles in my schedule, I’d end up running too many of them too hard. When my current schedule says “easy”, I run it as easy as I possibly can.
- My chattiness is inversely proportional to my weekly volume.
- I thought I liked swimming, but maybe I don’t. Haven’t really missed it.
- Pressure makes diamonds.
Best. Cover. Ever.
I wonder if Lionel Richie wrote this song about the same thing all other Faith No More songs are about.
Ok, so I’m probably kind of an idiot for doing this because this kid’s Tumblr already has way more followers/readers than I ever will, but this is some good stuff people who read (and by “read” I mean “mostly-ignore”) my blog would like.
Here’s the short version: search engines and social media sites are personified, have crushes on one another, and say funny things. Make sense? Here’s a sampling. Definitely check it out.
There used to be a website called Recipe Chimp that let you enter ingredients and spit back a recipe for something delicious you could make from those ingredients.
How about this instead…
Enter the number of neighbors you think are home right now, and the site will give you a recipe for something delicious you can make out of items you can likely borrow from each of those neighbors.
It’s been a while since I posted a random sample of the stuff I’ve been reading. If you only read one of these articles, read the very first one.
In healthy patriarchies, men push themselves to earn the respect and admiration of other men. They work to prove their strength, courage and competence to each other. Men pride themselves on their reputation for mastery of their bodies, their actions, and their environment. They want to be known for what they can do, not just how well or who they can screw.
‘Marathon blues’ can affect Olympians and recreational athletes alike – Someone once told me there was a high rate of alcoholism for former top-level runners and former astronauts for this very reason. I haven’t seen numbers on that though.
This Handmade ‘Game of Thrones’ Board Game Is Gorgeous – The young’uns are loving strategy games these days. Can I justify this?
Cycle Workouts To Improve Your Cadence – Perfect for cross training workouts while marathon training, and a good investment.
Lost Photos – discovering lost photos in your email account – One of these days…
How To Make Caricatures Using GIMP – I hope to get around to doing this at some point.
The Benefits Of A Negative Bike Split – Wait…tell me one more time. It may actually sink in this time around.
Importing SharePoint 2007 list templates (STP) into SharePoint 2010 – Kick Aise. Quick and easy!
How the Lunar X Prize Is a Preview of the New Space Age – Popular Mechanics –
How to Develop Film Using Coffee and Vitamin C! Srsly! | Photojojo – Is there anything coffee can’t do?
TURNING TURDS INTO TRIUMPHS – What she said!
An Act of Great Cunning – Whoa!
Senate rules do not allow a filibuster when the bill under consideration has to do with imposing or repealing a tax. If the Republicans take the Senate and the Presidency, they can now repeal the individual mandate. They will not need sixty votes.
Here’s a great little activity that took about 3 minutes to make. Bug loves it, and it’s a great chance for her to practice counting.
All you have to do is draw the six sides of a die onto a piece of paper. Then your child rolls the die and puts the correct number of snack items (Goldfish in this case) onto the corresponding picture on the paper. When all the spaces are filled, it’s snack time!