Let your boyfriend deal with the dealers.

March 11-17

Prepare yourselves for a thrilling post. Five runs (T, R, F, Sa, M), 25min each. Only one yoga class again. Extensive run analysis reveals that I was running about 3.5-3.6 hilly miles. That means I'm going too fast, but at least at these paces increased speed does not seem related to increased pain. Fences:Neighbors::Stretching:Runners. I hope. Slabbaj Shout-Out: To the seven man squad who gave The Company a 4th place finish at The Human Race on Sunday. Less Prestigious Accolades: To Matt Mascioli for deciding not to quit his fantasy baseball league despite his shaky performance at the draft.

I Thought She Said Maple Leaves

March 4-10

Five runs (T, R, F, Su, M), 20min each. Only got to one yoga class this week, but it was perfect intensity and I can able to replicate some of the poses at home. While the runs are this short it seems like 5 is enough to build strength. That first 20min effort was difficult. The last two were substantially easier. Some of that also has to do with warmer weather and, on Sunday, my first group run since September. Sometime soon I hope to join that Slamfest Coalition.

Obamadarbadar

In an Obama-esque feat this evening, Matt Mascioli led a tenuous coalition a completely new direction: Kevin's Greenway Slamfest 2008- Reverse. Despite early mudslinging (er, kicking) and impassioned debate, the group held together and opposed Hillary Clinton throughout.

Tom Church handcuffed to the bumper of a state trooper's Ford

Chunked out a short run with Mattmas this morning- no thanks to Nick or Sherman. Legs appreciated the shortness- given the bushels of mileaj yesterday and the day before: back to back renditions of Kevin's Greenway Slamfest 2008 (back to back = one day then the next day, Biz. Not to say which day). The Slamfest is shaping up to be a solid little- dare I say perfectly medium sized- run. That said, neither Matt/Nick nor myself have any idea how far it actually is or a close estimate of the amount of time it takes to run it. Good, though, to have a nice run with a name to help get through the last snow-covered weeks until Harp-Cee-Dar reopens in all it's 50 minute glory.
Came home to some awesome baked oatmeal and the sweet sounds of the Not A Brarkfest Mix Mix.

Still Out There/With The Coffee Stains

Some of you may have noticed: it's March. I hadn't, really, since today was one of the five coldest runs I've done this winter. Which means that my capacity for noticing the date has been replaced with cautious giddiness; I've done more than five runs this winter.

January - Early February

I kept up the circuit training pretty well about 4x a week for most of January and early February. Then Hamline moved very far away when it got colder in mid-February and I had about a week or 10-days off. During the circuit training I ran a couple 800s as fast as 3:20. These were usually the last of a set 4-6 that started out around 4:10. My longest continuous run was 7:45 when I did 2x1600 with 5min walking recovery on the treadmill. My fastest mile was 7:05. As long as I started out slowly enough, I never experienced any lasting pain in my lower abdomen or groin.

February 19-25

Decided I should start running outside, since that's what I'm most motivated to do and the streets were not too icy. Ran five times (T, R, F, Su, M) for 10min each time. On Saturday I finally had the massage I've probably needed since TCM 2004. I'll try to make that a regular treatment during this rehab.

February 26-March 3

My plan calls for adding 5min to my run each week, and I am nothing if not an honorer of plans. Ran five times (T, R, F, Sa, M) for 15min each time. Also went to two yoga classes, which helped to loosen things up and were not as intense as the core-blasting yoga I was doing last summer.

The pain is still present, which is worrisome. So far, though, it seems like therapeutic pain. Also, I'll ice. I'm proceeding with a lot of caution at this point, but it feels great to be living out these American late night blues.