Wednesday

is an easy day on this training program: 3 treadmiles in 20:48, then leg circuit. 

Update: Dammit, I want to do a sub-19:30 5k. That's 6:15 pace. I can do that, right? Maybe the Parkway run in week 11?

Evening Pottruck

Did 30min spin, lifted arms/back/chest.

I love bluegrass!

'nuff said.

5mi trot

I got up early to run today. Unfortunately the temperature was already up to 79 when I set out. It is supposed to hit 100 today. 

8mi

Made up for yesterday's abbreviation by running the assigned miles in a little under an hour. 

4.3 treadmiles

Ran at Pottruck. Was supposed to do 8, but just wasn't feeling it in my head. Maybe I was only one good song away from picking it up. My legs could have soldiered through, but ... just didn't feel it. I decided to swap tomorrow and today. 

5000 watts

I'm going to stop using the dryer. If I do two-three loads per week, and each load takes 45 minutes, that will save at least 10kwH per week. Dryers have to be the dumbest appliances. They are only moderately more convenient than clothesline/drying rack, but such energy hogs. In Grenoble, the Marciaus didn't even own a dryer, and it was never a problem.  

6mi

Ran 6mi at high noon with Matt: Walnut St <-> Columbia Bridge H20 fountain. It's freakin' hot out. We, or at least I, wilted a bit in the second half. 

60min spin @ Pottruck.

Title says it all. 

Evening

Did 4x800s @ 9.5mph (=6:18 pace). Ran 1.5mi warmup and .5 mi cooldown, plus 1mi in between for 5mi total. Then met Matt, Cat, Chris, and Teagan for dinner @ Marigold Kitchen. Good times, good times.

I want a mind of winter...

One must have a mind of winter
To regard the frost and the boughs
Of the pine-trees crusted with snow;

And have been cold a long time
To behold the junipers shagged with ice,
The spruces rough in the distant glitter

Of the January sun; and not to think
Of any misery in the sound of the wind,
In the sound of a few leaves,

Which is the sound of the land
Full of the same wind
That is blowing in the same bare place

For the listener, who listens in the snow,
And, nothing himself, beholds
Nothing that is not there and the nothing that is.

Misery, what's that? Or maybe I just want winter to be here. Funny that I checked out, and returned, many books of Wallace Stevens poems from the library before falling in love with his work.

Morning 4

Burning off breakfast before I eat it. I'm imagining the food hitting my stomach and vaporizing. Erm, that's all a litlte loopy. Maybe I should eat that breakfast...

Ran ~4mi up to boathouse row and back. The humidity is back. 

Revels?

I was just making a new workout mix for my iPod when I came across "Lord of the Dance" from the Revels in my iTunes. I remembered that we sang it to close out last Sunday's mass. I thought was a little bizzare--it made me want to link elbows with my neighbors and dance my way home.

I met Matt for a burger and some beers at New Deck last night. It was great to catch up a bit and make some plans for the Pigs. Somehow things fell apart over the winter and nobody has really played any ball since Harvard/IMs... silliness.

After taking all that time to make a mix, I'm tired and hungry and have no urge to run. Today was meant to be an easy day, so I'll just swap it with Friday, or maybe do two workouts tomorrow.

Tuesday Six

Did my 6 miles @ 7:30 pace, then very briefly lifted arms / back.

Monday

3mi treadmill, lifted legs. 

XI

Yesterday I complained about this training program being too easy. Excessive alcohol consumption is one way to give oneself a handicap. I think I drank more last night at Scott's party than I have on any single day in the last 12 months. We had a great time--Mets game, dinner at a fantastic Italian place (complete with pre-dining bocce), and closed out the night with drinks at Turtle Bay. Scott, Peter, and I caught the 3.47 train to Garden City and didn't get to sleep until past 4.30. I am dragging... but I still made it out for the long run. It was a beautiful evening in Philadelphia--cool temps, nice breeze, and a clear skies. I ran the Falls Bridge loop, slowly (about 85 minutes?), and walked back from Vine St. I think that's still ~11mi. 

Going to steal my bike now. I locked it up at St. John's for JacksYacs mass, and my key twisted off in the lock. 

US Grant

I felt good today so my Saturday 5 turned into 6+. I'm not sure how I feel about this running program. I know I shouldn't complain--it will ramp up soon enough--but for now it's a little ... easy?

Pottruck

Just a quick 25 minute gym trip: 10 minute run, 3-element circuit. 

Whitney Houston is 0% sane...

but when she came on my shuffle I cracked a smile. It's funny what picks you up at minute 43 of a workout. And my "sweat" playlist is, em, eclectic. 

60 minutes of cardio today. The plan for running was 30 minute tempo, so I did 10 min @ 8mph, then up in .1mph ticks for 13 minutes, held it for 3min, then eased back down to 8.5 to finish. Then finished up with 30 minutes random hills on the bike. 

Tomorrow is an off day, but I may try to do Saturday's workout. Scott's bachelor is in NYC and it may be tough to get the run in before I catch the Chinatown bus in the AM. Then 11 on Sunday!

Wow.

What a ride. I'm not a Landis fan, but his ride today was gutsy.