IF Run with Dudes

6 miles with Erik, Paul and Owen. Tired, but good to run with people. Feet hurt from running home barefoot from Crown and Anchor last night. I'm running the Fila relays tomorrow. If I run ok, I'll buy a ticket out to Providence.

Wednesday Greenbelt

9 miles on town lake and the greenbelt. Ran with the texas guys. Our miles were only about 6:30 on town lake but they felt kinda fast. I guess considering how badly I felt the last two days it's probably to be expected. Other than that I didn't feel too bad despite only getting a couple hours of sleep. Swam in barton springs before work. Very bush league to roll into work and put on my shirt and shoes in the parking lot. Foot still a little achy.

Woof

Between 6-7 miles, 40 and 50 minutes and 2 and 3 shits. Ran around IF as I'm lazy and my foot was a little sore. Pretty tired and pissy since I was running in the middle of the Sox vs Yankees game (fuck you Judas). Shouldn't have had a boggs beforehand. Felt better as the run went on, but not good. I can't tell if I'm sick or just really tired.

Recovery drinking

8 in the am. After getting home last night I had a milkshake and 6 beers and then went right to bed. Didn't sleep well with crazy dreams from all the hot sauce, I was tired from the last two days and the opposite of hydrated. It was the type of run where you start hoping you'll have to wait to cross at the crosswalks. Dave started with me but he had to stop with some abdominal pain that I suspect may be a sex injury.

week

54 miles in 6 runs. Good weekend of running. I got my first good night's sleep in a month on Saturday night. I'm not taking great care of myself so it's hard to tell if I'm in bad shape or just totally exausted.

Habenero Long run

13 at night by myself. One of the more unpleasant runs I've done latley. Katy and I went to the hot sauce festival and tried every different kind of salsa, hot sauce and spicy jelly. Then inspired, we made our own pineapple habenero salsa. On the run my hands were burning from the habeneros, my face was burning from my hands. Had to stop and dry heave a little. Reminded me of the time Bart cut jalepenos and touched his dick then had to put the package in a bowl of milk.

Saturdays with Burnham

13- we were going to run early in the morning, but I got a call from Dave at about midnight asking if we could run later. I considered that I was drunk and in the trunk of a car, and I agreed. Went nice and easy as dave is getting back into shape and adjusting to the heat. Despite going slow I felt better than expected. Didn't run on friday, there was basically a bowl of guacamole between me and the door and I couldn't find a way around it.

All my friends are out drinking!

5 Thurs 8pm. Hammered a few miles around IF while Katy made dinner and everyone started boozing. I met everyone at El Arroyo after work, but I only had a couple drinks and after swimming by the greenbelt I was sober as a bird. I was going to get up this morning and do a tempo, but Katy basically held my nose and poured booze down my throat last night. It was fun in a I'm at work and I don't have my phone, badge to get in the building, lunch type of way.

Oh hi courtney

Around 45 minutes Wednesday night with Sullivan and Matteau. A nice easy run where Sullivan and I ran game on a cute girl we picked up while Matteau struggled in his offputting french shorts. Sully did pretty good, but unfortunatley he has no way to get in contact with her. I ordered a watch from Amazon.com and the estimated arrival date is between september 6th-25th. Did I order this fucking thing from a cereal box? Until then it will be hard to quantify my running. On the other hand it is pretty easy to quanify nothing. In other news Dave continues to duck me. This time he used the old, "my ceiling fell in on me and ruined all of our stuff" excuse.

Eaaarly morning run

7 45-50 minutes. Stanley woke me up and we picked up his friend Garry who biked with us. Garry is a wierd old guy who used to live right by Stanley. He talks exactly like the "hey there muscley arm" guy from Family Guy. The similarity is pretty disturbing. Took a little nap yesterday but picked Katy up from work around 1, so I was pretty tired. The prospect of Owen coming back, dragging me out of bed and kicking my ass makes getting out the door a little easier this week.

night run with sully

8-9 with sullivan around shoal creek. Ran nice and slow trying to figure out a) what happpened to us in mexico b) how mexico was the muffin top nation c) how we were going to start running again and get rid of our respective muffin tops. Great run, went a lot further than we expected since it was easy and we were having a good time. It's really do or die time getting in shape for the Ekiden and I hadn't run in a week. On the other hand, despite hating my job and working 50 hours last week, I had a great time. Eric is going to wake me up to run in the morning. He's in killer shape; I'd say the chances of the run being over 6:00 pace are about 25%.

Thursday

9-10 with erine at night. Probably about 7 minute pace. After a rainy summer it's finally getting hot. I do a lot better in the heat if I run slower. I'm going to try(key word) to run a lot the next couple of weeks until owen and stanley get back so I can jump right in with their training.

last week

I'm not even going to total up my miles. Didn't make it up for a long run.

Getting Back on the Horse

8 running to the track doing 4X200 and a mile barefoot. It was 89 feels like 95 so it was rough going. I was a little tired from running last night, maybe more depleted than tired. If I'm bored or don't end up doing anything I might do another 4 tonight. Planning on running with the guys tomorrow.

Friday Rabbit Duty

9 or so. I stood up my friend Erine for a run thursday morning so I tried to make it up by rabbiting him in the summer track series. We ran 12:01 for the two mile going out in 86 and settling in at 90 second pace until a slow 3rd to last lap. Not as fast as Erine wanted but he was in trainers and I think he ran pretty tough. Katy used some lotion that had been in my hot car since I bought it, so I had her take the car home and shower and I ran the 5 miles home.

Thursday BitchOut

5 around IF and Guadalupe scouting out the best ways to get to the bars around my new house. The closest bar is only ok. It's got good pizza though and if we got a drink there it wouldn't be too far to get to the draught house, which tantalizes me with the potential for greatness but, is only an good bar. Ran short since I was really tired from moving, my achilles was a little sore and Katy just got into town.

Wednesday Run

7 miles at 9 pm around intermural fields (IF). They leave the lights on so I could run on grass (albeit a 1.1 mile loop) at night. Really tired and sore from moving and one of my sholdiers is killing me so I have to lean like Noah 3k into a 5k. I'm also excited about the late night tennis courts there. It'd be good for my lateral movement and ponglike to get some beers and play tennis in the dark after work.

Katy gets in today, hopefully that doesn't stop me from running. I'm thinking about racing her around IF and doing a stagger that equals everything out (i.e. she's running the loop in 6:30 I'm running it in 5:30 so I give her a minute head start and we race). We'll see.