Distance: 4 miles
Stretches; yes
Sports drink: yes
Snack: banana
Time: 6.30am
Weather: cool
Who brought Cheetos into the house?!
Left calf really singing today. Miss that one day off. Saturday: 8 miles along the Mississipi River. In honor of our destination, the next playlist will consist of nothing but Hüsker Dü singles.
Thursday, August 10, 2006
Wednesday, August 09, 2006
God does not want me to run the 2006 New York City Marathon
Distance: 4 miles
Weight: 164 lbs.
Stretches: yes
Sports drink: yes
Snack: yes
Time: 6.30am
Weather: quite cool
A hard lump has suddenly appeared on the inside of my right foot, something which could only be described as a bunion. It does not hurt, but its sudden appearance (I have been examining and taking care of my feet, believe me) in the past two days is alarming. It doesn't hurt, but it can't be good news. The websites suggest they are the result of constricting shoes, and lots of walking. We did a lot of walking on Monday at the zoo, but I was wearing good shoes, and my running shoes are not tight at all.
This just sucks.
Weight: 164 lbs.
Stretches: yes
Sports drink: yes
Snack: yes
Time: 6.30am
Weather: quite cool
A hard lump has suddenly appeared on the inside of my right foot, something which could only be described as a bunion. It does not hurt, but its sudden appearance (I have been examining and taking care of my feet, believe me) in the past two days is alarming. It doesn't hurt, but it can't be good news. The websites suggest they are the result of constricting shoes, and lots of walking. We did a lot of walking on Monday at the zoo, but I was wearing good shoes, and my running shoes are not tight at all.
This just sucks.
Tuesday, August 08, 2006
Bowel-shaking earthquakes
Distance: 4 miles
Weight: 165.5 lbs.
Stretches: yes
Snack: yes
Sports drink: yes
Time; 6.30am
Weather: cool
Playlist:
The Distance - Cake
Sixteen Military Wives - The Decemberists
The Way - Fastball
Comfortably Numb 9original ATOC Extended Re-Edit) - Scissor Sisters
Ladykillers - The Similou
We Share Our Mothers' Health - The Knife
Love Rollercoaster - Red Hot Chili Peppers
Buffalo Stance - Neneh Cherry
Cooldown: Still In Love Song - The Stills
A brand new complaint in my right ankle made me turn around a wrap it. What will tomorrow bring? That's a good point, actually - beginning tomorrow the schedule dictates I run on Wednesdays. Three days in a row before taking a rest on Fridays. I don't know if this is going to increase my strength and endurance, or bring me down through sheer bodily attrition.
Weight: 165.5 lbs.
Stretches: yes
Snack: yes
Sports drink: yes
Time; 6.30am
Weather: cool
Playlist:
The Distance - Cake
Sixteen Military Wives - The Decemberists
The Way - Fastball
Comfortably Numb 9original ATOC Extended Re-Edit) - Scissor Sisters
Ladykillers - The Similou
We Share Our Mothers' Health - The Knife
Love Rollercoaster - Red Hot Chili Peppers
Buffalo Stance - Neneh Cherry
Cooldown: Still In Love Song - The Stills
A brand new complaint in my right ankle made me turn around a wrap it. What will tomorrow bring? That's a good point, actually - beginning tomorrow the schedule dictates I run on Wednesdays. Three days in a row before taking a rest on Fridays. I don't know if this is going to increase my strength and endurance, or bring me down through sheer bodily attrition.
Sunday, August 06, 2006
It was right for you to run
Distance: 3 miles
Weight: 165.5 lbs.
Stretches: yes (not enough)
Snack: not until after
Sports drink: yes
Time: 7:30am
Weather: cool
"The Brat Pack" Playlist:
Pretty in Pink - Psychadelic Furs
The Big Sky - Kate Bush
The Gap - The Thompson Twins
Da Da Da (Ich Lieb Dich Nicht) - Trio
Johnny Come Home - Fine Young Cannibals
My Ever Changing Moods (12" Version) - The Style Council
Into the Groove - Madonna
This Charming Man - The Smiths
Infected - The The
You know what I can't stand about high school reunions? The music. It's all the same stuff you hear on the light rock station. The event organizer, bless her lungs of steel, was trying to get my wife and I on the floor - fortunately - just as we were headed out, but you know, they hadn't played a single song that you could dance to. From the Hooters to Hootie, it was either the wrong song or the wrong era. You can't dance to Born In the the U.S.A., I'm sorry.
Advice to all aspiring 80's party djs - please consult the last two playlists. They will praise you for your taste, even as you drive out the squares.
It's not the long runs that wreck me, it's the day after runs. I cannot stretch enough, something gets hurt on those runs. Today was far more painful than yesterday. I harmed something in my left shin (what else is new) and now I fear I am getting shin splints in my right leg. And I didn't think I needed to eat something before a brief, 3 miler. I was shaking by the time I got back.
Weight: 165.5 lbs.
Stretches: yes (not enough)
Snack: not until after
Sports drink: yes
Time: 7:30am
Weather: cool
"The Brat Pack" Playlist:
Pretty in Pink - Psychadelic Furs
The Big Sky - Kate Bush
The Gap - The Thompson Twins
Da Da Da (Ich Lieb Dich Nicht) - Trio
Johnny Come Home - Fine Young Cannibals
My Ever Changing Moods (12" Version) - The Style Council
Into the Groove - Madonna
This Charming Man - The Smiths
Infected - The The
You know what I can't stand about high school reunions? The music. It's all the same stuff you hear on the light rock station. The event organizer, bless her lungs of steel, was trying to get my wife and I on the floor - fortunately - just as we were headed out, but you know, they hadn't played a single song that you could dance to. From the Hooters to Hootie, it was either the wrong song or the wrong era. You can't dance to Born In the the U.S.A., I'm sorry.
Advice to all aspiring 80's party djs - please consult the last two playlists. They will praise you for your taste, even as you drive out the squares.
It's not the long runs that wreck me, it's the day after runs. I cannot stretch enough, something gets hurt on those runs. Today was far more painful than yesterday. I harmed something in my left shin (what else is new) and now I fear I am getting shin splints in my right leg. And I didn't think I needed to eat something before a brief, 3 miler. I was shaking by the time I got back.
Saturday, August 05, 2006
I kiss the city of New York
Week-end total: 24 miles
Distance: 13 miles
Weight: 165.5 lbs.
Stretches: yes
Sports drink:yes
Snack: balance bar (bfeore) NutriGrain bar (after)
Time: 2 hours, 4 minutes
Weather: 5:30am, cool
"The Brat Pack" Playlist
I'm Your Man - Wham!
Perfect Kiss - New Order
Everyday is Halloween - Ministry
Close (to the Edit) - The Art of Noise
Rock Me Amadeus - Falco
Conga - Miami Sound Machine
Like Wow Wipeout - Hoodoo Gurus
Space Age Love Song - A Flock of Seagulls
Delirious - Prince
Weird Science - Oingo Boingo
Don't Go - Yazoo
Road to Nowhere - Talking Heads
Let's Go All the Way - Sly Fox
Strait Old Line - Split Enz
Nemesis - Shriekback
Whammy Kiss* - The B-52s
Can't Get There From Here - R.E.M.
Hyperactive - Thomas Dolby
The Power of Love - Huey Lewis & the News
Gone Daddy Gone* - Violent Femmes
Synchronicity II* - The Police
Shout - Tears for Fears
Pressure - Billy Joel
The Metro* - Berlin
Mirror in the Bathroom* - The Beat
Relax - Frankie Goes to Hollywood
Hold Back the Rain - Duran Duran
The Fanatic - Felony
Favourite Shirts (Boy Meets Girl) - Haircut 100
Cooldown: I Go Swimming - Peter Gabriel
The wife suggested coffee the moment I wake up, before stretches, might assist in my exoneration. Caffeine is a diuretic, but it also dehydrates, so I had a little more fluid ... and felt like I needed to pee the entire run. But it did take care of the other problem, too.
I woke with a slight headache, as I have the past several days. I did not take my prescribed Imitrex. That stuff constricts your blood vessels in order to stave off migraines - and I didn't want to have a heart attack this morning.
Down Little Italy and through University Circle to MLK. Took a lovely walk through the Italian Cultural Garden before heading back. Water break at Wade Oval, one lap there, past Severance Hall and the hospital before heading back up the hill, past Coventry (water break in Turtle Park) and home.
I did feel some pulling in one glute, and then the other, about two-thirds of the way through, but stopped to do some gentle stretches and they went away.
A half-marathon, all by myself. And it only took a little over two hours, which is entirely acceptable.
The question is, could I do it again, right now?
Thursday, August 03, 2006
Stink
Distance: 3 miles
Weight: 164.5 lbs.
Stretches: yes
Sports drink: yes
Snack: Nutrigrain Bar
Time: 6:45am
Weather: humid
I was shoveling handfulls of raw cookie dough into my face yesterday, how could I have lost half a pound?
Boy was up for two hours in the middle of the night, slept through alarm. It's trash day on the east side of town, and running by bags and bags of baking refuse is not my idea of a healthy atmosphere.
Saturday is 13 miles. A halfer. Does anyone call it that? I just made that word up. 13 miles, which will take me down MLK at 5:30 in the morning. That night is my high school's 20 year reunion. Divorced, overweight smoker in 1996, none of those things in 2006. So I got that going for me.
Weight: 164.5 lbs.
Stretches: yes
Sports drink: yes
Snack: Nutrigrain Bar
Time: 6:45am
Weather: humid
I was shoveling handfulls of raw cookie dough into my face yesterday, how could I have lost half a pound?
Boy was up for two hours in the middle of the night, slept through alarm. It's trash day on the east side of town, and running by bags and bags of baking refuse is not my idea of a healthy atmosphere.
Saturday is 13 miles. A halfer. Does anyone call it that? I just made that word up. 13 miles, which will take me down MLK at 5:30 in the morning. That night is my high school's 20 year reunion. Divorced, overweight smoker in 1996, none of those things in 2006. So I got that going for me.
Tuesday, August 01, 2006
Just breathe
Distance: 4 miles
Weight: 165 lbs.
Stretches: yes
Sports drink: yes
Snack: no
Time: 6am
Weather: muggy
"Back to Mine" Playlist:
Quiet Night - Xela
A Wonderful Life - Carl Craig
Nature Boy - David Bowie & Angelo Badalamente
Numb - Portishead
Breathe - Telepopmusik
You Are In The Stars - Xela
Samba Da Bencao - Bebel Gilberto (4Hero Remix)
Porcelain - Moby
Cooldown: It Could Be Sweet - Portishead
Treated myself to gear yesterday. A new iPod strap, and synthetic shirts and shorts. Cotton was becoming soggy the minute I stepped outside, and bloody nipples are becoming an issue. Sorry about that, but it's true.
Man. Only in the world of American athletics can a guy my size find that the only shorts that fit are size medium - and a shirt size small.
Weight: 165 lbs.
Stretches: yes
Sports drink: yes
Snack: no
Time: 6am
Weather: muggy
"Back to Mine" Playlist:
Quiet Night - Xela
A Wonderful Life - Carl Craig
Nature Boy - David Bowie & Angelo Badalamente
Numb - Portishead
Breathe - Telepopmusik
You Are In The Stars - Xela
Samba Da Bencao - Bebel Gilberto (4Hero Remix)
Porcelain - Moby
Cooldown: It Could Be Sweet - Portishead
Treated myself to gear yesterday. A new iPod strap, and synthetic shirts and shorts. Cotton was becoming soggy the minute I stepped outside, and bloody nipples are becoming an issue. Sorry about that, but it's true.
Man. Only in the world of American athletics can a guy my size find that the only shorts that fit are size medium - and a shirt size small.
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