Monday, 12/13 - Off
Played some basketball. Banked my first shot (a three) off glass and in. Everything was downhill from there because nobody acknowledges the true value of my tough defense. That's all I'll say about my weekly ballin' sesh.
Tuesday, 12/14 - Got my run in on treadmill right before lunch. Took it easy. Treadmills need to be calibrated. They were off by a lot. According to mine, I was running 10 minute/mile pace, but then again, the guy next to me was walking and his treadmill said he was moving at 7 mph. You do the math.
30:00 (~4 miles)
AST - 39.5 miles
Wednesday, 12/15 - Ran Long Boulger. Very windy. Left calf still nagging a bit. Very windy, cold.
33:00 (4.5 miles)
AST - 44 miles
Thursday, 12/16 - Hit up treadmill again. School was let out early because of snow/ice, so it was too treacherous to run outside. I say treacherous, but really that's just the new DC resident in me saying treacherous. That 1-2 inches was just too much for me now. I'm soft.
30:00 (~4 miles)
AST - 48 miles
Friday, 12/17 - Drove to Williamstown, West Virginia for Jobes' race. Day off from running, but was a "hard" day for driving. Hit I-270 North at 3:55 pm... we can call the subsequent 1.5 hours of driving a fartlek workout with the high end being 20 mph.
Saturday, 12/18 - Ran in the Jobes Memorial Race in Williamstown, WV. It was nippley to say the least. I started off with a blistering 10 minute warm up, courtesy of Cic, Hunter, and McKinney. We weren't hammering, that's a lie, but for my first warm up before a "race" since surgery, anything more than sitting down is cruising. I followed the w/u with a 19:03 5k and then a 20 minute cool down (over the bridge into Ohio and quickly back). I originally decided to just run with a friend for fun. We planned on not running hard, but after 8-9 minutes and a bunch of people passing me, including a group of dudes with tight spandex - "tight spandex" is redundant, but I really needed to emphasize the use of this particular spandex - I was forced to make a decision regarding my own manhood. One from the group was wearing really, really short spandex (girl's length potentially?), and upon seeing this and knowing we were running 6:30 pace, I couldn't allow myself lose to them. Instead, I decided to drop the hammer, and although I obviously didn't go all out, my next few miles were somewhere south of 6 minutes. Needless to say, I slammed lots of runners over the last two miles. Do I feel good about myself? The answer to that is ... I always feel good about destroying people at running, even if they are 90, blind, and gimpy. At this point, I'll take 'em where I can get them.
This is way too long an entry, however, I feel obligated to relate what was witnessed at a bar in Marietta, OH this evening. A lady testing the 250 lb barrier was doing the dirtiest dancing up against a wall. Just her, the spotlight, and the bricks. Intimate. Absolutely nasty, yet mesmerizing at the same time. Some really skinny dude (acting on a bet?) went up to get down with it. She put his hands in unmentionable places on her body. Her shirt also came completely unbuttoned and her boobs were hanging out all over the place in her size JJJ bra. The best part was the face this guy made. Priceless. He may have been concerned Shamu was going to eat him. Totally hot. When the bartender called for last call, he said he was going to get them drinks, but he never returned. We probably stood there and watched for 45 minutes. Molz and I were tempted, but I guess we weren't strong-willed enough (or drunk enough?) to conquer the beast.
49:00 (~7.25 miles)
AST - 55.25 miles
Sunday, 12/19 - Quick, easy 20 minutes in the morning. Yesterday, hamstrings felt slightly overextended. I told DP not to let me run down those kids... Anyway, the legs loosened up with the run. We left Brenda's at 12:20 and I walked in the door at home in Newington, 640 miles later, at 11:00 PM (actually driving time, 9:25). It was good to see Brenda, John, Kristen and the rest of the Jobes family and friends.
Never easy going there, though.
20:00 (2.5 miles)
AST - 57.75 miles
Week's Total Mileage - 22.25 miles
Week's Total Time Running - 162 minutes
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