Well today I was supposed to do 7 miles of tempo work, but my ankle was really bothering me, so I only got 4 miles in at an easy pace.
As I stated in my last post, I am a real manly man. The last of a dying breed as they say. But compared to my good friend and living companion,Badass Baby Nicky Lombardo, I'm a real sissy. Nick Lombardo can build an entire room, walls and everything, in 3 hours. A project like that may take me 3 days and a team of immigrants. But anyway, I went to the store with Nick earlier tonight. Nick was in the market for a new pair of construction boots. I've never even put a pair of construction boots on, and Nick is buying multiple pairs. As I watched him look for a worthy pair of stompers, I got to thinking... Am I really as manly as I think I am?
Things that make me manly:
I took Man Class in High School
I started the biggest chapter of NOMAAM in the United States
I love to drink beer
I can grill almost anything
I only own one thing from the Gap
I've never plucked my eyebrows
I know how to use a hammer
Things that make me a sissy:
I don't eat meat
I put my hair in a "ponytail" when I go to bed
I listen to a few chick singers
My top 3 : Clooney, Knoxville, Mcconaughey
I'll let you decide.
Monday, March 10, 2008
Sunday, March 9, 2008
Tough Race
I've kind of fallen out of the whole Long Island race scene these past few months, mostly for financial reasons... Most races are like 20-25 bucks, and for some time I was doing one or two races per weekend.. it all added up. But there are certain races that I make a point to run in... The Great Cow Harbor for instance, and this weekend was the Kings Park 15K, a race that for lack of a better word kicked my ass last year. In my opinion, and from what I overheard at the race, the Kings Park course is the toughest road course on Long Island. Most of the race is run up long, gradual hills, making it great practice for the Providence Marathon. I don't have much of a problem running up hills... It doesn't put any extra strain on my body, but it does slow me down a bunch, so thats something I need to work on. I also need to work on using the momentum of running down hill to give me extra energy. Besides being a really tough course, the weather yesterday kind of sucked. The torrential rain on Friday left the course a mess, and about 50 minutes into the race the rain started up again. It was the perfect air temp though, so that was good. Despite the weather, the turnout was more than double then last year... I think like 600 people finished the race. My time of 1:41:34 was good enough to put me in 508th place. I'm not too concerned about that though, I killed my time from last year and this race is also a Long Island Track Championship Race, so it attracted the most elite runners.
The marathon training is going really good. I did somewhere around 51 miles last week. During the race yesterday, I was running alongside an older gentleman, and we got to talking.. I was telling him about my training program and also about the streak, and he reiterated something that I've been kind of concerned about. After a long run, it's recommended that you take a day off to give your body the proper recovery time you need. I've been running 2 miles the day after a long run. I feel fine doing it, but it may be doing more harm than good, so I'm just gonna keep it at one mile for those two days a week. A really slow mile actually.
Today I attended the Huntington St. Patricks Day Parade. I got absolutely tanked. I am writing this at 930pm on a Sunday and I am disgustingly hungover. Whomever had the idea to start St Patricks Celebrations weeks before the actual day should be given a medal. Seriously.
If you have seen me in the past couple of weeks, you may have noticed that my hair is pretty long (refer to a few posts ago to learn more). I like having long hair, but it has taken a toll on my sleeping patterns. Between 4 and 6 times a night, my hair gets in my eyes and wakes me up. Quite annoying. I tried sleeping with my hat on, but it just fell off. I tried sleeping with a bandanna on, but the knot in the back of it bothered me. I asked a few girls that I know what they recommend, and the general consensus was to "put it in a pony tail." Now, if you know me you know that I'm a manly man, even though I don't eat meat. But I do love beer and football. And women. So the thought of me putting my hair into a "pony tail" was not only emasculating but also insulting. But after weeks of interrupted sleep, yesterday I finally decided to find a rubber band and see what I could do. I didn't think I even knew how to get my hair into this formation, but I suppose after babysitting my cousins for a few years I learned a thing or two about finagling a rubber band into hair. So I gave it a whirl last night, and I'm happy to say that I had a great nights sleep. I'm putting this out in the open because I don't want any of the jerks I live with to start spreading rumors that I have a pony tail and I'm metro. Not that theres anything wrong with that, Adam.
Talk to you tomorrow.
Talk to you tomorrow
The marathon training is going really good. I did somewhere around 51 miles last week. During the race yesterday, I was running alongside an older gentleman, and we got to talking.. I was telling him about my training program and also about the streak, and he reiterated something that I've been kind of concerned about. After a long run, it's recommended that you take a day off to give your body the proper recovery time you need. I've been running 2 miles the day after a long run. I feel fine doing it, but it may be doing more harm than good, so I'm just gonna keep it at one mile for those two days a week. A really slow mile actually.
Today I attended the Huntington St. Patricks Day Parade. I got absolutely tanked. I am writing this at 930pm on a Sunday and I am disgustingly hungover. Whomever had the idea to start St Patricks Celebrations weeks before the actual day should be given a medal. Seriously.
If you have seen me in the past couple of weeks, you may have noticed that my hair is pretty long (refer to a few posts ago to learn more). I like having long hair, but it has taken a toll on my sleeping patterns. Between 4 and 6 times a night, my hair gets in my eyes and wakes me up. Quite annoying. I tried sleeping with my hat on, but it just fell off. I tried sleeping with a bandanna on, but the knot in the back of it bothered me. I asked a few girls that I know what they recommend, and the general consensus was to "put it in a pony tail." Now, if you know me you know that I'm a manly man, even though I don't eat meat. But I do love beer and football. And women. So the thought of me putting my hair into a "pony tail" was not only emasculating but also insulting. But after weeks of interrupted sleep, yesterday I finally decided to find a rubber band and see what I could do. I didn't think I even knew how to get my hair into this formation, but I suppose after babysitting my cousins for a few years I learned a thing or two about finagling a rubber band into hair. So I gave it a whirl last night, and I'm happy to say that I had a great nights sleep. I'm putting this out in the open because I don't want any of the jerks I live with to start spreading rumors that I have a pony tail and I'm metro. Not that theres anything wrong with that, Adam.
Talk to you tomorrow.
Talk to you tomorrow
Tuesday, March 4, 2008
spare some social change?
I woke up a bit more sore than usual today for some reason. I did 11 miles yesterday with no problem, but right after it I did some stupid yoga / aerobics combined into one workout, and I think I did more harm than good. My shoulders were hurting and my quads were burning. But a few hours into the day and I was fine. I actually did a mile run before I went to work today, for the sole reason of me being up at 6 and not being able to get back to sleep. So I figured I would just go get a mile in real quick, but because of my stupid soreness it turned out to be like an 11 minute mile. Whatevs.
I read an article last week, which can be found here, that basically says more and more Americans are switching or dropping out of the religion that they were raised with. To me, this is awesome. And it doesn't really have much to do with religion. I'm not going to preach my religious views in a blog, but I will come out and say that I am a total fan of social rebellion and change. So when I hear that more than one-quarter of American adults have left the faith of their childhood for another religion or no religion at all, I think nothing but positive thoughts. I love hearing that more and more people are going against what their parents probably forced them to believe as they were growing up. I doubt that we'll ever see a real revolution like our parents saw in the 60's, but little things like this do give me some hope.
I read an article last week, which can be found here, that basically says more and more Americans are switching or dropping out of the religion that they were raised with. To me, this is awesome. And it doesn't really have much to do with religion. I'm not going to preach my religious views in a blog, but I will come out and say that I am a total fan of social rebellion and change. So when I hear that more than one-quarter of American adults have left the faith of their childhood for another religion or no religion at all, I think nothing but positive thoughts. I love hearing that more and more people are going against what their parents probably forced them to believe as they were growing up. I doubt that we'll ever see a real revolution like our parents saw in the 60's, but little things like this do give me some hope.
Monday, March 3, 2008
you can do it
So I had some computer issues last week, including a small fire that sent an electric volt through my hands, but 65 bucks later my computer is fixed, and have no fear, and the streak is still intact. I did the 10 miler on Tuesday, and I felt pretty good after it. I'm having a hard time getting my marathon pace to where I need it to be, but I have a 2 months from tomorrow to adjust. I wound up doing like 52 miles last week, including some small hills and some sprints. I'm right on track. More miles and bigger hills this week.
When I got back from running today, I had a missed call from a friend of mine. I called her back, and she said "Whatcha doing" to which I replied "just got back from a 12 mile run." "Your crazy, I can't even run 1 mile, and your always out running like 20 miles."
I get this response from people alot, espescially after the Disney Marathon last year (my favorite response after the marathon: "I don't even like driving 26.2 miles, why would you run it?". But back to my original point. I'm convinced that anyone can run one single mile.
In 2004, I had a pretty bad skateboarding accident. I shattered my kneecap, and messed up the rest of my leg pretty badly. I was in a stupid brace for a while, then a bunch of rehab. I couldn't do much of anything for like 5 months. Needless to say, I gained a ton of weight. The jerk doctors were like "you might not be able to run again, and forget about skateboarding." Well, I got a job working for a skateboarding company, so that took care of the skateboarding part. I hated running in high school, so the running part didn't really phase me. But, the massive amount of weight I put on did. So I decided, in like November 2005, that I was going to run the Long Island Half Marathon in May of 2006. I started out with a one mile run, if you could call it that. It was more like a one mile half jog half walk. But slowly, I added a mile here and a mile there, and the next thing I know I was ready for the Long Island Half. Since then, I've run well over 2000 miles, lost a bunch of weight, put some of it back on for sure, and can honestly say that running has changed my life, for nothing but the positive.
So I say, go run a mile. You might be surprised at what your body can do. If a fat boy like myself could go from barely moving to running marathons, you could definitely run a measly mile.
love
When I got back from running today, I had a missed call from a friend of mine. I called her back, and she said "Whatcha doing" to which I replied "just got back from a 12 mile run." "Your crazy, I can't even run 1 mile, and your always out running like 20 miles."
I get this response from people alot, espescially after the Disney Marathon last year (my favorite response after the marathon: "I don't even like driving 26.2 miles, why would you run it?". But back to my original point. I'm convinced that anyone can run one single mile.
In 2004, I had a pretty bad skateboarding accident. I shattered my kneecap, and messed up the rest of my leg pretty badly. I was in a stupid brace for a while, then a bunch of rehab. I couldn't do much of anything for like 5 months. Needless to say, I gained a ton of weight. The jerk doctors were like "you might not be able to run again, and forget about skateboarding." Well, I got a job working for a skateboarding company, so that took care of the skateboarding part. I hated running in high school, so the running part didn't really phase me. But, the massive amount of weight I put on did. So I decided, in like November 2005, that I was going to run the Long Island Half Marathon in May of 2006. I started out with a one mile run, if you could call it that. It was more like a one mile half jog half walk. But slowly, I added a mile here and a mile there, and the next thing I know I was ready for the Long Island Half. Since then, I've run well over 2000 miles, lost a bunch of weight, put some of it back on for sure, and can honestly say that running has changed my life, for nothing but the positive.
So I say, go run a mile. You might be surprised at what your body can do. If a fat boy like myself could go from barely moving to running marathons, you could definitely run a measly mile.
love
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