August reveiw

August was a very busy month.  I have been working two jobs for about a month now.  It’s stressful on me and my family and I am looking forward to when I am done writing this thesis and can concentrate on my new career at Life tech.  In the mean time I will quite literally [...]

Thankful for spam blocker

So I guess Word press is getting slammed with spam, at least my blog has been recently.  Lots of advertisements for nude pics of people.  But that is why we put these filters on our accounts.  I am not sure what the spammer gets in return for all of this.  There must be some sort [...]

12.2 mile week

After a week off for my toe, I didn’t know how this week was going to go.  Apparently the extra rest was good for me because I reached 12 miles total.  Thats a new high for this year.  I know all of you 50 mile a weekers probably scoff in my general direction but hey, [...]

Running note

This is just to say I took this week off from running.  I had a bad blister that wasn’t healing correctly because of its location on my foot.  so I wanted to get that squared away before it resulted in something worse.  Technically, my week starts on monday, so I could get in some miles [...]

May running review and how I became a Yankees fan

I am really happy about May.  I ran for 36 miles this month.  That’s 16 miles above my average last year.  I made it out at least three times a week.  I had three 5 mile long runs.  So there is improvement.  More over, I ran a sub 16 minute two miles and  a sub [...]

Spirit of the Marathon

I just recently watched the movie Spirit of the Marathon on my netflix online.  It followed six runners with different capabilities as they prepared for the 2005 marathon.  There was a person striving for a BQ, another was an older runner running with his daughter on her first marathon, there was three other first time marathoners as well.  Spliced [...]

programmed for 2 miles

The most comfortable distance to me is 2 miles.  That was the distance for the physical training test in the Army.  The fastest I ever ran 2 miles was about 14:30 however, during a PT test I normally was around 15:30.  When I was 18 my qualifying time was 15:49, so I liked 15:30 for [...]

Sustained pressure leads to sustainable increase

When I played video games as a kid and even today I noticed that I could get a score consistently, lets say 1000 pts.  but every now and then I would get a spike of 7000 pts.  As I played longer, I would be able to sustain 7000 pts. and with occasional jumps to 20000 [...]

(s)not fun

So last week was just lost to congestion.  I tried to run through it but I couldn’t breath.  If snot was worth something, last week Congress would have wanted to charge me a windfall tax.
I did a mile on Friday in my new New Balance sneakers I got a Fleet Feet.  That store was really [...]

Brian’s fault

OK, Brian, inspired by Patrick, has lised his most embarrassing IPOD songs for his runs.  Well, here are mine.  Athough I lack Spears there are some bad ones on this list.
1. Girls just wanna have fun – Cindi Lauper
2. I will survive -Gloria Gaynor
3. Holding out for a  hero – Original by Bonnie Tyler & [...]