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Wednesday, 15 October 2008

bum bum bum bum bum..

it's been a year since i left for my officer basic school, and if you asked me back then, i'd never guess that i'd STILL be sitting around the house with nothing to do.

..and i mean NOTHING. i wake up around noon, schlep around for an hour...or two...or three...all the while trying to build the motivation to log in some miles and keep up with marathon training. I guess it's the closest thing to a job that's on my schedule, since it happens every day, but other than that, i really don't do much.

eat. run. read. eat. happy hour? eat. rock climb. eat. read. innnnnntttteeerrrnet. pass out. rinse. repeat.

with all this free time, you'd figure that i'd do more productive things, like learn italian, or knit a hat, or draft a short term economic recovery plan. nope. PFFT. i guess there is such a thing as having so little to do that it becomes stupefying.

2008 started off well enough. the 4 months in OBC couldn't wrap up soon enough, and the day finally came when I packed up my hotel room, threw it all in the trunk, and raced halfway cross country back to maryland

::whew!::

it felt GREAT to come home, and 2008 started off well enough. i caught up with old friends...which for those closest of friends can simply mean vegging out on a couch and soaking up their friendship rays. travelled to places far and near. snow, kevin, running, in utah! tricycles, san mig, runs, scooooba, weddings in the philippines! clubs, foood, penthouse in new york!

whooohooo!!

even the 9-5 was coming along nicely. my hospital had enough funding to give me a full time job. that is, until the new fiscal year started to loom in the horizon. due to an "organizational realignment" (as will always happen when a new general has a great idea about how things should be set up), and due to all the other goings ons in the economy and military affairs...no. more. money. no. more. job. for. me.

...which brings things to where i am now.

now that i'm out of school, i finally have enough money scraped together to go out there and see new places, but since everyone has a job or school nowadays, i'm left with no one to have silly adventures with. and since this whole no more job thing isn't going to last forever, i'd like to make the most of these otherwise bum-around-and-do-nothing days.

hear ye!
::wanted::
adventure buddy. full in spirit. ready to go as the wind blows (untethered by a "job"). bankroll not necessary - adventures tailored to current recession.

Monday, 29 October 2007

hello!

bringing it back..

Friday, 30 March 2007

No one reads this thing anymore, but hey it's a running log...

YATTA !!! I DID IT !!!
Kevin, Pat and I set out 6 AM on a Saturday morning looking to complete a 26.2 mile journey...WITHOUT TRAINING. The Baltimore Marathon was hard enough with months of training, but I didn't want my registration fee to go to waste and for Pat to run his first marathon alone, so Kevin and I decided to run in the Walt Disney World Marathon about 2 weeks before the race.
Time: Almost twice as long as the Balimore Marathon (6 hours, 40 min = 15 min pace)
Motivation: Gotta get back into shape
Body: Play this game - take a deck of cards and draw 10 cards face down. Flip each card over one at a time and do the corresponding number of pushups. J-Q-K = 10, A = 11. Whew!

Sunday, 14 May 2006

ok ok..

WALT DISNEY MARATHON??

-january.07.2007

on another note, why do bikes have to be so expensive? im not even talking about the fancy kind with engines and stuff..just the kind you have to pedal yourself.

sheesh all i want to do is start triathalon-aling

Saturday, 15 October 2005

Currently Listening
Pain
By Jimmy Eat World
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The Baltimore Marathon : 3 hours, 26 minutes

It was a gorgeous day for running, and I started off pretty strong. The GEICO pace group I linked up with really helped, and Keith and Mark were disciplined enough to click off the miles at a 7:38 pace. We ran around Ft. McHenry and I held my right hand to my chest thinking about what had happened there more than two centuries ago. As we passed mile 13, I prayed that my knee would hold up, since just two weeks ago, thats when it gave out. Everything was ok until mile 16, when we hit the rolling hills of northeast Baltimore.

-I have never endured anything harder than those last 10 miles.

As I sucked wind like none other, my drive would rise and fall with the rolling hills, but as soon as I saw the 24 mile marker, my spirits lifted knowing that I only had 20 minutes to go. But soon after that...it happened.

-My left knee gave out.

It started talking to me halfway through, but I thought nothing of it. By the last two miles, it was screaming so loudly that I couldnt think of anything else. I had to let the pace group pull away, and ended up running at a 7:38 pace, to limping it in at around a 12min pace.

I can barely walk right now, and it takes more than a concerted effort getting in and out of my car. I dread Monday, when my 10min walk to class will probably take half an hour.

BUT IT IS OVER...I made it in 4 minutes under my goal, and man life feels good.

At the very least, I can look back at this and say that I did something that most don't want to do...can't do...or even think about wanting to do (?) =)

....but this is just the beginning. They say people peak 10 years after they start running. Here we go...

-a heartfelt thanks to Bob. I wouldn't of made it those last couple miles without you.

body:           completely destroyed. rest and recovery is in order
mood:          super lifted! I made my pace.
motivation:   time to switch gears and hit the gym