September 2010
2 posts
tell me what you are
i’ll tell you what to
August 2010
3 posts
July 2010
6 posts
it’s amazing how a note from my father can disarm me completely. am i an emotional hostage? perhaps. that said, that he was the one to remember my name day today and to send me a note wishing me a good day, at the end of the day- expressing sorrow that i haven’t called them.
everything comes to a boil at the same time. or perhaps i have enough ingredients in the pot finally for it to...
Personal Best - Caffeine - A Legal Performance... →
fortytwopointtwo:
I’ve been using my Googling skills to research feeling weak (okay, as my brother calls it, PANTY) when I’ve run or worked out since I gave up caffeine.
Here’s the weird part: It’s been over a month and I totally don’t miss coffee/lattes/or any of the other high octane drinks I used to ingest. I have an amazing espresso maker sitting idle.
I miss the vicious, heart pounding...
Where is my mind
FINALLY ate at candle cafe. i feel like a bad vegan for it taking so long for me to be on the UES and remembering to eat there. Food was delicious- wonderful iced coffee too. I had a salad with quinoa and tempeh and it was just all around delicious. It was a nice day off from running, although my last 2 runs (Sunday & 2hrs ago) were crappy. I blame the weather. I need to figure out a way to...
June 2010
16 posts
it’s amazing how from one day to the next i can have such a different feeling after running. yesterday i felt flat out awful and struggled to make 3 — i hesitated to even put 3 miles in my log because of how awful it felt. and yet today, despite dry heaving in the middle of the run, i did the same loop and felt fine. tired, sure- but fine. i need to spend some time icing tonight and...
the increase in mileage is catching up to me. that or the hotter weather. i struggled to do 3 today. i stopped at the asics store and looked at a pair of their quad shorts that have 4 pockets. only 1 of the pockets has a zip pouch in it, but the guy at the store told me that people keep their GUs in there. i’m curious about the mechanics of them. i wonder if they actually stay in while...
i keep sleeping on my phone and turning off the alarm. at 6am it’s super bright and hot. i come home drenched. i’m trying to up the mileage again this week and still take 2 days off, but it seems hard to get more than 4.5 in before work. astoria is starting to bore me. i run from the destination of the park to a certain avenue to a certain avenue— blah.
did just over 8 today and it felt okay. the proverbial 3rd lap was the toughest part, but every so often i would just smile and it would get easier. i was moving slow mainly to make sure i could really run that long. i also tried my first GU today 45min into the run. it was disgusting. i thought i could just eat a little at a time but the sweetness was overwhelming. i finally just squeezed it all...
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i had one of those embarrassing runs this morning that involved dropping my shorts in an alley and then running into a bagel shop and begging to use the bathroom. of course i was exactly half way out from home when all of this happened and was at the mercy of any business open at 6am. i finished the run and felt fine.
that said, my day both started and ended with a handful of crab chips. i just...
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6.5 today. exhausted. i chased a man in a red shirt for the first thirty minutes. stopped and got a smoothie on the way back to the subway. pulled off my heart rate monitor and shoes and am back in bed now. a shower will happen later.
i went to the running store on 3rd ave in midtown yesterday on a whim. i got out early from work for summer fridays and met up with a friend for lunch. afterwards, i decided to just walk down to 59th and enjoy the weather and saw the running store. i’ve felt so-so about the asics i’ve been running in recently. i gave the gt 2150’s to my sister after coming to terms with not being...
i had a scoop of the vega powder this morning after running. i hope to not be hungry all day like i was yesterday. it was absolutely miserable trying to stay fed.
asthma attack on the greenway today. dry heaving by the water made me feel like a drunk. but maybe i’ve just been watching too much of the wire recently. the run was so-so. i don’t even care about the mileage. i did 45min- with some walking and stopping to stretch and drink water. it was a bad day for breathing, even at 7am.
i’m house/cat sitting for friends while they’re in alaska. last night i went over and decided to take advantage of them having a tv. i saw that the oslo meet was being broadcast and turned it on. i got to see lagat set the american record in the 5000. it was amazing to see the group run- it was close until the end.
i woke up at 7am to see that it was above 80 already. i have to...
if it is 85 at 11pm, i cannot win.
3 today was tough. i have to figure out when to eat because it was my stomach that was bothering me the entire time. i’ve been remiss and have had more carbs recently— i think i need to eat some more salads and veggies. i know it gets easier.
May 2010
22 posts
yesterday i did 5 miles. i thought the weather was going to play a larger factor in the run, but i felt okay. i waited until 8 to head out. my knees and achilles hurt for the first two miles, but then it went away. i’m icing today and taking the day off. i’m impressed that i went from basically couch to 5 miles in 3 weeks. i’ll drop down in miles this week and build back up. it...
3.25 yesterday felt okay. i used the inhaler that i just got earlier in the day. i did the first dose of the flovental last night before running. i read about the side effects and am a little concerned about some of them. mainly the behavioral side effects. we’ll see what happens. my knees still hurt. i am definitely taking tomorrow off and going to do something easy on saturday. i think...
one knee hurting? i could handle that. BOTH knees hurting for all 3.78 miles? god it was miserable. i stopped to stretch, massage, walk periodically; even tried to experiment with my stride to feel better. i split between running on the road and on the sidewalk. the former felt like having a death wish, but the asphalt felt better for obvious reasons. now i’m icing and stretching. i think it...
Finally bought some vega. Shit is expensive but I’m hoping to just add it to my breakfast fruit smoothies to help keep me full longer than an hour. Hunger is a constant state now.
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just under 3 miles in a bit under 30min. great run. i’m amazed that i’m able to do this after being up till 5. 2 hours of sleep later, i’m awake and ready to go. i know that today is a busy day for me, but it feels good to know that i’m an animal enough to just get up and take care of this. i finally felt today as though the training has ben paying off. i was going faster,...
i am sore and tired and really looking forward to a day off from training tomorrow. i fell asleep with an ice pack on my knee, woke up with it next to my face. at least i didn’t try to eat it.
good news! after feeling like a potato since yesterday’s run, i went and mapped the run. after discovering that it’s 4 miles and not 3, i feel much better. take that heart!
dominik suggested listening to radiolab’s show on limits. i said no just out of fear from accumulating more podcasts (i’m up to 22 that i haven’t listened to, most of them an hour long). but...
i am finding it hard to exist at the upper heart rate limit i set for myself. i can exist happily 4bpm higher than what 85% is for me, but i know that i shouldn’t. i’m hoping that in another week or two this will sort itself out and my heart will handle itself better at the speed i want to go at. i almost wrote the speed at which i want my heart to go at which may also be applicable...
definatalie:
I wish someone had told me when I was a kid that it was ok to be quiet, to enjoy my own company, and to observe instead of speak. Maybe life wouldn’t have turned into a giant charade; trying to be extroverted drives me into anxious frenzies.
have you read party of one? it talks about how different cultures pressure us to be social and not loners.
got my heart rate monitor today. the polar ft7. i hemmed and hawed; the guy at paragon was very nice and finally i made a decision. he was decidedly not trying to sell me on anything. the price difference between that one and the ft4 was small, so i figured i’d get the more advanced one. i programmed it, put it on when i got home for 15 seconds. burned 3 calories cleaning the toilet, haha. i...
today’s 1.5 was easy. stopped to stretch, walked a little, ran a little more and walked some more. i ate some heavier carbs today. liquid breakfast and lunch and then some ravioli, sauce and fieldroast sausage for dinner. my stomach is confused by it. back to smoothies and salad tomorrow.
for the more boring stuff first: today was supposed to be 3 miles, but i did closer to 4. googlemaps tells me that i stopped at 1.2, which is at the park, to stretch. i picked it back up and wanted to stop again a little while later, but decided to keep through it and felt fine. i did stop a few minutes later to stretch again. before then i had felt some pain in my left achilles where the bump is...
cleaned my room yesterday. took 5min for me to trash it completely looking for my running tights. come on may- i should not be desperately seeking warmer clothing like this.
April 2010
4 posts
