He gives half his check to orphans, orphans with diseases

Yea so today's run was rushed, I slept in later than I wanted so everything was kinda rushed all day. Which ended up not being needed because I had plenty of time later on. I started out way too fast I didn't bring my watch, and I don't know the first mile mark but it was probably sub 7 but the second mile was probably the worst i've felt since I started running again.

2 miles no time-

"The world is full of willing people, some willing to work, the rest willing to let them." Robert Frost

I'm aware thats a really cheesey quote, but I still thought it was funny, so deal with it.

Somehow I'm still out of shape

I don't really have much to say today, I was busy at work, and tired for my run.

I went 19:48, I started out way too quick and paid for it at the end, but I got it in and thats all that really matters.

Monday morning, early.........

So after not being able to sleep all night after my 5 hour or so "nap" on Sunday, at 5:30 I decided to give up on trying to get any sleep so I went out for a run. I planned on going short like 15 minutes or so because I wasn't sure how the conditions were going to be because of the snow during the day on sunday. The loop I normally run has sidewalks, and people in Burlington are far to lazy to actually shovel them like their supposed to. I started off with 2 half mile loops near my house, and the time after that was 6:53, and I was feeling good(which I was expecting to change since thats too fast for me right now) so I decided to go do part of that short loop I've been doing. The snow was pretty annoying even if it was only a couple of inches, my feet were sliding a lot since it was mostly backroads, which weren't entirely down to the pavement yet. Overall it was a good run though, with the exception of toward the end my left achilles was tight and bothering me.

Not sure of the distance but I finished up at 22:54, I followed it up with some light stretching, and I actually cooked myself some brekafast after my shower. It's been a while since I've had a real meal for breakfast. Now the rest of the day I'm gonna have to fight off the urge to take a nap and see if I can stay up till 9 and just go to bed then and get on a normal sleep schedule.

"The best way out is always through." - Robert Frost

Weekend

Alright well this weekend was a total bust, both Saturday and Sunday. The lack of sleep Thursday night had me totally drained all day Saturday despite a decent nights sleep Friday night, I was fighting the urge to nap all day because I had a work event at 6:30 to 1 that night. My work event came and I seemed to get some more energy and felt fine, I planned on leaving around 10 or 11, but time went by quick and I was having fun so I stayed till the end. That really caught up to me on Sunday, I kept waiting to wake up some more all day, eventually fell asleep at 4:30 maybe, I'm not sure what time, but I didn't wake up till 9:30 and that was it for me, I didn't go to sleep the rest of the night. So it was a very lazy weekend, and I didn't get any running in so it sucked.

"In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: It goes on."
Robert Frost

The Longest Day

Well let me just say today sucked. I thought it was going to work out pretty well, I knew I was going to have to get up at 5am so I started feeling a little tired last night around 9 so I went to bed and actually fell asleep. Then I woke up at 12:30 and couldn't fall back to sleep, I dozed off around 4 or 4:15 and then got up at 5 and got my day started. I had some work stuff in Boston in the morning, and just was non stop till I got home around 9. No meals or snack in between but I was still somehow feeling ok. I went out for a quick 15 minutes or so, I didn't want to bring my watch , actually I didn't really even want to go, but Carl called me out, so I had to.

15 minutes or so(same loop as always) I felt fine, wasn't trying to push it and wasn't really worried about anything, I just wanted to get it done so I could cook dinner, which was good by the way.

"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great."
-Mark Twian

Day 2

Wow two consecutive days, I'm almost impressed. I really didn't have motivation to run at all today, I'm not even sure why. I planned on going a bit longer but when I got out there my right calf tightened up a bit so I just did that short loop I had been doing, and did some stretching after.

15:02 on a loop just shy of 2 miles

"Enduring habits I hate…. Yes, at the very bottom of my soul I feel grateful to all my misery and bouts of sickness and everything about me that is imperfect, because this sort of thing leaves me with a hundred backdoors through which I can escape from enduring habits."-
Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science, 1882

Getting back in shape

Well I've been convinced finally to start writing a blog about my running. I've been in and out of shape a few times since graduating college in 2004, but never in good shape. I started running again a couple weeks ago, and was just gonna keep track of how many days i've run in a row then people got annoying about it because it was an annoyance to them when they checked my profile i guess? Lavalley, I'm talking about you deleting me from your buddy list. I'm not 100% on getting back into racing shape and start racing again, which i'm sure JJ will not like. Maybe the blog will help, but it's not just gonna be running stuff, I'll probably throw in other stuff too becuase chances are I'll get lazy again and stop running once the weather gets good, even though that doesn't make sense.

1/23/08
Ran for 20:21 which is the longest run of '08 I had been averaging just over 15 minutes a day, which is pretty pathetic, but my pace is better than I expected I'm under 8 minutes per mile haha.

"What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say”
-Ralph Waldo Emerson