run #114 - CRC happy hour

Back to a good running/drinking place! Colorado Running Company (much, much better than the Boulder Running Company, FYI) has their happy hour runs on Wednesday, but doesn't seek out the publicity of Quinn's. The runs are harder and the beer is cheaper (free Bristol and various cheap wines). OK, the food doesn't match up (tonight we had goldfish and doritos) but you're talking to someone who has never eaten at Quinn's so I don't care. The best thing is the organization, there's nobody in charge. Just show up, run, and drink. No long wait to get a beer, no boring hour long ceremony that nobody listens to. Good times! Still no AD pub run in this town, but this is as close as it gets.

Start time: 6:00PM
Distance: 4.7 miles
Time: 34:57
Pace: 7:26 minutes per mile
Weather: mid 50s; windy

run #113 - Quinn's 1 year anniversary

As has been my usual MO lately, went on a decent run timed to end at Quinn's to take advantage of their cheap Laughing Lab. Quinn's started out as a fun group of people who liked to run and drink, but over the past year it's gotten lamer and lamer as the CO Springs young professionals have used it as a resume builder. It's the same course every week, starting and ending at the same place, having the same beer and food, yet somehow it takes 50+ volunteers to make it work? I think soon they'll start charging cover, but until then I'll continue to end Tuesday runs there to take advantage of the cheap Bristol. On a good note, over the last mile or so I ran Impotent DryHumper into the ground!

Start time: 5:55PM
Distance: 5.7 miles
Time: 45:55
Pace: 8:03 minutes per mile
Weather: mid 40s; windy, steady rain

ID

Got my new super top secret nuclear football ID pass to get onto Schreiver AFB today. Good thing I ran into a tree at the last DIM hash, made for a really great picture on the card.

try again

Try this link to the CoTex pics. Not sure why the last one isn't working, it works on my computer.

black and white

So, after completely drinking myself into the ground these past few days, I'm looking ahead to a weekend with a difficult mountain 50 mile trail run, followed by hiking up two Colorado 14ers.

pics

First of many CoTex pics can be seen by clicking here. These ones were taken by the female version of Follow the Bleeder. Yes, I was able to finish an entire double bacon cheeseburger from the Purple Castle!

quick escapes

This is one of the best outdoor articles ever written, if only for the super-expert advice they got for the piece.

run #112 - Red Rock Canyon

Headed over to Red Rock Canyon open space for a good run this afternoon. Winds were gusting up to 50mph all day today, but it was fairly calm in the canyon. Planned on going for 45 minutes, ended up going for almost twice that. Even did some scouting for a future Kimchi trail.

Start time: 6:30PM
Distance: 10 miles
Time: 1:20:24
Pace: 8:02 minutes per mile
Weather: mid 50s; windy

run #111

Easy morning run around the neighborhood. Felt tired at the start, but was able to pick up the pace towards the end.

Start time: 6AM
Distance: 6.0 miles
Time: 46:32
Pace: 7:45 minutes per mile
Weather: mid 40s

this city is going to the dogs!

Men's Health magazine has named Colorado Springs the most dog friendly city in the USA! Denver was #6. Austin was #7. Pittsburgh was #19 (but we still have the #1 NFL team).

good times!

I got retardedly drunk with Davey Crotchit last night! Quinns, to Tony's, to Sam's, to Quinn's, and back to Tony's! Woohoo!

quote of the day

"If you always achieve all your goals, you're setting you're goals too low."
-Matt Carpenter

A very close second place goes to my buddy Paul, who was giving me some Leadville tips while running down Barr Trail the other day (yeah, CRUD likes to talk a lot of shit!):

"Remember, it's not only how good you do, it's how poorly your friends do."
-Paul S.

HAHAHAHAHA!!!!

How do you stop a clown from smiling?


Hit him in the head with an axe!

john butler trio

Good lord, if you're any kind of fan of decent music at all, rush out to your local independent record store and pick up JBT's new album. Might be their best album yet, and that's saying something since all their albums have achieved "ROWYCO" status on the brownie ranking scale. I could burn copies, but it'll take two CD's, and very few of my loyal readers have ever sent me enough tunes to justify that, so the most I could do is a "best of" and you'd be missing out on whatever I hafta cut off.

Air Force weekend

Push ups: 57 (needed 51)
Sit ups: 57 (needed 51)
1.5 Mile Run: 8:48 (needed sub-9:48)
Waist measurement: 32 inches

Total it up and I got a 100% for my first AF PT test. Highest score in the squadron, and one of only two people to get a 100 (the other was a chick, and we all know how the military relaxes standards so females can take part). I asked when we take the exercise bike portion of the test, and I think I offended some people. AF folks thought I was from another planet for the run time, which I thought was mediocre. Might try to break the eight minute mark for the next test.

Also got to do some infantry-type stuff yesterday. Movement to contact, react to ambusy, land nav, stuff like that. Good times!

Sugarloaf mountain

Bagged another named peak on the Wyoming road trip. Medicine Bow Peak was too snow covered for an attempt, but as a nice consolation prize Dani and I were able to scramble up Sugarloaf Mountain. Celebratory PBRs and stogies on top, followed by more celebratory beers back in the tiny town of Centennial, WY (population: 100; number of bars: 4).

Dani's pics of the trip can be seen here.

the loop

Good luck to all the Austinites running the Rogue trail series loop tomorrow!

bolder boulder

Great shot of the cheering section for Bolder Boulder this past weekend. Dani's pics from the epic roadtrip can be seen here.

love the new hobby!

run #110 - No Name Creek PR

Another Thurs tempo run up Barr trail, pushed it pretty hard and ended up setting all-time PRs to the top of the W's and to No Name Creek. Finished the W's in 23:50 and got to No Name in 38:40, my first time breaking the 40 minute barrier. I'm now doing my workouts on Barr Trail significantly faster than I did the Barr Trail Mountain Race last year, and I ran pretty good there last year.

Start time: 6PM
Distance: 6 miles
Time: 1:13:43
Pace: 12:17 minutes per mile
Weather: mid 50s