A bunch of old-timers gathered today in Shorewood to join Schmeck on his last run as a single man. We headed out from Schmeck's place around noon and went for a short and easy (for the most part) loop. This run sure brought back some memories. It didn't take long for Brewer to get up in the front, even though he hasn't run a step in a long time. Not far into the run we got to the bottom of the hill and Schmeck suggested we race to the top. Brewer was the first to react and Schmeck, Carlos and myself followed right away. Soon I started regretting my decision but I was too late to back out. It was an epic 3-way battle to the top with me, Schmeck and Carlos all leaning for the line and eventually declaring it a tie. I was spent after we reached the top, which wasn't surprising considering I hadn't run for over 2 weeks. We took things easy for a while and had the second race of the day with less than a mile to go. This time it was on flat ground between two half mile markers. Carlos was the first one to take off with Schmeck following. I didn't feel like I had another hard effort in me so I stayed back but then decided that I couldn't accept losing to Brewer and Maltas. I caught up and easily cruised to the bronze medal. We were back at Schmeck's place shortly after and called it a day. Not a bad way to send Schmeck off to married life.
Saturday, July 12, 2008
Friday, July 11, 2008
Thursday, July 10, 2008
Thurday, July 10, 2008 [0M]
Flew to Milwaukee this morning for Schmeck's wedding. I wasn't planning on running but the day long bachelor party I wouldn't have time for it anyway.
Wednesday, July 09, 2008
Tuesday, July 08, 2008
Monday, July 07, 2008
Sunday, July 06, 2008
Saturday, July 05, 2008
Week Recap (29 June 2008 - 5 July 2008) - 0 Miles
Not much to write about this week. I did some biking and swimming but for the most part I was just being lazy.
Saturday, June 28, 2008
Friday, June 27, 2008
Thursday, June 26, 2008
Wednesday, June 25, 2008
Tuesday, June 24, 2008
Monday, June 23, 2008
Sunday, June 22, 2008
Saturday, June 21, 2008
Week Recap (15 June 2008 - 21 June 2008) - 46 Miles
After this week I'm officially calling it a season. I've been debating about it for a while and thinking about attempting a track race or two but at this point I'd be fooling myself if I thought I could run anything decent. I must say that this has been a somewhat weird season. I was in great shape in February but after getting injured I never quite managed to come back. The injury was definitely a setback but since I was running healthy for 4 months after that I think I can't really use it as an excuse. For some reason I was running mediocre workouts and races and just couldn't get things to start clicking. I actually started wondering if there was something physically wrong, maybe I was battling an iron deficiency again or something like that. It's not that I'm not looking for excuses, I just find it strange that I was running 80 mile weeks and feeling out of shape. In any case, I'm glad to put this season behind me and I'm more than ready for some recovery time.
Saturday, June 21, 2008 [0M]
I flew in to Vegas for the weekend and don't really expect to do any running. It was impossible to run during the day with the temperature up to 108 degrees and of course I was too busy having fun at night.
Friday, June 20, 2008
Friday, June 20, 2008 [0M]
I had to head to the airport at 5:30PM and didn't manage to get in a run in beforehand. I came back home from work early enough but I didn't want to run in 95 degree weather.
Thursday, June 19, 2008
Thursday PM, June 19, 2008 [6M]
Redwood Shores. Out again from Club O in the afternoon for some extra mileage. Felt pretty crappy, perhaps running in 95 degree weather this morning took something out of me.
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