Out of the sands

Today I was garnered with some wisdom from a man whose house is in a shopping cart and beds besides bus stops: 'you shouldnt run, it's bad for your joints'. Luckily I was past the point of no return, so to speak, and had some motivational words from Dwight Schrute in my head: 'In the wild, there is no health care. In the wild, health care is, 'Ow, I hurt my leg. I can't run. A lion eats me. I'm dead.' Well, I'm not dead. I'm the lion. You're dead.' So better to keep on running.

8 miles down on the road to the San Diego Rock and Roll Marathon, intermingled with frequent walks. Timed in around 70 minutes. Ive found that after warming up it helps to re-tie my shoes again. Not sure if this is because the feet start swelling up during the run or just the added rest, but it certainly relieves some stress. Also, if anyone knows some good calf stretches please lay them on the blog.

have a good weekend,
Andy

Non-Running Topic on the Day Off

Since I'm not running today I might as well blog about something not related to running.  I'll blog about the Biggest Loser - Montefiore Medical Center Edition.  Of course we call it the Weight Contest.

Anyway we had started this contest 4 weeks ago at the beginning of February.  With my work clothing (standard business attire) and after lunch I weighed in at 169.  In the mornings I have been weighing around 158, 159.  This makes sense since lunch and breakfast and tea are all in me plus clothing.

As of today I weight 166.5.  I'm in 6th place out of about 19 people.  Hopefully I can get into one of the top 3 because I think that person get's 100 or 150 dollars after the competition.

So that is my exciting topic for the day.  Rest days are nice.  Tomorrow's 14 will be even nicer.  Ahhhh... an easier run than last week.

Joe

Me and the Bathroom are Friends

"Milk, milk, lemonade, around the corner chocolate's made, stick your finger up the hole, and then you have a tootsie roll."

So I did my 8.5 miles worth of tempo run and I hate to be graphic but I've been to the bathroom 4 times in the last 2 hours.  All number 2.

I'm attributing it to my run today.  Went to Fatty's Cafe after running and they probably made the best burger I've had.  It was a mixture of ground beef and ground chorizo seasoned with cayenne pepper, paprika, and garlic.  Wowee was it good.

Anyway so back to my workout.  Let's hope that this makes the Rock and Roll Marthon San Diego easier for me to run.  So... format was the same as last week.  I did 4.25 miles with 30 seconds rest with another 4.25 miles.

1st - 34:14 ~8:04

2nd - 34:11 ~8:03

All in all a good day.  Take care y'all.

Joe

Another Day

ell yesterday I did some cycling in the morning because it was way to cold to run (13 degrees at 5AM) and today with more acceptable weather I did 6 miles (34 degrees at 6PM).

I really can't say too much about the run.  It was an easy 6, felt good, under an hour.  It was actually quite pleasant.  Lately I've been pretty fed up with working out in the cold.  I'm just not motivated to freeze myself so I am definitely looking forward to the spring, or at least daylight saving time (the s was purposely left out because I found out today its "saving" not "savings").

I was talking with Andy today it seems he's going to do a long run this weekend, which I am happy about.  Hopefully everyone is training well.  I leave you with a picture of me before I ran so you can peer into my life.

Joe

Cycling Again

40 minutes of cycling today.  Legs feel ridiculously sore.  Tomorrow hopefully the snow melts and I can run.  Very hungry.

Work and Workouts

Lately work has been interfering with training.  Hopefully I will find a way to fit my workouts in.  Saturday I did 7 miles - 2 miles easy and then 5 at "race pace."  It makes me nervous that the pace was not too easy.  One would think that 5 miles at race pace would be a cinch.

Looking Forward to a Light Week

So.  I'm sitting here on a Sunday night enjoying some TV.  I'm looking forward to the rest of this week.  It's a lighter training week.  Well, relatively.

Monday - Glorious 45 minutes on bike

Tuesday - 8 x 800

Wednesday - Easy 6

Thursday - 8.5 tempo

Friday - Rest

Saturday - 14 (thank you so much)

And that's it.  Hope everyone is doing well.