March 31st

In like a lion, out like a lamb.

Beautiful run today. Van Ness loop. Bugs are back out. 6 easy.

March 30th

7 miles with a 3 mile tempo @ 5:55 pace on the treadmill.

Not sure why I ran on the treadmill, really. Just sort of felt like being inside.

Black Hole of Record Keeping

Training has been spotty for the last couple weeks, and I haven't been keeping good track of what I have been running. I figure I've been averaging 35 or so a week (weak). I did have a decent race at St. Patty's in DC where I ran 26:38 on a flat course on 3/15/09. I'll try to do a better job of posting my workouts. Maybe I'll make my blog my home page so I can't ignore it.

St. Patty's 8k Quick Recap
Mile: 5:10
5k: 16:32
8k: 26:38
Place: 18th
Weather: perfect - cool and mistyish

March 6th

9 miles on the normal loop with the WOW. a little muddy at parts, but not bad. soooo warm. ran in shorts.

March 5th

6 miles with a fartlek (5 x 2 minutes with equal rest) in rcp. dark, but we get an extra hour on the 8th.

March 4th

day off. my track buddy from naz was in town so we went to the hawk n dove after work.

March 3rd

10 mile g-town loop. sidewalks a little icy

Banana Milk

my friend came to visit this weekend and reminded me of this story from high school. so my friend john-henry and i thought we were pretty ballin' and wanted to make sure the rest of the team knew what epic all-stars we were. to do this, we decided that we needed to work ourselves to the breaking point in a workout and keep going. but who really cares if you're really, really tired? there had to be a very overt and public way to show everyone that we were working ourselves close to death. so one day before a killer workout (12x400m, 10x300m, 8x200m, 6x100m (another story entirely)) there was a 15 minute window before practice where school was over, but we didn't have to be in the locker room yet, so we ran to the express mart to find the thing most likely to induce a spasmodic gastric contraction. banana milk was the answer. we bought 4 bottles and ran back to the track. there was a blind spot around the back of the equipment shed where jh and i pulled off during the warmup to pound two bottles of milk each. i won't say it was entirely unpleasant, but it was definitely not my typical warm-up routine. anyway, we hopped back in on the next lap and started the workout. the 400s were always the worst, but we didn't want to yack too soon, so we took it easy for a while. ideally it would happen during the 100s, but that's unlikely because they are just too short. we aimed for the 200s. it never happened. unfortunately, the banana milk stayed put and just made us feel really, really sick and like pussies for running so slowly. it was an epic failure, but since then i've been on a quest to yack during a workout, and to this day i have never achieved my goal. races, yes, but never a workout. maybe one of these wednesday's my dream will come true.

March 2nd

morning run with pmurph. i waiting at the spot for a while, but left at 6:42a. i decided to impose a personal rule that i'm not going to wait at that cold ass corner past 6:40a. luckily, pmurph was not far behind and he caught up to me at the start of the road that winds through rock creek park. good run in the snow. the road was closed and we were the first ones to run on that sweet, sweet powder. had i been back home there's no way i'd be at work today, i'd be out on the mountain. 9 miles, total.

Feb. 14th - March 1st

Yikes, I haven't been doing a very good job of keeping this updated. Now I'm in the precarious situation of not knowing exactly what I've run. Here's my best guess:

March 1 - 10 miles easy (had a friend in town, so no long run)
Feb. 28 - 0 miles
Feb. 27 - no morning run, 4 easy after work/before boozing
Feb. 26 - 6 miles in the AM
Feb. 25 - 10 miles with a 3 miles tempo (uphill on Tilden)
Feb. 24 - ran with PMurph for a little in the morning. 10 total
Feb. 23 - ran after work, 6 miles past the buffalo (see pimped-out pic below) to wisco and back
Feb. 22 - sunday funday! 15 mile ms sharon loop
Feb. 21 - no workout, just an easy 10 miler
Feb. 20 - Ward One Warriors - 10 miles (should probably google earth this to get the actual distance)
Feb. 19 - can't remember. off maybe?
Feb. 18 - easy run 6 miles
Feb. 17 - morning run with max and pmurph. 9 miles
Feb. 16 - off
Feb. 15 - georgetown loop, 10 miles
Feb. 14 - quick georgetown loop, 10 miles