Looks like someone gifted me a 3 month acount. Thanks, whoever you are. (laughs)...right when I need to be focusing on writing my thesis and finishing my Ph.D.
The running's been fun. Still though, after a month's break, my limbs are all tense-like, and the joints are hating on me. Still, I'm kinda looking forward to my first day of speedwork come next Sunday, schedulin' 5-7 miles at 5:30 splits.
I need to get better on the bike though. My run is decent, but my bike is abyssmal. In races where I'm off...
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I need to get better on the bike though. My run is decent, but my bike is abyssmal. In races where I'm off...
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Ugh, its time to start the long road of training towards the Boston marathon again. (sigh) I'll miss sleeping in.
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limonene:
Its not difficult. Just spread the training out over 6 months.
MWF, 5 miles each, or about 50 minutes. Run relaxed. You can run slower than walking so long as you're still running. The idea in the beginning is to get that aerobic capacity. Walking in the beginning is ok, after a month or two, you'll be able to do the whole 5 mi. w/o stopping.
Then on Sat or Sun, do your long run. This starts as your longest run. Say, 5 mi. And it is sloooowww. Easy.
Every week, add 1 mile to your long run, or 10 min, whichever comes first. When you get to about 12 miles (this is after 2 months, mind you), its a lot, one weekend doing 10, the next 11, then 12; you need to add rest weeks.
So from this point, you add 2 miles to your long run on alternate weekends, and on the ones in between you run half the distance. So your weekend runs would go like 12 mi, 6, 14, 7, 16, 8, till your long run is 22-24.
Then you can run a marathon no problem. And they have them everywhere. I even bet there's one near you in Western Sahara
Here's a link for a training schedule: http://www.jeffgalloway.com/training/time_goal.html#20
MWF, 5 miles each, or about 50 minutes. Run relaxed. You can run slower than walking so long as you're still running. The idea in the beginning is to get that aerobic capacity. Walking in the beginning is ok, after a month or two, you'll be able to do the whole 5 mi. w/o stopping.
Then on Sat or Sun, do your long run. This starts as your longest run. Say, 5 mi. And it is sloooowww. Easy.
Every week, add 1 mile to your long run, or 10 min, whichever comes first. When you get to about 12 miles (this is after 2 months, mind you), its a lot, one weekend doing 10, the next 11, then 12; you need to add rest weeks.
So from this point, you add 2 miles to your long run on alternate weekends, and on the ones in between you run half the distance. So your weekend runs would go like 12 mi, 6, 14, 7, 16, 8, till your long run is 22-24.
Then you can run a marathon no problem. And they have them everywhere. I even bet there's one near you in Western Sahara
Here's a link for a training schedule: http://www.jeffgalloway.com/training/time_goal.html#20
rys:
Sleeping in? How could you ever give that up? Are you, like, one of them crazy people? FREAK!!!! If you were here, in my lounge room, I'd probably point at you some 
And the season is done....
Its been a wild ride, this year, all fulla crazy.
Did my first sprint triathlon. In costume (see pics).
Did my first olympic distance triathlon (Wildflower).
Did my first half-Ironman (Big Kahuna, Santa Cruz).
Ran the Boston marathon, setting a 3:02 personal record.
Ran the Long Beach marathon (last Sunday).
Started dating a girl (gasp!), who technically shouldn't exist, but...
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Its been a wild ride, this year, all fulla crazy.
Did my first sprint triathlon. In costume (see pics).
Did my first olympic distance triathlon (Wildflower).
Did my first half-Ironman (Big Kahuna, Santa Cruz).
Ran the Boston marathon, setting a 3:02 personal record.
Ran the Long Beach marathon (last Sunday).
Started dating a girl (gasp!), who technically shouldn't exist, but...
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faux-Burning Man
For those of us who couldn't make it out this year, my friend Shannon and I thought it'd be pretty swell if we got all of us together on Sunday night for a beach burn on Blacks beach till dawn, and for those who came, we all had ourselves quite a shindig.
First, just trying to bring over 150lbs of eucalyptus wood down...
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For those of us who couldn't make it out this year, my friend Shannon and I thought it'd be pretty swell if we got all of us together on Sunday night for a beach burn on Blacks beach till dawn, and for those who came, we all had ourselves quite a shindig.
First, just trying to bring over 150lbs of eucalyptus wood down...
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Europe
Its a crazy, beautiful place. And traveling with one's family without fixed plans for 3 weeks is very, very stressful. Its good to be back, and back on a regular schedule.
And oh what a schedule I have, these next few weeks.
Three weeks from now is one of the American Chemical Society's national meetings, this one up in San Franicsco, where I'll be...
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Its a crazy, beautiful place. And traveling with one's family without fixed plans for 3 weeks is very, very stressful. Its good to be back, and back on a regular schedule.
And oh what a schedule I have, these next few weeks.
Three weeks from now is one of the American Chemical Society's national meetings, this one up in San Franicsco, where I'll be...
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Frolicking in the chemistry, physically drained from too many days swimming, biking, and running.
Today was an 11 mile run @ lunch in 92F. And now a run of a different sort, mixing chromium doped w/nickel to add a vinyl iodide to an aldehyde, which, if it works well, will make me a very, very happy boy.
But above and beyond the usual, have you...
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Today was an 11 mile run @ lunch in 92F. And now a run of a different sort, mixing chromium doped w/nickel to add a vinyl iodide to an aldehyde, which, if it works well, will make me a very, very happy boy.
But above and beyond the usual, have you...
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sghater:
you're going to miss nerd prom? i'd rather be in france too : )
limonene:
I'll be there on the Saturday, I think. My plane up to SFO leaves Satty evening, but since I need to be in the downtown anyway, why not make a day of it?
Well then, that was fun.
No better way to spend a couple weeks than preparing for an advancement to candidacy exam.
I passed, and oooooohhh, its sooo good to get back to work. Its frustrating compiling the last 9 months work and a proposal, getting all excited about the work you're planning to do. Except you can't do it.
So the exam went well enough....
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No better way to spend a couple weeks than preparing for an advancement to candidacy exam.
I passed, and oooooohhh, its sooo good to get back to work. Its frustrating compiling the last 9 months work and a proposal, getting all excited about the work you're planning to do. Except you can't do it.
So the exam went well enough....
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alcoholickitten:
Congrats on the pass!
You are a crazy running machine.
You are a crazy running machine.
sghater:
It was your birthday! I hope it was good, sorry I haven't talked to you in a while. and no i didn't steal bone....but i still haven't read it so..... you willl get it back, i promise : ) hope you've been doing well, sounds busy. same here. i think i might explode. that would be nice....
cya
cya
Ghost in the Shell SAC
If i hadn't run 8 miles and then swam a mile today, I'd bike over to the dragonlounge to get my monthly breaks fix.
Damn training program!
Instead, I'm at least left the consolation prize of finally getting to see the Ghost in the Shell Stand Alone Complex miniseries.
My mother and brother happended to be in town today, all...
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If i hadn't run 8 miles and then swam a mile today, I'd bike over to the dragonlounge to get my monthly breaks fix.
Damn training program!
Instead, I'm at least left the consolation prize of finally getting to see the Ghost in the Shell Stand Alone Complex miniseries.
My mother and brother happended to be in town today, all...
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alcoholickitten:
whoa, your mom wants to move to so cal?!?!? Yikes.
I'm glad someone else is enjoying coooking with quinoa!! I just discovered this fine grain myself within the past year and I adore it (with its cute little spiral)
I'm glad someone else is enjoying coooking with quinoa!! I just discovered this fine grain myself within the past year and I adore it (with its cute little spiral)
sghater:
i have the second season of GITS on some compressed format of one type or another on a DVD if you would like to borrow it...
how was LA? i'm sorry i couldn't go, plans this weekend necessitated me not missing class this afternoon like i originally planned. i hope you guys still had a blast!!
ps-have you read the invisibles by grant morrison? i think you would like it.
how was LA? i'm sorry i couldn't go, plans this weekend necessitated me not missing class this afternoon like i originally planned. i hope you guys still had a blast!!
ps-have you read the invisibles by grant morrison? i think you would like it.
San Francisco here I come!
Its been far too long.
Flying up with my friends Dave and Tim to run the Bay to Breakers, see my parents, and experience as much of SF as I can.
Sleeping is optional, of course. Should I continue my fine tradition of going out the night before the race till dawn? Dave and Tim are up for it, but...
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Its been far too long.
Flying up with my friends Dave and Tim to run the Bay to Breakers, see my parents, and experience as much of SF as I can.
Sleeping is optional, of course. Should I continue my fine tradition of going out the night before the race till dawn? Dave and Tim are up for it, but...
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The Wildflower triathlon's olympic distance: 1.5K swim, 40K bike, 10K run.
But I had to get there first.
Annually held up in the hills of Paso Robles, CA, its one of the more famous triathlons in the country, especially w/the collegiate championships. They also do a long course thats about a half-Ironman distance (1.2m Swim, 56m Bike, 13.1m Run). That and its a big campout...
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But I had to get there first.
Annually held up in the hills of Paso Robles, CA, its one of the more famous triathlons in the country, especially w/the collegiate championships. They also do a long course thats about a half-Ironman distance (1.2m Swim, 56m Bike, 13.1m Run). That and its a big campout...
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tomg:
You da man. I think about hoppin on my bike everyday when I am at work but by the time I get home the only thing I feel like ridin is the couch.
sghater:
congrats on the race dude!! my grandparents live in paso robles. i will in fact be up there the friday and saturday before the evil eddy party.
glad your experience was over all good!
glad your experience was over all good!
Wild Miles 2006
183 mile relay. High altitude desert. 95+ degrees.
Can I say fun?
Walking into this race, I was surprised to find there were only half the number of teams from the previous year, only 50. Hmm, last year's 115 F heat musta scared them off. As it twas, it was down to our NaClicious running team vs. the almighty LA frontrunners (a...
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183 mile relay. High altitude desert. 95+ degrees.
Can I say fun?
Walking into this race, I was surprised to find there were only half the number of teams from the previous year, only 50. Hmm, last year's 115 F heat musta scared them off. As it twas, it was down to our NaClicious running team vs. the almighty LA frontrunners (a...
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sghater:
how did it go? i got my internet working finally : )
we missed you at shannon's on sat, it was fun. i got sick from the jello shots though and vaguely remember stumbling home and having the worst night of sleep ever. no more alkeeehall for this girl!
we missed you at shannon's on sat, it was fun. i got sick from the jello shots though and vaguely remember stumbling home and having the worst night of sleep ever. no more alkeeehall for this girl!