AM run 4 miles

28.20
14.30 out
13.50 back
done at about 3 after work (about that whole wake up early thing... waking up early sucks)
I was pretty well recovered by this time and only a little exhausted by work

PM run 5 miles

35.51

I forgot to take splits, but i did the second half a bit faster.
I also ended up sprinting for about 200 metres to beat a train at about 13 minutes in. Felt pretty good my legs have been consistantly tired from work combined with running but overall pretty flexable too.

It was really hot today and I forgot to bring enough water or food to work so I ended up pretty heavily dehydrated and unfed. Thus I ended up not running. I did however get my liscense unsuspended for the low low price of 270 assuming I can find some proof that the car has been sold for scrap.

AM run after 6 hours of work

33 minutes
it was very hot as it took place at about 13.00 and very unpleasant.

PM run at about 9:00

38.23

out 18.40
back 19.43

Felt really relaxing to be running in the cool night air after hanging around inside all day. I could feel myself pushing the speed a little more than I wanted to going out so I chilled it out on the way back. I also think that I'm begining to adjust to the new schedule, both for work and for running. I've been meaning to do my morning runs before work, but waking up that early doesn't really appeal to me... Hopefully tommorow I'll make the switch because I dont have to be there until 8

Took today off... not because I kept putting it off until I realized that it was far to late to do the run.

Anyways, I climbed a tree at U of R which counts as cross training... it was a really slippery tree.

10 mile run (this was based on memory, so i really hope we were supposed to do a ten mile run...)

1 hour 17 minutes... the run may have been up to .6 mile short though because its based on measurments my dad made and he doesn't necessarily measure things down to the foot.

When I started out, I really didn't want to be running but by about 5 miles I started to feel pretty good... not really a run fast kind of good, but more of a "its really nice out and this is much better for me than sitting around watching the telly. I started out really tired from axing out stumps of bushes for about 4 hours prior... which earned me 150 dollars by the by.

Two interesting thoughts occured to me on the run. Firstly, if a car were to hit a deer and that deer were to riccochet into someone running breaking their leg, would the driver be held responsible?

And secondly, and this one takes a bit of a story, over a week ago I was running this same strech of road and I see, in the midst of a hard acceleration up a hill, a group of shady looking juveniles being characteristically shady and the like, one of whom I recognize as a kid from youth group at church. The following weekend, my mother goes to church to some prayer service for kids who got killed playing ding-dong-ditch in what I'm told resembled the very beginning and the very end of an epic car chase. Today I see, right next to the place that these kids were glavanting several nights prior, an assortment of crosses next to the road. After thinking about this for a moment I realize that that kid I knew from youth group really was as stupid I had assumed even though he did really well in school. I mean who honestly plays that game once they have a car... although I guess now that I think about it Rob would probably do it.

4 mile AM run (actually in the AM this time!)

30.06 with even splits

Wasn't bad at all, only problem was that I had eaten a little food about 3o minutes before and hadn't had time to digest. Otherwise, no problems.

PM run

5miles 40 minutes.

took place at midnight.

I decided during the run that I've been spending far to much time and energy trying to go to sleep on time and wake up early. And thus I have reached the conclusion that the best way to reduce stress would be to adopt the college position of it doesn't matter how tired I am. Not that that really applies to running, but in terms of work it possible the best position ever, because I will get work done less quickly and therefore get paid more for the entire day. But also, and more importantly, everyone else will have to pick up my slack and thus I will actually do less work.

Ran at about three after work. 4 miles

34.50

It was really hot...

PM run at about 8:30

40.04

It was really nice out, it had just stopped raining and the sun was setting.

Am run... this time at 7 PM... it was really hot... and I was lazy... and I had work... yeah
30.35

I forgot to take half splits, but they were pretty much even, maybe a couple seconds slower coming back. I took this one pretty easy because I had been pushing a nower up and dowb a hill for about an hour and a halfd earlier today which was hardly benficial for the recovery of leg muscles.

AM run that ended up taking place in the PM (3:00 to be exact)

Four miles on the usual 4 mile route

26:25
13:31 out
12:53 back

I think I was burning off a bit of the Ihateworking that had been building up in my muscles since 7:00 this morning.

I felt really good the whole way, I hardly noticed how fast I was going until I got to the half way point.

PM run taking place late in the PM (9:00 to be vague)

5 miles (2.5 out, 2.5 back)

38.33 total
13 Until tragedy struck, and my foot started bleeding from a seam in my shoe wearing through my skin... the bloodstain in my shoe will be forever testament to my folly of not wearing socks.
3.13 barefoot until turn around
22.20 back barefoot

Lesson learned: socks are friends not... things that should not be worn

AM: 4 miles on the same route as last time

31.18
out: 15. 38
back: 15.40

felt better today and was able to relax into it: I was a little dehydrated again so I probably need to work on that in the future.

PM: 5 miles: same route as the morning with an extension to K-mart

35.38
out:17.56
back:17.42

Felt great the whole way

AM: 4 miles as per Mikey's method for mondays... It was actually kind of uncomfortable, although I was dehydrated and undernourished at the time.

Went to Ace Swim and Leisure (they sell pools in case anyone wants a pool... just let me know, I'll pick one up on my run tommorow) and back. It was a pretty flat route on road the whole way.

28.37 total
14.12 out
14.25 back

Got a ride to Oatka park 15 minute warm up to the first hill. up once at a normal pace and three times fast, one normal, twice fast. the normal pace took about 38 to 42 seconds and the fast paces was between 23 and 25. the break was the time i took running down the hill. About seven minutes easy to the second even steeper more exciting hill. first time up fast took 42 seconds. But my shirt was thick and the sun was hot, so I took it off... my shoes were heavy and my destination was far away, so I took them off... and the second time fast without shoes took 36 seconds. 15 minute warm down... The first hill didnt bother me that much, but on the second one all of the earlier stufff caught up to me and really started hurting especially because that hill is brvtal on its own... brutal with a v to make it even more Xtreme

Next week hill workout will be six times up the second hill with push ups and crunches in between.

40 minutes

10 minutes out to the flashy red light and did hill repeats. 3 at a quick normal pace then 3 at a fast pace, one at a normal pace and 2 at a fast pace. The fast hills took about 40-45 seconds. It was a decent slope. ten minutes back.

47.17

Around what is called a six mile loop but has an error of up to a mile. Anyways, I was pretty tired starting out but decided to do five minutes sets of accelerations starting at ten minutes. I was planning on doing one minute breaks, but my first acceleration was up the one big hill on the run and I decided that five minute breaks would be better.

Ten hours of pushing a whirling bladed machination of incarnate death and grass cutting. That better cout as cross-training, because otherwise my day and energy has been put to waste, excepting the 95 dollars I made (my time is worth so much more than that...).

then a run for
1:19:58

Exactly 40 minutes out through the woods to black creek to the back of some gaited community that I didn't know existed. and then 39:58 minutes back home down Union street to Chili ave to Stottle to Stryker and home. Of course, we all know what this means... It means that I am a failure as an explorer and cant find a short cut to some place I've never been to before. It also means that I've gotten pretty good at figuring out which plants hurt when you run through them.

thirty-six minutes, twenty-six seconds, and seventy-five one hundreths of a second.

Memorial park and back with a minor detour down the no-trespassing path (only took about 7 minutes to the end and back). It was very humid and I don't have much energy so I decided to go for a short run today. Stopped to stretch at the park which felt pretty good and I feel great afterwards.

56 minutes

Easy pace to the memorial park, through the service path to wegmans and then around to the second RR crossing and back. It consisted of about two decent sized inclines which weren't really a problem at all. I'm getting alot better at running hills. I barely notice them anymore unless they're really steep.

Didn't have much energy, but it felt good going at a comfortable pace.

I ended up taking today off, partly because it was really hot, and partly because my legs were still a little tired from yesterday.

2 hours 17 minutes and 27 seconds.

Went out Scottsville Chili rd to the school (this took about 33 min) and left on North Rd to corner store and then left till the Greenway which I took until 1:00. Went back the back way and decided halfway that I needed to get more distance in (aka I got lost) so I went pretty far out of the way and ended up intersecting the 3 mile loop by my house.

All in all very fun... I started to feel the heat after about ten minutes but it never got very bad. Felt good until the turn around and only started really suffering at about 1:45

Felt pretty drained immmediatly after, but within a few hours I had enough energy to want to ride my bike ot the store for some bananas and cran-raspberry juice...

trippy coincidence: at the store I ran into my mom and thus forced my purchases onto her... but as I was walking around with my mom I ran into J Rapp and we ended up hanging out afterwards... In conclusion, the entire world converges at the Chili-Paul Wegmans.

About an hour

I forgot to turn my watch on at the begining of the run so I've taken the liberty of adding six minutes on to my time of 54 min.

This was another exploration of the area behind my house, I was intending to meet up with the creek, but on my way ran into a smaller tributary that looked like fun. So tried to follow it to its source after about 30 min. I ran into a Stottle road about a mile away from my house and decided to go back home. Fortunatly I ran into a bit of impromptu exploration on the way back: a grassy field that was visable over the shrubs and bushes growing near the road. So I ran through that and got my feet covered in mud but found a really cool bit of forest with no underbrush that I took the rest of the way home.

Run: 41:59:52

Ran down the street to the "No Trespassing" area (about 2-3 min.). Its basically a place where stupid people hunt and refuse to let anyone else into so as not to disturb the deer. There are a couple paths that end in big anthropogenic fields with tall grass which was unusually tall this time. Being as that tall means itchy I got off the trails into the forest where there was less underbrush and ran alongside the creek for a while mostly on deer paths and through the areas where the foliage is thick enough to prevent underbrush. It ended up being about 30 minutes of agility training until I got to a degraded field which I followed around for a few minutes before realizing that it was the field that wraps around behind my house. The stupid bastards that live behind me let it dry out and get compacted. No real blood loss, but the random scrapes, itchiness, and off-trail nature are probably enough to consider this an adventure run in preparation for the trip to Bhutan.

Bike: 10 miles?
Run : 57:30

Rode bike to Oatka park (about 5 miles)

Ran one perimeter stopping to strech at 10 minutes. Then ran up the park road, down Lost Sara to the bridge. Doubled back and did an acceleration to the triangle (about 2 min 30 sec of hard running. And finished back on the fun route. legs were kind of tired the whole way. Could either be from the accelerations last night, or from riding the bike.

Rode back on bike.

Run: 48:26:63

Took yesterday off because of unpacking and then sitting in a car for 7 hours as we took the longest possible direct route home. Went out for an easy 30 min. I ended up at the park and streched before doing a 30-60-90-60-30-60-90-60 set of accelerations with random breaks never longer than 60. I didn't get much of a warmdown because I spaced the run wrong and got back a few minutes after I finished the accelerations.

Run: 38:15

Started at 2:15am

Ran with Harry easy from esopus thorugh campus to the rail trail, down the rail trail to hugenot and turned down the road with boces and back to campus. Really tired, the run felt really good and relaxed. Nothing exceptionally exciting.

Night Running

1:20:07

Started at about 1:30
went from the gym, to the bottom of Main Street, to the top of Main Street and took the rihgt after Peak, crossed over on the road by Wooster and went down the hill to the entrance ot rail trail, then went up the hill back to the Gym. I did this twice, the first time was easy as a warm up and the second one was at a fast but managable pace. This took about 40 minutes, for the rest of the time I went down the Rail trail going north, back the road near Boces, and finished by running around campus for a few minutes. My legs hurt.

I tried to focus on keeping a steady pace on each individual loop and on the 40min warmdown thing. While I was doing this I noticed that my cadence is pretty much unconscious now, but I still have to focus on integrating more hip movement.
I noticed that the speed workouts are realy helping increase my average speed; even when I'm relaxing on a warm down, I feel like I'm going pretty fast.

Opportunity Cost: I was not wearing socks or underwear and suffered from extensive chaffing in the crotch region and the seams from my shoes cut into my feet leaving them red and sore.

Run: 43min 7sec

Night running with Alexis.
Legs were kind of sore, probably just not recovered from biking...

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I'm going to hold off listing food until I can get a notebook to write it down in.

Took today off, legs are very tired and i have a lot of work. Although I ran out to catch up to Rob and Alex who I saw running from the window. Probably about 2-5 minutes easy.

Causalties
Picked scab which started bleeding. Also noticed some weird scab on head that apon being picked started bleeding.

Run
Intermittent periods while exploring the ice caves near Ellenville. Probably about 4-5miles some of which was up rocks on the small path which passes through the caves.

Legs were very tired from yesterday and remain so throughout the day.

Also did a little climbing which deserves to be mentioned.

Injuries sustained
Scraped my arm on rocks- no blood drawn
Stabbed knee with stick- opened up previous scab, stained my socks as well as causing the first blood stain on my shoes.

Food
12:30- 2bananas, bagel, french toast sticks

Relaxing the day after a race.

Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.

Mountain biking: 2-6ish

Pine Rd. to the pond. Up Glory Hill Rd. to Oakwood Dr. Over Rhododendron Bridge to Laurel Ledge Rd. To Giant's Path & Workplace, to Old Minnewaska Trail. Then Split Rock to Shongum Path. Back on Undercliff Rd., up Godzilla to Home Farm. Down on Forest Dr. to Kleine Kill Rd. and Duck Pond Rd. Finally to Pine Rd. and eventually campus.

Fall off #1: Riding down a narrow path with a little ditch taking up one side running parallel to the steep slope dropping off the otherside. Hit a rock, landed in the ditch, over compensated, and rode over the side. I was able to jump off and land on my feet as my bike tipped over the edge. (Old Minewaska Trail)

Fall off #2: Rode into a log. i tried to lift my front wheel to early and landed before getting to the log. Flipped over the handlebars and when I landed I pushed the bike over me with my legs. Minor knee pain in right knee and some cool scratches on my leg. Cristened my new socks with a blood stain. (Old Minewaska Trail)

Food
12:30- Falafels, carrots, tomatoes.
after bike ride, maybe 6ish- Hot dog, Hamburger.
9:00-12:00 Nuts and a protien power bar kind of thing.

Thursday May 10th

(yesterday was easy 50 minutes at 9:00pm in order to stay cool. Went to Peak, down main st., right on Huguenot and back on the road with planned parenthood.)

When the rabbit of chaos is pursued by the ferret of disorder through the fields of anarchy, it is time to hang your pants on the hook of darkness. Whether they're clean or not.
-Spice World

Huguenot 5k.

Woke up at about 11 getting about 7.5 hours of sleep, but ended up being pretty well rested.
Ate immediatly after: Vegan chicken nuggets, tomatoes, and something else...

Started warming up at about 4:30. Did one ten minute warm up, streched, did a second ten minute warm up and one five minute one and streched again. Race began at 6.
First mile: a little over 6 minutes
second mile: 12:15ish
Finished: 19:09

It was pretty hot. The long warm up and drinking lots of water throughout helped with the heat and it ended up not being to bad at all. I was also pretty loose.

Felt like I was going out to fast during the first mile but was able to hold it easily.
Started out a little behind Alex trying to keep about his pace and caught up a little before the turn around at about 1.5-1.8 miles. Pulled away from him a little after mile 2 and passed two more guys before finishing. Picked it up a little earlier than I had planned, but it ended up working out.

Pacing ended up being pretty much ideal, but I was too dependant on my watch as well as both trying to keep Alex close by at the beginning and misjudging the finish to be closer than it was. I should probably work on learning where my potential is for pushing myself. I seem to be underestimating it in 5ks at least. Even otherwise, I dont think i would be able to pace a good 8k either.

I feel like I ran this one much better than in Danbury, but i still ended up running slower which could either be due to the heat or the fact that I ran 50 minutes the night before.

Warmed down over the distance of the course with Mike, Harry, and Nick

Ate about 3 hotdogs, 2bananas, and 2 of those nature vally peanut butter things.

Went to hasbrouck and ate stuff which I dont remeber.

Took a nap afterwards (9ish to 11:30) from which we learn the critical lesson: dont sleep after races.