By Shaw | February 26, 2009
I took a glorious run on Tuesday afternoon to celebrate the end of perspective student season here at UT. As I rolled up Congress Ave, I stopped at a light with an old black guy in sweats. It being mid 80s, I told him that he looked hot. He said that he wasn’t because of [...]
By Pike | February 23, 2009
Another couple days split between 5-6 miles easy on the treadmill and 15-25 rolling on the bike. Some lifting in there somewhere too, if I recall. Not a lot of excitement going on in my basement. The spiders are not wild partiers.
Every night and most days I dream about when the weather is nice and [...]
It seems only natural that a week after my breakthrough I am back to low mileage. This time it is the snow’s fault (no I have not hurt myself). We got a good couple inches last night which would have been okay if the bike path wasn’t STILL unplowed… oh and I am going to [...]
Finally after telling myself (and you all) that I was going to run 25 miles week after week I have done it. Four weeks of “running-in-place” in terms of mileage (19, 20, 20, 20) has ended with a 25 mile week this week. No shortening runs or extra days off to ruin the weekly mileage [...]
By Shaw | February 12, 2009
Heya,
I did a number of things today:
*Met with a cute prospective student.
*Checked out a book on open channel flow
*turned in a crappy problem set
None of these things really matter to the folks at TrialsofMiles. The _noteworthy_ things that I did today were two:
*I got tested.
*I threw in some strides and some SSD after my 6 [...]
By Pike | February 10, 2009
Another beautiful day (2 in a seven day period!) so another 5 easy miles. Nothing really intersting, except that I did the exact same course as Saturday, but 2 minutes faster and I felt better. Maybe the biking has helped some so I can adapt faster? I don’t know.
Yesterday was biking with 10 x 1 [...]
By Pike | February 7, 2009
I too have been sick for about a week. I probably could have run through it (in the old days) but it was still cold, so I took most of the time off. When I biked I kept having to stop and blow my nose before it dripped all over everything. Gross.
But today. Glorious today. [...]
Howdy, gents. We’re having our second day here of 50+ degree days. Hopefully a sign of things to come. Fuck them groundhogs. Super Bowl weekend serves as my re-emergence as a contender. Not to say I’m officially ready to contend physically, but mentally… oh baby, look out. haha. I’m hopeful about reintegrating weekday runs. It’s [...]