By Shaw | August 29, 2008
Check this out: 15 min warm up, stretching and 4 strides, 15 min tempo, 10 min cool down. UTexas has a huge sward of intramural fields near my house so I did two plus loops of them coming through in 6:22 and 6:45. 23 seconds drop is definitely not bad for me. I had tempos in [...]
By Pike | August 27, 2008
Tonight I just felt that need to do a night run. You know the feeling, when you breathe in deep and get that feeling that its the perfect time to run and you feel powerful and like you can run forever. I got it bad. Which was great, because I didn’t run yesterday and hadn’t [...]
So I counted and I got in 15+ miles last week. Not thrilled with myself, but here are my excuses: there were three days of rest, so I averaged more per day than it seems; I only had 80% of my red blood cells, so my muscles felt…absent; I went away for the weekend and [...]
By Pike | August 25, 2008
Today was my first day of class so I had to wake up before noon. That, in and of itself, made my day terrible. I guess I should just get used to it, but instead I think I’ll just complain about how terrible my life is. So, anyway, I spent most of [...]
By Morse | August 24, 2008
Most of my runs are through the Hollywood Hills. The fun thing is that you never know what you’re going to see. Whether it’s seeing Johnny Knoxville stopped at a red light as you run by or some Russian supermodel cursing out her boyfriend outside of a swanky restaurant (check and check). Now right off [...]
I’m touched, Ben. I wish I could be there too. Eat some cheese curds for me. I was talking with a friend who is an exercise phys Master student at UT and she said that getting acclimated to heat takes about two weeks. There are a number of body systems that take about two weeks [...]
Generally, we are told to stay away from milk on the morning of a race but today I just couldn’t help myself. I started my day with a bowl of Cheerios and then further hexed myself by going to a race entitled “2008 Milk Run 5k”. It was doomed from the beginning right? For me [...]
By Pike | August 21, 2008
Today I did about 6.5. I felt pretty good for like 4, then terrible for the last two. I think I was dehydrated, but still. The last two days I was up north so I didn’t run. Actually I spent about 4 hours a day in the car, so I sat instead of running. Usually [...]
First off, I am listening to a music blog right now…and who comes up but Beach House starring our very own Alex Scally. It’s damn good and you can find it at gorilla vs. bear.
Tonight was pretty damn good. Got in a little less then 5 I think. I seemed to be cruising right along [...]
By Shaw | August 20, 2008
This run wasn’t really that bad, except that the liner of my running shorts started rubbing, just softly caressing my wank-piece. Does that happen to you? Its pleasant but painful. The problem is that I had the hardest time getting out the door. I am finally getting to the point where running feels good, but [...]