Tuesday, May 30, 2006

Selling Out, Creepily

May 30

8mi, 55:49 (6:59/mi): Isles etc from LPDB. Ok run but legs sore, and left shin very tight. Felt like I was limping the whole way but Biz said it didn't look too bad. Which could be a kiss of death...

There was a lot of Woods to Water, a lot of Phil Schrader...

May 29

4.5mi (Brian Kraft 5K): 16:43. Still hot, but much better than yesterday. Basically no warm up since Lake Nokominotgonnaworkhere is impossible to find. Wasn't at top-end, but legs were obviously a tad on the fatigued side. SCRC owns Collegeville from here on out...

May 28

13mi, Woods to Water (Leg 7): 3.6 in 19:18ish (5:30s), 3.1 in 16:54ish (5:27s), 3.7 in 21:20ish (5:55s). Fun, as always, for Slab City's first W2W victory (7:26:48). Many have explained that it was "hot", and some have employed "hell" as a measuring stick. I think that the best illustration of the conditions is the fact that Hooley and Jaime were able to have a sincere and literal discussion ascertaining precisely which level of Dante's Inferno included the 2006 Woods to Water Relay. Lake Superior felt wonderful.

Week: 57. Hooley - did Biz have to run less than me to earn your pizza or just hit "in the 70s"? And may I lay claim to any unclaimed pizzas that may now be floating about?

May 27

3mi, 21:53 (7:18/mi): Pre-Meet Loop. Ugh. Shin much better but legs still empty...

May 26

No Running. Lots of Ice. Meager assist with Weissenborn's Beer Release.

Monday, May 29, 2006

W2W

3 x hot as hell. 2 x new coffee mug. (Thanks Schrades!) Little sore today. Need to get a long run in this week. Not going to happen today though.

Thursday, May 25, 2006

Flat Broke And Busted...

May 25

9mi, 1:04:21 (who knows. there were a ton of stretching/crying breaks.): Limpy-Loop. Running is horrible. Curse you, Hooley of the Nights!!!!! Stat For Schrades: The 4,000,000 ibuprofen perscribed for tomorrow will be the most I've taken in one day by approximately 3,000,084. I think. That's more math. 1 x Jamba Juice post-run.

Wednesday, May 24, 2006

Damn, Dude

May 24

15mi, 1:39:33 (6:38/mi): Murphy. Great run over extremely hilly trails, running most of the hills hard and thus doing little else. Possibly logged the first ever 0, 0, 0, 6,000,000 in Arb-Scoring, only this wasn't in the arb. Still have most of a bug in the left eye, and ate 4 or 5 more. But there was plenty of room left for picnicking.

Sorry sorry sorry

Not like I've been busy. Just lazy about posting.

I was on the Biz train last night. The day before I ran Isles with Chapel. Tonight I've got a big date with Tom to run some trails until at least our heads expand dangerously and the words perhaps are only slant rhymes.

Tuesday, May 23, 2006

Easy-Peasy, Japanesey

May 23

9mi, 1:05:47 (7:19/mi): Wherever Biz Took Us. Fun run from LPDB, finishing by sliding through the sculpture garden fountain. Then most of the food and all of the ice cream. Phil was there, running and the like. Oh, and that site that used to happen all the time but then stopped happening for a while for reasons that should probably be explained in a corner of some kind...that got updated today and will continue to be updated until I start to panic about the Bar Exam. So there.

Monday, May 22, 2006

Too Much Rock For Just One Hand

May 22

8mi, 55:26 (6:56/mi): Washington-Lake. Was going to go 10, but what would that prove? Legs felt tender but strong. Only three things in this world worth a solitary dime: old dogs, children and watermelon wine. I'd add that ice baths and Sox wins are worth at least a nickle each. And I'd shell out a penny or so for that new Sunset Wheat from Leinies. So far, BarBri classes certainly not worth $2500...let's hope that tomorrow they start serving beer and watermelon wine, showing baseball and offering ice baths. Stats for Schrades: Six Days Until Woods to Water Throw-Downaj!

May 21

4mi, 29:39 (7:25/mi): Morning Loop. Easy stumble with Schrades. Legs sore, but infinately better than after the marathon. Evidently the key to effective recovery is playing lots of washers the night after the race. Pending...

Week: 87mi. Boo. Yah. Bedar.

Saturday, May 20, 2006

Slab City Sweeeeeepaj

May 20

23mi, 2:15ish (raceaj): Syttende Mai 20mi Race. Madison to Stoughton. 1:55:42 - felt grrrrreat for 2nd place in the Slab City 1-2-3 sweep. Ran first 11mi with Schrades then caught Hools for miles 12-17 before he decided it was time to run fast. 5:38, 11:41, 6:01, 5:56, 6:01, 11:40, 6:01, 11:47 (59:10 for 10mi), 5:51, 5:16 (catching Hooley, but I'm still an idiot), 5:44, 5:45, 5:37, 5:37, 5:42, 5:39, 5:37, 5:39. Schrades threw down for 1:58:33 and 3rd place. Tortamasi was hitting 6:15s/6:00s until "all of a sudden" a 7:30 cropped up. Strange how that happens. Very encouraging race on a beautiful day...then Mickey's, Slab City Brew and venison.


May 19

PM: 4.5mi, 30:18 (whatever): Morning Loop in Madison. Somehow Hools convinced me to run 4+, instead of the much more reasonable 1-2mi that had been planned after the drive from Columbia. Followed by waitress flirting.

AM: 5mi, 36:56 (slooooow): Nuke Loop. Hardly running. Legs broken. Recover fast.

Thursday, May 18, 2006

Legs feel Dunn

Ug. Standing all day is not conducive to running. Managed to drag muh ass around Isles after work.
Ran on Tuesday too. Should run more. No question about that. Easier to run during school.

Hooley/Church - 1, St. Louis - 0

May 18

10mi, 1:07ish (wkout): 3up, 4x1600m @ Thractate, 90s R, 3down. 5:19, 5:18, 5:17, 5:13. Good workout, especially considering mileage over the last few days. Just harder than threshold, but a good consistent effort in the heat and the wind on the WashU track. Strangely inspiring to be the fat kid on the track with H-town...don't think about Saturday, don't think about Saturday, don't think about Saturday...

Wednesday, May 17, 2006

She'll Do The Trick, Ya Know

May 17

PM: 12mi, 1:19:01 (6:35/mi): Rockbridge. Good run with Hooley's and Shakespeare's company. Pre-emptive excuses for tomorrow's workout: 1) Rolled Ankle, 2) Falafel, 3) Involves Running. Now, about that town-painting...

Froggie Goes A-Courtin'

May 17

AM: 4.5mi, 30:25 (6:46/mi): Campus Loop. Barefoot running on soccer fields. Somehow, despite the fact that this run definately happened and certainly qualifies as a "run", there is still another, longer, "run" planned for the afternoon.

May 16

16mi, 1:39:54 (6:15/mi): MKT into Land's End. Aborted workout with Hools. 3up, 4mi in 22:03...then some slower running. Legs felt very heavy and stiff, but the NYT assures me that it's not because of lactic acid. Good to know...

Monday, May 15, 2006

Magical Mystery Tour NE

North East Minneapolis Magical Mystery Tour. No idea how far or where exactly we went. Not terribly far though. Good to, ya know, run again.

Goin' Down South, Goin' Down South

May 15

8mi, 48:08 (6:01/mi): Zipper. Ok, back on track a bit here. Some food in the stomach, but there was coffee too so things felt normal. EST in 5:09 without much effort. Time to be Hooley's whipping boy for the next week...

Sunday, May 14, 2006

It's Been A Good Week For...

May 14

5.25, 35:44 (6:48/mi): Franklin-Lake. Body felt like it was still recovering from the week's coffee-infusion and general dearth of sleepaj. Obviously not a good week for running, but it has been a good week for Collin Lawrence.

Week: 41mi

May 13

6.5mi, 43:38 (6:43/mi): Half-Zip. Blahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.

May 12

No running. Felt like I'd been in school for twenty years.

Thursday, May 11, 2006

Full-Tank of Gas, Half-Pack of Cigarettes, Dark, Wearing Sunglasses

May 11

5.25, 34:06 (6:30/mi): Franklin-Lake. Exams Done. Papers Remain. Hit It.

Wednesday, May 10, 2006

The Road of Excess Leads to The Palace of Wisdom

May 10

Tom's Exam Prep: Pop-Tarts, Bananas, 1/3 Box Cereal, 4-5 cups of coffee, 4-5 sticks orange gum, half-box of Cheez-Its, 2 Sierra Mist's, Cooookies, etc...

BUT

John Daly's Tournament Prep: 4-5 Diet Cokes, 6-7 Cigarettes

Not sure what my point is. Didn't run today. Not sure I found the aforementioned palace, either. Hoping to fall back on sometimes managing to be clever and having a nice smile...

Tuesday, May 09, 2006

Meeting With The Bobs

May 9

14.5mi, 1:45:18 (7:16/mi): To LPDB + Base 10. Real easy run but good to get in some miles that I really don't have time to be getting in. Plus we talked about how funny it is that Team XO is anemic, so at least it was time well spent. Then later - after the Red Sox smoked the Yankees 14-3 - I went to...wait for it...Target. So now I'm smoking a cigarette like I was Josh Beckett in the Bronx and contemplating the Met Council like I was Peter Gibbons over at Initech.

Monday, May 08, 2006

but instead...

I just ran around isles and came home. Nice day-dreamy run.

Delayed After-Effects...

May 8

9mi, 1:01:10 (6:48/mi): Gehring's and Back. Ugh. Legs felt totally drained. Up here, I'm already gone...

and he may be a lazy man...

Haven't really done jack in the way of running since Tuesday's long run. Pissed around at LSCC. Ran Iron Bridge the next day. Spent the weekend visiting Jill, Coach T, etc and didn't do the thing where I make sure to squeeze a run in here or there. Tonight's looking good for a 10 miler or so, though. Mostly just typing this so that I feel more compelled to run later.

Sunday, May 07, 2006

Midnight Train to Georgia

May 7

5.25mi, 35:52 (6:50/mi): Franklin-Lake. Back to the cities, rolling on the river, only much different from related river rolling the night before. Good easy run to cap the week. Legs felt a little stiff from Friday's slip and the grooving. Self felt vaguely as if there had been a garter on its head the previous night.

Week: 60mi

SLABBAJ SHOUT OUT: To Andrew Schroeder, Lake Monona 20K Champion in 1:11:26. Started out at 5:50s, (18:06 at 5K), dropped some local pretenders and negative split the whole shebang!

May 6

8mi, 50:41 (6:20/mi): Stone Mountain Park outer loop with Bucy and Senner. Hotter day and a very hilly loop, but the two Slab City members were able to handle it easily. Unsurprisingly, Team XO made repeated requests that the pace be slackened despite the fact that they had wanted to complete a tempo run on this particular morning. Team XO claims to have added on for 13mi after Slab City grew weary of their complaining, but that seems unlikely given the difficulty they had in completing the inital 8. Either way, Team XO left an awful lot to be desired on the dance floor that night. Slab City, on the other hand, were collectively desired somethings. At least one bridesmaid may need stitches...

(Congratulations to Bryan and Katie!)

May 5

12mi, 1:23:44 (6:59/mi): Stone Mountain Park trail loop + inner loop. Beautiful run with Bryan and Graham on the trails for most of it. Slipped badly during a stream crossing and wrenched most of my upper right leg...but fortunately Paul offered plenty of medicaton that night.

May 4

No running. 1xHousing Policy Final. 1xFlight to Atlanta. 1xAbysmal Fooseball Performance. 1xBBQ at the Lord's place.

Wednesday, May 03, 2006

sort of starting to piss me off

Done with classes for the semester. Thought about going for a run. Am falling back on the excuse that I cannot currently get into the apartment.

Chapter Two!!!!!!!!!

May 3

12.5, 1:17:53(workout): 2mi WU, 3x1600m @ T, 90s R (5:29, 5:26, 5:23), 6.5mi @ 6:00 pace, 1+ CD. Solid workout, especially considering windy conditions. Had planned another couple tempo miles and two more threshold miles but hamstring seized a bit down on river road. Too bad, because I was on ab-so-lute cruise control. Feeling stronger of late, which is a nice change from weak and stupid. CAQ: "I don't offer happiness?!? I offer happiness! James Caan doesn't offer happiness!"

Tuesday, May 02, 2006

Get a Haircut and Get a Real Job...

May 2

12.5mi, 1:25:40 (6:51/mi): Ran to LPDB then around Isles. Easy run but strangely distracted on the way over. CAQ: Scalp massage.

Be like the Squirrel

May 2

"Take all your problems and tear 'em apart..."

Back on the job today. Great run this afternoon. Simple plan: run away from the apartment for one hour. Turn around. Run back. And that's what I did (Greyhound Bus Driver voice). Reasons that the run was good. 1) weather was great 2) had a good chuck of food in the tummy, one might say too much at first. 3) great focus. I was able to keep my brain thinking about the first hour without getting horribly depressed thinking about having to run all the way back. Plus, about 40 minutes in, I started thinking about trying to run the next hour (:40 - 1:40) really smooth, smooth. So I had these nice overlapping 1 hour segments. Pissed around on the trails on the west side of the river on the way out and back. Wound up over by the Ford plant. 200 layoffs this summer with the plant rumored to close in '09. There are two liquor stores across the street from it.

Got hissed at by two militant geese. Separate incidents. Senner, WTF?

Monday, May 01, 2006

This One's For You, Tracy!

May 1

9.5mi, 58:18 (6:08/mi): Base 10. Ummm, it's short. Felt quick but not hard with easy conversation the whole time. Or, as easy as conversation with donkeys can be. Good to get it in after two late study nights and early morning exam. Training this week will be directed towards maximizing attractiveness before heading to BD's wedding. Current Attractiveness Quotient: Not.