Running log: Saturday was 10 miles, today (Monday) was another five.
So, here's a catch to the running thing. I used to have to coordinate my evenings with my days just from a "do I need to go to bed early enough to make work fun and entertaining" sort of thing, but lately...? Woof.
Here was the reasoning as of last Thursday night's blog entry: I was wiped and I was looking forward to Friday's rest day. BUT, I had a Saturday morning run, the longest ever, to look forward to and prepare for. I needed to carbo load Friday night, make sure I got a good night's sleep in order to wake up for a 6:30 run. My morning needed enough time to prep my fuel belt, my Cytomax/water bottle, and prep Sarah to come with me. Thus, Friday night had a 10:00 bed time.
Saturday's run was HARD! That took about two hours all told (ten miles at a 11:30-ish pace plus cool down). That plus a day at the beach with Jodi and her girls (pics are here) made for ANOTHER early bedtime.
And I slept HARD! 10:30p to 10:00a. Solid. (So did Sarah!)
Sunday was A Day At The Con (pics are here) and that was super fun, PLUS a bunch of walking there and then after at Seaport Village (pics are here). Another good night's sleep, but I needed to prep for my Monday run Sunday night! Clothes, water, fuel, water, sensible food, water...
It's paying off, though. Today's run at Torrey Pines was pretty challenging with a good amount of hills and soft terrain. I walked some of it, but I was a strong finisher with a decent time.
It's 10:50p and I'm already trying to plan for the rest of the week. This is turning into a Labor of Love and I like it!
Running: It's a lifestyle change (plus, I had a FUN weekend!)
Back on the Block!
(Queue the Quincy Jones)
As of last Thursday, I'm back in training for the Nike Marathon on October 22nd. I've run 3.8 miles last Thursday, 6 miles Saturday, 5 miles Monday, 5 miles Wednesday, and 5 miles tonight -- that's 24.8 miles in a week and five out of seven days! Pretty soon, though, I'm gonna do that in about four hours.
In the meantime, tomorrow is a rest day and I'm gonna call it Well Earned.
I'm committing to running in the Nike Marathon as a part of Team In Training (TNT), a part of the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS), a non-profit health organization dedicated entirely to finding a cure for Leukemia, Lymphoma, Hodgkin’s disease, and Myeloma. These diseases ALL suck hard, and they are all forms of cancer, the disease that took my brother's life two years ago yesterday.
I've been vacillating on whether I can really commit to doing this marathon and I've come to the conclusion that I am going to do it. I am submitting my final recommittal forms this Saturday. What that means is that I'm going to do this run one way or another. I've never been a goal oriented person, but I'm taking a crash course in being one now.
The other side of this is that I will need your support. This will be my chance to "execute a marketing plan" and, besides me wanting you to "buy my product", I'm also interested in criticism of my marketing. Why not? I can take it.
So, expect donation requests, flyers, skywriting, Super Bowl ads, and more in the next few weeks. In the meantime, if you've already decided to support me just because, please make a donation on my donation page.
Thanks, and much love from me to you.
Run, don't walk, to see "A Scanner Darkly"
What an amazingly powerful movie. All around goodness from the visual storytelling to the characterizations. I found myself, with my friend, applying the film as an analogy to many different aspects of life, and the film had a lot of different levels to play with: paranoia, control, manipulation, deception, conviction, ideals, self-image, self worth, and more.
This would be a fun movie to dissect over coffee after a viewing.
Thanks to all the creators. I thoroughly enjoyed that movie both during and after watching it.
Asian Field by Gormley
Bravo, Mr. Gormley.
Credentials of Ministry
Seriously, check out the ideology of the church in their wiki. It makes sense -- it's inclusive, non-denominational, and I think it acknowledges the spirituality within each of us.
The potential and beauty of "The Tense Middle"
I've recently purchased an alarm clock that plays the radio as an alarm. It's set to NPR in the morning and today I woke up to a wonderfully beautiful spoken essay.
NPR has a program called "this i believe" where people can contribute "the beliefs that guide you...", and today's was called The Tense Middle by Roald Hoffman, the 1981 Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry. His history of surviving the holocaust and perceiving the world as a chemist is one of the most beautiful things I've heard.
Ever.
p.s. Try listening to the essay versus reading the transcript. I found it even much more satisfying.
An Intewectual Wabbit
Film making, literally
Here's a cool little short made from a point-and-shoot with rapid fire shots strung together into a film. Cool points IMHO: cohesive story, whimsical story telling (anything with whimsy works for me), hardware cost of under $300, willing participants in an experimental art form.
