Used to run with this chick back when I lived in A-town. Logged a lot of miles in the greenbelt with her, that's for sure. Think she's still the president of the Hill Country Trail Runners too.
Meredith
Meredith
Wednesday, February 28, 2007
Rage!
Woohoo! Just heard on the radio that Rage Against the Machine, one of the best bands ever, is getting back together for a tour! Hope it leads to some more albums. Audioslave was pretty cool, but they just couldn't do it for me like Rage does.
run #57 - Quinn's
Good run down to Quinn's. Went from my house, over to the Sante Fe trail, along Fountain Creek, and cut through downtown to the pub. Little chilly, but other than that a great night for a run. Run doesn't include the 2.5 mile stumble back to my house from Quinn's.
Start time: 5:50PM
Distance: 6.9 miles
Time: 53:31
Pace: 7:45 per mile
Weather: 40F; clear skies but you could watch a nasty front moving in over Pikes Peak
Pints of Laughing Lab: 5! Thanks to Lauren for pushing me past my usual limit of 4.
Start time: 5:50PM
Distance: 6.9 miles
Time: 53:31
Pace: 7:45 per mile
Weather: 40F; clear skies but you could watch a nasty front moving in over Pikes Peak
Pints of Laughing Lab: 5! Thanks to Lauren for pushing me past my usual limit of 4.
Tuesday, February 27, 2007
thank gawd for WVU!
'Cuz when you're slumpin', nothing cures that drought like beating the crap out of a shitty team!
HAIL TO PITT!
HAIL TO PITT!
another liquor store gig
Another liquor store just called and offered me a part time job. This one is a lot closer to my house and is in a real seedy part of town. I'd be working alone, and I'm fairly sure I'd be robbed before too long. Not sure I can fit it into my schedule though, especially with the DIM starting up soon.
Kimchi no-show
I'll be unable to make it to the Kimchi hash this week, as I'm required to take my first Air Force PT test and I'm sure I'll be too tired to do anything later that night. Sorry to disappoint everyone.
run #56
Beautiful morning run along Fountain Creek via the Sante Fe trail. Quads still a bit tight from the stair climb.
Start time: 5:30AM
Distance: 6.5 miles
Time: 1:0020
Pace: 9:16 per mile
Weather: 21F, "feels like" 15F, clear skies and no wind
Start time: 5:30AM
Distance: 6.5 miles
Time: 1:0020
Pace: 9:16 per mile
Weather: 21F, "feels like" 15F, clear skies and no wind
Monday, February 26, 2007
register results
Results are now in. My official time was 7:27. Finished 38th overall out of 1445 finishers. 12th out of 182 in my age group. The average time for all finishers was 15:04. Most importantly, I wasn't chicked, as the first female finished a few flights behind me in 7:39!
kimchi mug update
Here's the current list of folks who have paid me.
brownie
Grannylingus
WOP
Fairy Fluffer
Late Nite Drive Trough
Lick My Lincoln
Lady Does Suck
Wet Spot
Bone Sucker
Ass Gagger
Dust Balls
Donnie the Retard
ESPN
Anal Bead Chainsaw
Nuthin' But Net
MILF
If I'm missing anyone, let me know. If you want your name listed on your mug differently than I have it here, let me know. Also, if I hafta put the order in for less than 22 mugs, the price goes up, and then I'll hafta get everyone to mail me more money, which will take a while. So if you told me you want a mug, get me the loot wankers!
brownie
Grannylingus
WOP
Fairy Fluffer
Late Nite Drive Trough
Lick My Lincoln
Lady Does Suck
Wet Spot
Bone Sucker
Ass Gagger
Dust Balls
Donnie the Retard
ESPN
Anal Bead Chainsaw
Nuthin' But Net
MILF
If I'm missing anyone, let me know. If you want your name listed on your mug differently than I have it here, let me know. Also, if I hafta put the order in for less than 22 mugs, the price goes up, and then I'll hafta get everyone to mail me more money, which will take a while. So if you told me you want a mug, get me the loot wankers!
Pikes Peak
Trust no one under 14,000 feet!
If any of yunz are planning on doing the Pikes Peak Ascent or Marathon (or Double, for the super-duper cool folks out there) don't forget that rego is this Thursday! Yup yup, get up early, start the coffee pot, and park your lame ass in front of the computer. Rego opens up at 8AM Colorado time and is expected to fill up within a few hours.
Also, talks are underway with WFC to do a hash starting and finishing on top of Pikes. This'll hafta be a Kimchi hash, since all P2H4 dates for the summer months are already taken. The biggest problem, aside from the extra $10 hounds would hafta shell out to get to the top, is that I'd hafta keep trail to two miles or so, or else we'd have fat hashers collapsing all over.
If any of yunz are planning on doing the Pikes Peak Ascent or Marathon (or Double, for the super-duper cool folks out there) don't forget that rego is this Thursday! Yup yup, get up early, start the coffee pot, and park your lame ass in front of the computer. Rego opens up at 8AM Colorado time and is expected to fill up within a few hours.
Also, talks are underway with WFC to do a hash starting and finishing on top of Pikes. This'll hafta be a Kimchi hash, since all P2H4 dates for the summer months are already taken. The biggest problem, aside from the extra $10 hounds would hafta shell out to get to the top, is that I'd hafta keep trail to two miles or so, or else we'd have fat hashers collapsing all over.
Sunday, February 25, 2007
remember the alamo
Yeah, I was in pretty rare form at the Pikes hash yesterday. Pics can be seen here. Great Texas theme with cheap whiskey during Willie Nelson songs and Full Service dressing up as Anna Nicole Smith!run the register
Had a decent time at the Run the Register this morning. Wasn't really sure how to tackle this race, as I'm not really a stair climber, so I just stuck to my goal of taking two steps at a time for the entire distance. Worked out pretty good, as I finished in 7:29. You get to enter the "elite" category if you break eight minutes, so I guess I did alright. Yeah, so I can add the title of "elite stairclimber" to my resume now!
Quads were on fire towards the top, and I was breathing heavy, and my heart rate was through the roof, but because it was such a short event it really wasn't that challenging. Wasn't sure how to pace myself, and I probably could have gone a lot faster. Definitely a lot easier than the Incline.
Meat did pretty well, finishing in just under 22 minutes. She didn't hammer it like I did though, and she wasted a ton of time by stopping to take pics for other climbers. What a wanker!
Leadville week #13
Pretty decent week, though I'm somewhat disappointed that yesterday's race was cancelled. Three weeks away from the season's first marathon, need to get in a few good 20 milers before then.
Week #13 distance: 40.1 miles
Week #13 time: 6:04:43
Average week #13 pace: 9:05 per mile
Total quest distance: 381.5 miles
Total quest time: 60:37:30
Average quest pace: 9:32 per mile
Average weekly mileage: 29.3 miles
Week #13 distance: 40.1 miles
Week #13 time: 6:04:43
Average week #13 pace: 9:05 per mile
Total quest distance: 381.5 miles
Total quest time: 60:37:30
Average quest pace: 9:32 per mile
Average weekly mileage: 29.3 miles
Saturday, February 24, 2007
run #55 - days off are for pussies
Did the bare minimum today, just wanted to get in 40 miles for the week. Weatherman said gusts of 45 miles per hour, but it felt more like one long sustained blast that made this run fairly miserable. Now I'm about to call Net to see if he's gonna stop by before the hash for a brass monkey or six. Any bets on whether C-4 will let him out to play?
Start time: 11AM
Distance: 7.6 miles
Time: 1:06:41
Pace: 8:46 per mile
Weather: 36F, "feels like" 23F, retardedly windy
Start time: 11AM
Distance: 7.6 miles
Time: 1:06:41
Pace: 8:46 per mile
Weather: 36F, "feels like" 23F, retardedly windy
new PR!
Averaged 5:44 per mile at the Black Forest 20K this morning...
OK, maybe not. The race was cancelled due to crappy weather. Kinda good, 'cuz I felt like crap after getting all boozed up last night, but kinda bad, as I'll probably blow off my run and start drinking for the hash today.
OK, maybe not. The race was cancelled due to crappy weather. Kinda good, 'cuz I felt like crap after getting all boozed up last night, but kinda bad, as I'll probably blow off my run and start drinking for the hash today.
Friday, February 23, 2007
the weekend
Have a pretty active weekend coming up.
After work today it's straight up to Denver. Social Retard is in town to interview for physical therapy school, and I'm gonna show her Sancho's Broken Arrow, a Greatful Dead themed bar on Colfax Ave. Greatest jukebox I've ever seen with bands such as Panic, Keller, Cheese, Galactic, Mule, MM&W, Umphrey's, Hendrix, and, of course, tons of live Dead shows. After that we'll probably tour some of the fine establishments that grace the pages of Modern Drunkard Magazine.
47 floors, 1,014 steps. Should be an interesting challenge, as I'm not a stair climber. But I've been doing the Incline quite a bit lately, so we'll see. No idea on how long this will take, I figure anywhere between ten and twelve minutes. I'm gonna try to do the whole thing taking two steps at a time though.
After work today it's straight up to Denver. Social Retard is in town to interview for physical therapy school, and I'm gonna show her Sancho's Broken Arrow, a Greatful Dead themed bar on Colfax Ave. Greatest jukebox I've ever seen with bands such as Panic, Keller, Cheese, Galactic, Mule, MM&W, Umphrey's, Hendrix, and, of course, tons of live Dead shows. After that we'll probably tour some of the fine establishments that grace the pages of Modern Drunkard Magazine.
Saturday morning it's off to do the Black Forest 20K, part of the Pikes Peak Road Runners winter series. I had to miss the last race of the series due to Air Force crap, otherwise I'd be in the running to win my age group. Bummer. Big surprise is that Social is gonna come down and do this race. She used to be one of those typical Austin hashers who always had a million excuses to avoid any physical activity so I didn't even ask her if she wanted to do it. But she asked about it and is now squeezing in the 10K before bolting back to Denver to catch her flight home for Easy Access's 30th b-day.
After the 20K I gotta bolt down for the Pikes Peak hash. Texas theme, I'm gonna wear some tie-dyed stuff to represent Austin. I can walk to the start point from my house, so I plan on drinking quite a bit and offending all the tee-totalers at the P2H4 once again!
Sunday morning it's back up to D-town with MeatGazer and Bella Cuci to run the register.
47 floors, 1,014 steps. Should be an interesting challenge, as I'm not a stair climber. But I've been doing the Incline quite a bit lately, so we'll see. No idea on how long this will take, I figure anywhere between ten and twelve minutes. I'm gonna try to do the whole thing taking two steps at a time though.
drinking and running
Most people don't bother to read the free newspapers of their hometowns (i.e. the Austin Chronicle) save to find out about what band is playing where or where the drink specials are. I read 'em all the time, the articles in those freebees are usually a lot better than the crap in the major newspapers.
Almost crapped my pants last week when I saw a guy I knew on the cover of the Colorado Springs Independent. I work with this guy a few times a week, one of the very few parolees who seems to have turned the corner. Funny how the state has spent tens and tens of thousands of dollars on rehab programs for this guy, and all that took to change him was a dream. Thank you for paying your taxes, Colorado residents! The story is here.
This week in the CS Indy, there's an article about drinking and physical effort. Mentions the hash, Jack Quinn's, and even a bike pub crawl which I've heard rumors of but have never been able to pin down. The link is here. It keeps amazing me how people talk of the JQ Running Club like it's some sort of religious experience. I was at the very first one, and still go quite often, and I'd say at best it's about 20% as fun as the Austin Duathlete pub runs. Folks there think they're some kind of college student because they ran three miles and drank a pint of beer. It's extremely rare to even see someone minorly drunk there, not quite the case at the pub run or a Kimchi hash.
Anyways, I hold out hope that the bike pub crawl will be awesome!
Almost crapped my pants last week when I saw a guy I knew on the cover of the Colorado Springs Independent. I work with this guy a few times a week, one of the very few parolees who seems to have turned the corner. Funny how the state has spent tens and tens of thousands of dollars on rehab programs for this guy, and all that took to change him was a dream. Thank you for paying your taxes, Colorado residents! The story is here.
This week in the CS Indy, there's an article about drinking and physical effort. Mentions the hash, Jack Quinn's, and even a bike pub crawl which I've heard rumors of but have never been able to pin down. The link is here. It keeps amazing me how people talk of the JQ Running Club like it's some sort of religious experience. I was at the very first one, and still go quite often, and I'd say at best it's about 20% as fun as the Austin Duathlete pub runs. Folks there think they're some kind of college student because they ran three miles and drank a pint of beer. It's extremely rare to even see someone minorly drunk there, not quite the case at the pub run or a Kimchi hash.
Anyways, I hold out hope that the bike pub crawl will be awesome!
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