Sunday, January 30, 2011
1 24 11 to 1 30 11
7,14,10,8,0,12,16. 67 miles. 242 this year, but who really cares about me steadily regaining fitness when you could instead be reading about people writing about playing nintendo ?
Wednesday, January 26, 2011
nintendo/bo jackson. i got right to the point because im pretty sure you dont care about what i ran today when you could instead be posting about what you did before you knew about beating off. for those you who have decided to come back from 1987, 10 miles. 8x200. 35,34,36,33,35,34,35,31. i was all over the place with the times, most likely due to missing so many morkouts. it was good to get the legs turning over. as always, i could breathe ok but the legs were pissed at what i made them do. this was a very small step, but at least it was in the right direction.
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
Sunday, January 23, 2011
1 17 11 to 1 23 11
61 miles this week. feel better than a month ago. probably just jinxed it. nintendo chat link.
Saturday, January 22, 2011
friday 11 miles
saturday 14 miles
for those of you looking for the nintendo chatroom (hammetts, bonk), its on the january 20th post. i think its cool that it turned into a video game forum (implied nc), so feel free to keep it going. i should point out that i am the best at tetris.
saturday 14 miles
for those of you looking for the nintendo chatroom (hammetts, bonk), its on the january 20th post. i think its cool that it turned into a video game forum (implied nc), so feel free to keep it going. i should point out that i am the best at tetris.
Thursday, January 20, 2011
late night pisgah epicness, demon showdown avoided, nintendo chat room
wednesday totals- 3.5 miles at baker st, 6-7 miles snowshoe running, 2.5 hours hiking
i got out of work late but made it to baker st in time to cool down with the regular everyday normal crew. that night and into thursday morning, me and sontag and rock (english teachers cringe at my disregard for grammar) set out on a snowshoe trek in pisgah. we parked at gregs, borrowed some gear, then got started. the trails were groomed so the going was easy at first. that changed drastically when we got to the ridge trail where the toughest climbing was. we had to break trail and the snow was knee deep in a few spots. the hardest part was the thick layer of ice on top of the snow. we had to work hard to punch through it, then when we would lift our feet they would get hung up on the huge pieces of ice. i fell over a lot, much like uncle paulie in rocky 4, 'oh ! oh, damn!' (i tried to find a clip of this but i came up empty). surprisingly, it didnt bother me much (the terrible footing, that is. but i am extremely upset about not finding that rocky 4 clip), i think because i wasnt concerned with how fast we went. i was not expecting to see any other human tracks out there, but someone had come in through kilburn and linked up with the ridge trail. the boot prints were very small, and looked fresh. i was amazed at how long this persons stride was. something about it didnt add up, but greg assured me that it was probably just a demon or ghost of some sort that was haunting us. i guess in the end it decided not to kill us. i think the mountain lions felt the same way, so that was cool. the ridge trail seemed endless. it took 2 hours and it usually takes 30 minutes. we finally got done with that trail and got back onto the groomed snow highway. it was easy running the rest of the way. (it took 3:42, i have run it 1:21) we got back to gregs around 1230 am and he had chromium replacement beverages for us. i got home in time to get 5 hours of sleep, but it felt like 5 minutes. i was dead at work today but i didnt care. thats the price i pay for an epic adventure.
i got out of work late but made it to baker st in time to cool down with the regular everyday normal crew. that night and into thursday morning, me and sontag and rock (english teachers cringe at my disregard for grammar) set out on a snowshoe trek in pisgah. we parked at gregs, borrowed some gear, then got started. the trails were groomed so the going was easy at first. that changed drastically when we got to the ridge trail where the toughest climbing was. we had to break trail and the snow was knee deep in a few spots. the hardest part was the thick layer of ice on top of the snow. we had to work hard to punch through it, then when we would lift our feet they would get hung up on the huge pieces of ice. i fell over a lot, much like uncle paulie in rocky 4, 'oh ! oh, damn!' (i tried to find a clip of this but i came up empty). surprisingly, it didnt bother me much (the terrible footing, that is. but i am extremely upset about not finding that rocky 4 clip), i think because i wasnt concerned with how fast we went. i was not expecting to see any other human tracks out there, but someone had come in through kilburn and linked up with the ridge trail. the boot prints were very small, and looked fresh. i was amazed at how long this persons stride was. something about it didnt add up, but greg assured me that it was probably just a demon or ghost of some sort that was haunting us. i guess in the end it decided not to kill us. i think the mountain lions felt the same way, so that was cool. the ridge trail seemed endless. it took 2 hours and it usually takes 30 minutes. we finally got done with that trail and got back onto the groomed snow highway. it was easy running the rest of the way. (it took 3:42, i have run it 1:21) we got back to gregs around 1230 am and he had chromium replacement beverages for us. i got home in time to get 5 hours of sleep, but it felt like 5 minutes. i was dead at work today but i didnt care. thats the price i pay for an epic adventure.
Wednesday, January 19, 2011
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