Easy Gait

Monday 22
Training Run 11:30:00 AM - 7.20 mi @ 51:50 (7:11 pace)
Training Run 6:00:00 PM - 7.20 mi @ 52:24 (7:16 pace)
Tuesday 23
Training Run 5:45:00 AM - 7.20 mi @ 53:02 (7:21 pace)
Training Run 6:15:00 AM - 5.20 mi @ 36:22 (6:59 pace)
Wednesday 24
Training Run 11:15:00 AM - 5.00 mi @ 34:55 (6:59 pace)
Running Workout 6:00:00 PM - Aerobic Capacity Intervals - - 10.00 mi @ 53:35.00 (5:21 pace)
Thursday 25
Training Run 6:20:00 AM - 7.20 mi @ 53:35 (7:26 pace)
Training Run 6:15:00 PM - 6.00 mi @ 40:17 (6:42 pace)
Friday 26
Training Run 6:30:00 AM - 6.00 mi @ 39:37 (6:36 pace)
Training Run 11:30:00 AM - 7.20 mi @ 52:12 (7:15 pace)
Saturday 27
Running Workout 7:45:00 AM - Aerobic Capacity Intervals - - 10.00 mi @ 52:05.00 (5:12 pace)
Sunday 28
Training Run 8:40:00 AM - 20.00 mi @ 2:22:13 (7:06 pace)
TOTALS
Running: 107.2 mi

Finally able to hit a mileage target. Three weeks to go and the training is coming along.

That's all I got.

Posted by Ryan at 9:18 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Paul Newman, one of my favorite actors, died today of lung cancer at 83.

He is mostly my favorite actor for The Hustler and The Color of Money. I know, I know, Tom Cruise was in it, but that was before he became a couch jumping Sci-tolo wack job. Martin Scorsese directed it and it has the sweetest shots of pool with a great soundtrack. Just a great story with a great cast made back when you didn't need huge explosions or trucks turning into robots to make a good movie. TCOM is the most quotable movie ever made and he has two great quotes and my favorite movie quote of all time. "You study the watch . . . while I study you." and "Pool excellence is *not* about excellent pool." are two I love to quote all the time but the one I quote still every time I get some money at a race is ...

"Money won is twice as sweet as money earned."

Damn straight it is. Would you rather earn 1000 bucks grinding out your job for a week or win 1000 bucks in a huge kick with two foreigners hammering out the final 200m of a 10k all out. If you are reading this log I already know what your answer is, but it proves the point. The sense of victory is heightened when money is involved and if you take the largest prize it is all the sweeter.

I also was captivated by Paul Newman because he raced a kick ass corvette GT in SCCA races. Kind of sweet when an actor doesn't just act like a cool race car driver, he actually is a cool race car driver. He would dominate at Road Atlanta and Sebring.

Sweet Corvette No?

He also started a business and gave all the profits and proceeds to charity. 200 million dollars total to charity. That is walking the walk when you say you are going to help out. How many actors do that today? He wouldn't talk about it much though because he knew you gave back like that because it is right thing to do, not to look like philanthropist.

Here's to a super cool guy who will be missed.

That's all I got.

Posted by Ryan at 7:36 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Sometimes, despite your best efforts to the contrary, training does what it does and you get pretty fit. Take tonight for example. I have been working way too many hours and missing way too many runs to do the workout tonight at the level of effort it took.

Only one interval was the good news.
The bad news was it happened to be a 10 mile interval with alternating pace efforts at 5:30/5:12 pace.

Mario and I alternated every 800m and tried to focus on keeping the effort smooth and constant. As with every workout of this type, some miles were better than others but the whole workout was one big positive. It just didn't feel as hard as it did the first time I did this workout in 06.

Here is the data from the watch:

1. 5.30
2. 5.14 10.45
3. 5.29 16.14
4. 5.13 21.28
5. 5.26 26.54
6. 5.11 32.06
7. 5.31 37.38
8. 5.14 42.52
9. 5.30 48.22
10. 5.12 53.35

As I am sure Uncle Fire would agree, it was a good time.

That's all I got.

Posted by Ryan at 9:51 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Things have been crazy busy, to say the least. Work has just been a bear with a lot of OT and travel and the running has suffered a bit. I have been constantly about 10-15 miles below my goal mileage and it is pretty frustrating. About twice a week something comes up which stops a run. There is no way around it either. I have been doing a good job of waking up in the morning and getting at least that in but between fire team meetings and proposals it has been an absolute challenge to get the second run in. The good news is the career is going well and I have yet to miss a workout, but one of these days I will not be able to dash out at 6:00 and make it to the workout. Lets hope it doesn't happen but I know it will.

On to running.

Just to let everyone know, New Balance Boston won the reach beach relay!!!
The first mixed team to ever win the race outright. We were in a fun race with Hello Kitty from JP. The crazy thing is we started at 4:00 on Friday and finished at 2:00 pm on saturday and only won by 5 minutes. For 22 hours we traded leads back and forth all through the night. It also helped that our women were a bunch of killers who not only didn't mind racing against guys, they relished it. I thought a few of them wanted a piece of me after it was over. The whole team was strong and we needed every second of every mile. It was great the way NBB stepped up and adjusted to some team misfortune. We had people scheduled to run 20 running 27 an people scheduled to run 20 running 14. The whole thing slid sideways for a little while but that is all part of the fun. Adapt on the fly. The SUV smelled like a giant fart at the end but no one really noticed. To all of you reading this, if anyone still does, put a team together for RTB and run it. It is just too much fun.

We had the bestest most funnest team in the whole race.
Here is the band of happy marauders about 5 minutes after we were done.

It also about 5 minutes before we jumped in the ocean. It was chilly but felt good on the knees.

Next on the agenda is the army ten miler.

That's all I got.

Posted by Ryan at 9:32 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)