Happy Halloween

Well yesterday was a simple day. I may even swam a mile in record time but my first half was not or I lost count when I switched lanes. Aqua aeoribics were goiing to take my lane soon. So I switched and I did a few more but hopely I did enough. I felt I had good speed going though in the second half mile.

I got home ate had some food then hit the bike trainer for 45 mins. I wanted to do more but for sound reasons I will not bike after 10 pm and I should be sleeping by 10 anyways. Tonight is a nice easy rest night so its only 5 mile run for me. Hopely I can do it. I wish I had Lora on tuesdays but its ok. Nice to be able to run with someone. John used to come out but he been too busy with work. Maybe if I start to date cute tuesday night girl she will have to come out once to met her. She is never there on saturdays for some reason. I have to get my legs back into shape to run 8 miles. Thanks to beautiful Lisa for helping me get back into running. hopely the knee will completely heal in 2 weeks or so.

my weight is down back to 293. now as good at the 289 I was at for a about 1 week but the marathons really hurt me. Weight lose and marathoning do not mix.

So what is going on?

Friday.

Simple told Lora I was back up to 298 lbs and she got a little freaked out. She recommended that I lift weight which I did. needless to say I still can not move my arms. So much pain. Only did Body body and the core. I was reminded of other things I should do.

Saturday.

I ran 4 miles with John and Lora. Haight was there which was really cool. I guess he ran/walked for 4 miles. I though I was going to do that also but I ended up running all but the last .15 mile so it was all good. I thought about going on but I did not do it. Latter that might I set up the old bike trainer and was on it for 1:10 mins. I watched "The Long Run". Great movie but I had to turn on subtitles with the trainer since alot of the dialog was hard to understand in the first place and the noise of the trainer did not help. Already thinking I should have gotten the fluid which I believe is quiter but I could be wrong. Now I would like to run the Conrades marathon. Its a little longer than a regular marathon. to be a Conrades qualifier you need to run a 5:00 marathon and finish conrades in 12:00. Conrades is a 90k and I guess a pretty tough point to point. They call it the most cruelling road race. Honestly I think badwater probably is more though.

Sunday.

Well Today I got to see my sweetheart Lisa. Dick Pond's had a post marathon injury clinic and NB was out there also. Just for the record Lisa > Lora. Told her what been going on with me. She showed me some streches for my tendious and says she will give me a good dr if it does not go away or atleast better in 2 weeks. Sounds like from her that I should be able to do the Chicago 50/50. She also warned me about lifting with my quads since you want them to be flexible and strength is not as important. I totally should have asked her out. She also asked me how Loraine was doing and I am like I do not know any Loraine but I told her that my friend Reen is going be back very soon and that Lora and I are counting the days.

After that I swam for .5 miles which was slower than I have been doing and very painful since my arms are sorer than my legs were after the marathon. I came home and on the way home I found out I missed the bears game and I was sad. My parents then came home from Wisconsin. I got my mat on saturday so I set it up in my room and when on the Bike trainer for about 45 mins. I would gone longer but it was 10 by the time I got off of it and that is ppretty late already. Being noisey I do not want to do it after 10. needless to say I like it and still go in over an hour for my work out. thinking for awhile now I am going to try to swim then bike everyday. swim a mile and then come home and bike about 15. heck if bump that up 10 miles and then run 6 miles I would do an Oly every day. ok I not oging to but I like the idea of almost doing a triathlete everyday. Maybe because I have nothing better to do at night when I get home from work then to cycle and watch tv.

"Paradox

You will never achieve spiritual enlightenment.
The you that you think of as you is not you.
The you that thinks of you as you is not you.
There is no you, so who wishes to become enlightened?
Who is not enlightened?
Who will become enlightened?
Who will be enlightened?

Enlightenment is your destiny more certain than sunrise.
You cannot fail to achieve enlightenment.
Were you told otherwise?
Irresistible forces compel you. The universe insists.
It is not within your power to fail.

There is no path to enlightenment:
It lies in all directions at all times.
On the journey to enlightenment, you create and
destroy your own path with every step.
No one can follow another's path.
No one can step off the path.
No one can lead another.
No one can turn back.
No one can stop.

Enlightenment is closer than your skin,
more immediate than your next breath,
forever beyond your reach.

It need not be sought because it cannot be found.
It cannot be found because it cannot be lost.
It cannot be lost because it is
not other than that which seeks.

The paradox is that there is no paradox.
Is that not the damnedest thing?"

- Jed McKenna


thought I share of my favorite poems. What does mean in your dreams when haight and lora are selling to crap holes so you go there and checked them out and they really small not bad but small. Funny I think the one that was more haight was the worst since it had a bed built into kicken cabnets. that was the bedroom. crazy huh. Lora was pushing the other one and it was small but perfect size jsut for me. it was cheap and also close to the city which also means close to her but not close to work so I had to turn it down.

Also in my dream I watched baseball and Bob shram and Cindy Jo got married. atleast it looked like they did.

It was a fairly lucid dream which was nice too.

now what

"I have 5 mins to spare. I do not know what to do with myself" - american president

ok marathon is over. I am hurting so I need to take time off. what do I do now with my life? even with some training but loswing it down will I have no idea what to do with all my free time I have now. It is driving me crazy.

As for the marathon thing I think time limits should be 8 hours at the most. honestly anything less and people will not take it seriously I beleive. I want to see people to do it but if they jsut wake up and decided to walk couple hours take a few off and repeat that for 10 - 14 hours is just not the same. you can have a charity walk or even do that on your own for fun but for a race its just too slow.

I still give the 370 guy credit because even at 8:30:00 I knew he had to work hard to get there. for me its more about the work than your race time that really matters.

When big guys Marathon

Well I learnt I am not the biggest guy to finsish a marathon but still may be the biggest to finisher at chicago. This guy I found on the course weights well currently about 72 lbs more than me. yes my weight this morning was up to 298.2 again. ONce my muscles are no longer sore and I am back working out that will go down again very fast. Its common that a person will gain several lbs shortly after a marathon. There is alot of water weight. My foot is getting better and hopely in couple weeks it will be fine. Still not going to do the 50/50. I also know that since my foot will keep me off my feet hopely for 2 weeks that my knee which was killing me on sunday is feeling great now and will be fully healed by then. The redness is way down and the pain is alot less with my foot.

looking up the guys picture above he did the honaloo marathon. Interesting thing about that marathon is that 1/3 of there finishers which is about 22,000 of them finish after 6 1/2 hours. It is a warmer marathon being about 70 degrees at mid day. My only greater than 6 1/2 hour marathon has been on an 86 degree day. Plus that marathon only had poweraid at half there stops which also with the heat was very very bad situtation for BOPs like myself. That is what really killed me and not my skills that day. The fact so many people finish after 6 1/2 hours makes me think. ok to be an Iron Man finisher its distance and time thing. You only get 17 hours to do it in. The time is a big part of if your an iron man finisher. How long do you get before being a marathon finish does not mean anything? 6 hours? 6 1/2? 7? 8? 10? 14?
Honolouloo had number over 14 hours. 7000 over 6.5 hours, 2000 over 8 hours, 300 over 10 hours with 10 over 14 hours. Cleveland marathon had 74 who took them 11 weeks. Should there be a line drawn and if so where? I been told that Marathons are suppose to have finish line open for a minuim of 8 hours really but there is nothing set really. Chicago wants people done in 6 - 6/5 hours but leave the line open for seems like 8 hours. so should one try to finish in 6 - 6.5 hours? since they keep the finish line open for 8 hours is that ok to finish at that time?

Can you tell I been talking about the 17 hour time limit for an IM finish?

Hell and Back.

by Julibean262

Start of the Milwaukee Marathon. click to make it really viable.

I would repost the pic or Lora and myself but honestly people who read mine reads mine also.

I came I saw I did Chicago Marathon for the 3rd time. Miwaukee marathon was so much easier on my body in some ways. I was very tired, sore, and instead it being enjoyable after about mile 10 it was a long painful struggle. My knee was killing me. The drugs helped but wore off at mile 20. I also took some on the course and it was better but I need to take more but well I tried to throw up twice on the course. I was not able to do it since nothing to throw up. I thought more ibuprofen would not helped me at all since I did not know if I was able to keep it down. I was able to keep my cliff shot down but that was very hard. I walked lended over for awhile since well I thought I was about to lose it. I did not find any place that had blocs at the expo. Just too much stuff there. I will be posting alot of pics soon I think from the race and maybe expo. So many I think I will get a webshots account like Juli B has to post them on. So Many stories also and some well I have to see when pics come out. About mile 24 I was getting pain in my knee and a shooting pain from my foot too. It was hurting so many and well having to go up the hill on concrete was so hard on my foot. Being farther back as I was make it alot harder. A few water spots were closed when I got there. Lucky my sisters brought me water since well I would not had some for the last couple of miles. Lucky some were still open and I had a water bottle that my sisters gave me at China Town. The end of the race van passed me at like mile 18 and was telling me to get off the street and go to the sidewalk. I still finsihed the race with 8 mins to spare with the road reopenings. I guess though in China town where I got know water the road was open a few minutes after I got through but they went found lunch and got me some Bananas and Jewel. So maybe 10 - 15 minutes after I went through the road reopened. I knew if I had to go to the sidewalk that I would had to dropped out. going up that hill on the side walk was painful enough. It would be really too bad if I would have had to be so close and not make it.

My sister's wore there team Todd shirts but its was too cold to show them off.

Decided to make sure this is my last 6 hour marathon. I am going to get alot faster and so when I have to slow down I am not bringing in the rear so much. Either that or just not run it hurt. I muscle wise I feel alot better than I do after most but my foot sore is not good though.

Seatech Astronomy

From movie sneakers

David Strathairn (Whistler): Fellas, Janek's little black box is on his desk between the pencil jar and the lamp.
Dan Aykroyd (Mother): Uh, Whistler, I hate to tell you this, but you're blind.

Yep. I myself have too many secrets. Its about time I let you all know one of my deep down secrets. Yes its true. I can no longer hide my love for this. espcially the last 2 mins of it. I just found this longer version.



I think in a past life I must been Irish. I love Irish folk music. Yeah marathon week can be pretty boring I spent like 40 mins in a hot tube last night. swam really slowly and easy about 1/4 a mile. Really did nothing all week. I been eating bad and just well not caring. Marathon day should be fun, and will be a good test for me.

Now you all know my deep dark secret. Shh just do not tell anyone.

October 17th

Did everyone have a good October 17th. I know I did. It was a very good day for me. Probably one of my best days. Atleast that I felt the best. My face is sore from all the laughing.

I did not get a chance to ride in my bike trainer but its probably for the best. The knee feels good. Last night I had a dream that on aol news my nutirousion coach was listed for like internet diet scams and that Chicago 50/50 was something I skhould do and it fun. hehe I really want to do the chicago 50/50. It would be so much fun.

Does the avg runner actaully lose weight or gain it during a marathon? Its an interesting question. If you over eat the night before by lets say 500 cals. you consume 20 cups of gateorade at 50 cals each that is 1000 cals. Maybe you over eat like 500 cals after the race you are looking over 1000 cals net lost where it is something you do on a normal good day. I guess it makes you second guess too much racing. Then again all of that allows you to enjoy yourself and get through the race happy and healthy and isn't that what the race is about.

Beth yelled at me last night. She complained that I stopped talking. We were talking somone came up to say something to her but I stop and allowed the other person to talk and Beth was upset because she never got to hear the end of my mindless chatter. What a sweeet woman.

Rubber Duckie

"Quack, Quack, Quack" - Duck

Well last night at lifetime fitness I there was a group of ciroprators giving free spine tests. I filled out the questionaire. I did this after I swam. Well I been having back troubles since well I for a new bed. water bed to a really firm bed. Hmm wonder if I am not used to it. I have a sore neck because not only did I swim like 4 miles last week but friday and Monday I swam 1.2 miles. Nothing like a HIM swim. I would like to do a HIM so I figure its good to get the distance in. I may not compete in the chicago tri or atleast may not do it as an A race and try to do a HIM instead. Well when I swim I tend to favor that side giving it more of a work out and causing that side to be sore. So I also have a sore next and of course I could not do math so I was quite fatigued. I also had a weight control problem for a long time. So he had be go through these tests and was like you had back problems for some time because my weight is equal and that is spine must be off. my head is forward because well I am tired and I always looking down on the little people. my right neck is stronger but like I said I been using it more and I been working hard to work the other side because of my spine imbalance.

Well girl at work today said a friend of hers broken her back going to see one of them. Well interesting she was like I am republican and telling how the unions are ruining everything. Funny how unions which do not reall exsist anymore are ruining everything because corperate leaders are going to china for cheap labor. If our company could they would pay her next to nothing too if they could.

Thing I really learnt in this life is everything must be in balance and if something is not imbalance then it will not work as well as it could and should. In theory most everything is good but without a good balance the flaws show and become beginner. Reason I like Lora so much. She balances me and forces me to be a better person. I hope I do the same thing to her in turn.

Just For Today

Just for today, I will not worry
Just for today, I will not anger
Just for today, I will show love and respect for every living thing
Just for today, I will do my work honestly
Just for today, I will live in gratitude

Everyone who may read this blog. For rest of the day today and tomorrow remember these mottos. Do not be afraid to take an honest look at yourself and what you want from this world. Find Joy in all things. Life is a beautiful thing. May your lives be blessed.

Just for Today, I will see the beauty of Life.

Marathon Week

because everyone sometimes needs a little taper.

Welcome to another edition of marathon week here on my blog. That is right its Oct which means Marathon season. If you ever wanted to do back to back marathons this is the weekend. There is Indy on Saturday and Chicago on Sunday. Its doable if you can do the distance that is. IT sounds rough but if you done a 50 miler then this should be easier

Lora is tapering but still dieting. I am going to carbo load and not going to taper. My view screw the taper. ok I will taper but Taper starts wednesday night. I will have like 3 - 4 days with nothing to do. Coach is going to kill me since well I am suppose to do 1:15 in the gym this week. I will not get my minutes/days in. He will call me a failure and a loser. I would challedge him to a marathon but he has too many muscles and he can not run even 5 ft. ok maybe not but still. No impact work out though. No running/walking this week only biking and swimming.

Speaking of working out. I did 1:15 on the bike trainer for the first time. IT was fun and cool. This morning my body fat % is down. Water is up and weight well I ate almost an entire tsaumusu I was saving for post marathon. needless to say I threw about 1/4 out but the weight was at 288.4 this morning. I was staring when I woke up and I am getting hungry again so its almost snack time already. Sure I do not have the best snacks yet I am trying to figure that all out but the weight is still coming off faster than a person on biggest loser. :). The week I pred at the marathon this year I ran 17 miles in 4 days within 3 days of the marathon and I still pred by alot.

3 - 4 - 2 is the marathon miles for the week but I am going to save my knee. IT feels great this week but Saturday was so bad I am not taking any chances. Maybe I will do 2 miles on thursday because I can but like I said its all aboput the healing. Lets face it I want to finish the marathon but its also important to get out there again with Lora and John. Also thinking about a massage this week too. If I do I need to do it earlier than latter.

Since I am so skinny now I decided to sign up with the 5:00 pace team.

Interesting fun fact I learnt on average a 160 man running marathon at 12:00 or 8:00 the 8:00 burns only 125 more cals over 26.2 miles.

1 8 oz cups of gaterade endurance will give you 50 cals also. I will drink abotu 1000 cals over a marathion but I will still burn an extra 4500 cals. so excited about marathon time.

Totally 80s

"I didn't feel it but this time I feel and I can't deny the fact that you like me. You really like me!" Sally Field 1985 Oscar acceptance speech. (Best actress)

Do you remember the 80s?

Well That is where I am now. 289.4 lbs. Sure tomorrow I might be over 290 again but who knows. I drank alot saturday night. I was going to be a good boy and then I saw Stephanie at the party but she left early, and I will decided to go all out. Not bad but not good either about 4 drinks worth. Stephanie looked so cute and she seemed to actually wanted to talk to me unlike last couple of months it was like nothing. First thing out of her mouth was wow Todd you realy lost alot of weight. Ironicly I bought a bike trainer that day and I got to see newer Ron. I was excited to see him because I wanted to get his views on the trainer I bought. He figures next year I will be a speed demon on the bike. I have a need for speed. I will porbably bike with the BCLC once a month once I figure I can keep up with them. I hope he is right it would be cool to actually pass people on the bike, swim, and run on the tri or atleast not have them pass me up so much. I guess you have to be bad at swimming to be able to pass people on the bike if you do a mass start. My goal is not to be that bad :). MOP here I come. I think next year when I reach my goal weight I am going to try to be 1 above the middle time. Maybe not in every race but really to do quite well. Like around a 2 hour half marathon time. Already I have a 2:30 goal for Cary in mind. 30 - 40 lbs lighter and if I am healthy to run and to train I should make it easy.

I did 1:15 mins on my bike trainer. That is about how far I like to do. I would like to have swam first for an hour or basicly 1 mile. would be cool to burn about 2000 cals a day. but the beauty of tris is not avoid overuse injuries and exhuasted and not increase the chance of them.

I jsut made 8 meals worth of food. Wow that was quite a project but knowing I do not have to cook for almost 2 weeks is exciting also.

My knew weight lose plan mean I need to lose .5 lbs every day so if I can burn 1300 cals and eat 500 less I will do it. This week being marathon week I am going to take it easier though. Its hard to though. I always have big goals but my last marathon I did not taper at all for I found myself injuried for 2months and missed 2 races I wanted to do. I really wanted to do the bus trip marathon. next year I will do it and hopely next year haight will be there and will be able to run with me.

In trouble again

Well bad news. weight went up. Should I say I finally bottomed out. no more water weight for me. now I really have to start working. Maybe its because last night is the first night I did not work out on since Sunday. TOmorrow I think I will walk 6 miles. its not great but its almost the same distance I need to for tomorrow.

what do wear for the marathon checklist
winter parka
ski mask
snowmoblie pants
snow shoes.

I hate the snow. go away.

I saw a foot type doctor last night at this foot store and she told me I need to spend $250 or my feet will go bad forever. interesting though your suppose to have orthinics to help correct feet problems caused alot by our shoes. so why not change the shoes?

to lift or not to lift that is the question. Do I want to be all skinny and look hot or do I want to be skinny and be able to run really far and really fast. choices choices.

I guess its better to be skinny and look hot since well it gets more girls. Girls are what its all about. You get more girls with a better body than you do with 30 mins faster marathon time. Of course with chicago marathon coming up I can not do much since well I have to make sure my muscles are in prime shape then. Its not really an A type race but It still requires alot of work. In other words its not an A but its a race you still have to respect.

Interesting my sister and I debated men/women friendships and dating. Men and women are friends to date without having to have sex. This is not true because well its silly. Women want to marry their friends. Also not true. Girls are into relationships and why marry a guy when you can get the milk for free. Also they worry about ruining the friendship which might been ruined anyways after one gets married. Its happened with me before. Last one is girls do not want to marry a goodlooking guy for fear they will cheat on you. Also I do not think that is true because 1 you have to be attracted to the guy to date him, and 2 I seen what happens when you gain weight. I used to gain weight and girl would leave me. lose it and she would come back.

In trouble again

Well bad news. weight went up. Should I say I finally bottomed out. no more water weight for me. now I really have to start working. Maybe its because last night is the first night I did not work out on since Sunday. TOmorrow I think I will walk 6 miles. its not great but its almost the same distance I need to for tomorrow.

what do wear for the marathon checklist
winter parka
ski mask
snowmoblie pants
snow shoes.

I hate the snow. go away.

I saw a foot type doctor last night at this foot store and she told me I need to spend $250 or my feet will go bad forever. interesting though your suppose to have orthinics to help correct feet problems caused alot by our shoes. so why not change the shoes?

to lift or not to lift that is the question. Do I want to be all skinny and look hot or do I want to be skinny and be able to run really far and really fast. choices choices.

I guess its better to be skinny and look hot since well it gets more girls. Girls are what its all about. You get more girls with a better body than you do with 30 mins faster marathon time. Of course with chicago marathon coming up I can not do much since well I have to make sure my muscles are in prime shape then. Its not really an A type race but It still requires alot of work. In other words its not an A but its a race you still have to respect.

Interesting my sister and I debated men/women friendships and dating. Men and women are friends to date without having to have sex. This is not true because well its silly. Women want to marry their friends. Also not true. Girls are into relationships and why marry a guy when you can get the milk for free. Also they worry about ruining the friendship which might been ruined anyways after one gets married. Its happened with me before. Last one is girls do not want to marry a goodlooking guy for fear they will cheat on you. Also I do not think that is true because 1 you have to be attracted to the guy to date him, and 2 I seen what happens when you gain weight. I used to gain weight and girl would leave me. lose it and she would come back.

Dropping Fast

My weight is dropping fast. By the time Lora comes out on a saturday again which is in 3 weeks I will probably be dead. I went from 298 on thursday and this morning I am at 292.2. Yep I am doing to be dead soon enough because I losing too much weight. I will admit I do not eat enough food in a day lately. Well its hard to eat that much of healthy food though. seriously 2500 cals of good food? its hard to do really. Its easy with crappy food but with good food it just seems to hard. Since well it seems like alot of food to cram down.

Good news is I can freeze my lunch. yep I can turn my lunch into a tv dinner which is really good since I would not have to eat out ever unless I forget it at home. I can make alot of them and save alot of time.

I walked 4 miles last night. no pain during it or after which is good. my knee is getting better slowly but surely. Chicago Marathon may screw it up againa little bit but hopely not. tonight I plan on swimming 1 mile again. I got to work later since I could not get up this monrning but gym is close to work so I can avoid the traffic.

Michelle is sad she does not get a chance to met Lora before she goes back to moscow. Well I mention Lora to Juli A and Michelle ask who is that. I tried to explain it to her and she jsut did not get it. Atleast until I told her its Haight's gf and then she knew. Juli A does not think I should spend so much money and feels I been doing well on my own. Maybe I have and I can but I have too many ups and downs constantly and so many times I fight to lose 10 lbs. I like to lose 50 lbs in 6 months and not 1 year.

swim,knee, and bodyfat

ok. I am confused since coach says I can drop 39 lbs by Sno fun run. He wants me to lose 1.2 lbs a week so I am very confused how this is going to happen. Plus if I eat the calories he wants me to eat well I do not know if I can do it and be healthy at the same time. 2500 cals is alot even for me. I can eat more cal foods but they would be cals for the sake of them without any other benefit.

I have dropped 5 lbs alreadyt his week. I am sure I was retaining water but still.

Today I have double breakfests and double lunch. yeah me. All I need after that is doulbe dinner and I am golden.

Swimming well I jsut did .5 miles it was very hard since I was exhausted. but I did it and in pretty good time. Cute girls at the gym always bring the best out of me.

Well I like the idea of posting my pre marathoning picture if I fail but not sure what my goal should be. coach has me on 1.2 lbs a week but to reach the goal he mentions I need to drop about 3 lbs a week. 275 by sno fun run woutld be a little more than what coach wants from me. but I think it can be done. It will be my pre stephanie weight and be 50 lbs for the year which is not bad.

How to embarrass myself?

I been listening to my new weight lose coach. One thing he recommends do something that would really embarrass yourself. I saw this done on Dateline I think and everyone lost the weight but 1 girl. It was showing themselves in a biniki before they did there weight lose. Question I have is what can I do? MAybe something to do with the Apline Runners. Since a big milestone comes about the time of the snow fun run can I put use that? Lora is good for kicking butt should I have her publiclly beat me down if I fail? Any ideas would be good.

Prune Hands

My name is Todd and I suffer from prune hands. Yes prune hands suck. Yesterday I swam my first mile. As I may switch focuses from the 50 miler to the oly Triathlon I need to swim more. Plus swimming is much better for my knee right now. nice thing about swimming you can not get over use injuries but you can pull muscles. My upper body is so tired today if I swim again tonight it will only be 1/2 mile. I would really like to be able to get a mile in 30 mins which is my goal. Actually my goal for 1 mile is 38 minutes. Last night it took me 1:17:00 and the .9 which is the Oly length took me 1:07:00 which need to be down to 35:00 by august. I did the first 1/2 in 33 minutes which is probably my fastest 1/2 mile to date. Calorie lose wise I got credit for 6 miles which is exciting. I guess if I swim on saturday it will equal my 8 mile long run. After next paycheck I am getting a bike trainer also. I may not be able to run for awhile longer but when I come back I want to be faster than ever.

Good news is my knee feels very good today. So far today my pain is gone. Thank God for tris because instead of back on the weight lose train I would be back on the weight gain train I am sure.

Is Chicago/ Is not Chicago

Nothing like Finishing Milwaukee to make me smile. :). Finishing a marathon is fun but 22 mile is better.

Last night I saw the man Cary Pinkowski. I did get a picture with him but I got home so late and I have Milwaukee pics of me now so I figured I would put them up first. He should the highlight dvd which was like the one they had 2005 for the see yourself in the race dvd but it was extended. I actually think I saw two people I have raced with in other races and what not in the DVD which is cool. One being the cute girl who ran the 50/50. But they show her kissing her man who also did the 50/50 last year. Also a girl I beleive I did a running workshop with.

Well Lora was right. I joined her club last night and my knee has not bothered me since. It did not hurt since I went swimming last night. It probbaly finally loosened up a muscle that is tired and tight from the marathon. Note to self. no matter how cute a girl is or how fast she can run do not walk 2 days after marathon., swim instead. Always swim.

Speaking of swimming I did 34 lenths or 929 yards. 32 lengths are basicly a half mile. I did it in like 40 mins and I seriously need to basicly double it in the same in. August will be here in no time. It was slow but it felt good to be out there and training again. ONly 1 tight area left on my body and that is my feet. Not sure why that always gets so tight but it does.

Chicago here I come.

Lora is such a pain

Pain makes you beautiful. Lora is beautiful therefore Lora is pain. ok logically speaking Lora must have gone through alot of pain.

Well yesterday my knee hurt. It was hurting pretty bad actaully. This morning not so much but still bothering me some. funny though the area that hurts at times stops hurting and even though its the same knee it could be a different pain and that would be good. I am thinking I probably should finally see a DR about it. Maybe it jsut takles awhile but it seems not to have changed much. All I know is tonight I swim.

Weight has been going back up. I am up about 5-6 lbs since I got sick 1 week before the marathon. I am reading the book but I admit my diet has been poor lately. Plus last night was my dad's birthday celebration and we got a 10 lb cheese cake I think to celebrate. maybe it was 8 lbs anyways it was huge still 3/4 of it left. I so need to get back into eating better and stay away from quiznos. You can not get nultrional information from them so I really need to avoid them since I think they are trying to hide something.

The Good, The Bad, and the painful

Well I walked last night. My friend Michelle from Russia bought me a hat from the world track championships that were in Moscow. That was so sweet of her. Later today I may edit the blog and add the pic of her and myself from Yogi's last night.

I walked about 2.67 and my knee was aching but not from the tendon directly so I figure maybe that is a good sign. Just general a post marathon ache and not tenditsis. Still icing the heck out of it and its getting better. In fact so many of my muscles are sore. I could not keep up with Pat when I walked with him for about 1.3 miles. He was just too fast for me. I am walking about a 22 min/mile pace now.

I asked PAt about the article about how marathoners are getting so slow. I have never seen Pat so angry about anything before. Funny because its not the elites that usually bitch but the elite wannabes.

I heard about a 50k and I wanted more details. Yep I want to do an ultra this weekend but I know since I can not even walk that would not be a good thing. marathon withdrawl is a hard thing to go through.

This just in

We interrupt our regular blog for a special news flash.

Chicago Triathlon 2007 announced there very own version of the goofy challege. It is their new triple race. It included the super spriit on saturday which is not very far at all. The bike is 6 miles. Spirit distance on Sunday follow by Oly distance race. The Combined Sunday races almost give you a Half Iron man. You swim farther but your bike and run are shorter. They also made the Cydesdale groups smaller making it hard to win. no longer do they have the 30-39 and then 29 and under. now its 39 and under and 40 and up. Now still looking at last years time the 29 and under were alot slower than the 30 and up. I still feel if I work hard enough that I have a chance but the question is do I still train to compete or do I do the cool goofy like challege. there is no special finisher medal for the triple threat challege but you do get a special shirt. So cool race finisher or do I go for double medals and probably more glory?

OK more techical info now

Well my garmin said I did 26.51. I know I took 1 curve a little wide. IT was about mile 14 and I wanted to give my knee a break. It was not hurting but I did not want to take any chances. I want to do well in Chicago, and of course finish chicago. My weekly millage been kinda bad this summer but I have something 2 marathons and 1 ultra so I think my overall fitness level is better but its taking longer to recover then I would like. First Marathon and Ultra I basicly PR. Marathin I pr'ed by 11 mins and the ultra was not an official pr but I did my first 50k in about 8:45 and this was a little less than 30.11 in 8 hours which is alot laster than the first 50k but not quite the same ditance.

Garmin % error was 1.18% which is still quite good. somehow my max speed it said was 57 miles per hour. You know what. I think I had it on on the high way so I turned it on and off again so I was doing that on the highway. hehe. glad I remember it. ok I will give garmin a 26.50 because of my little problem. So I figure only about 1.14% which is pretty good. I always compare the garmin at each mile marker to get a sense how far its off so I know how to better read it.

My Avg heart rate was 146. Which is about where I would like it to be. It was getting over 160 for the last couple of miles but that is getting a little high. 154 is where it should be for maxium cardio trainiing for me.

Tueday I am walking even though I was only going to swim. Michelle is going to be there so I figure I better be there also. I talked to her for 2:30 hours last night on the phone.

Chicago I am thining about the 5:45 pace group. 5:45 is a PR for me. Knee is getting slow close to being better now its not funny but still not there. If it still hurts with hard pressure after chicago marathon I may not do the 50/50 and just let myself heal unless of course Lora wants to do the 50/50.

Milwaukee Lakefront.

Well I came I saw I ran 26.2 miles. OK I walked most of it but I hate the term when you run/walk or in this case walk/run a marathon people call you a walker. now I did get passed by a couple of ladies who were really steady walking, but those 2 ladies and the guy who beat me by like 20 seconds are the only people who passed me after about mile 6. I passed probably about 12 - 15 people myself, but all but 1 did not finish in 6:30:00 so we will never know how many people I really beat that day. Unless of course you count people who made it to mile 20 but did not get an official time. There were a handful but I did not sit around and count how many people I beat.

Juli A was sweet she came back and want to see if she could see me but had no idea I was on my final mile and missed by only 5 minutes. She called me later to see how I did. once again what a sweet heart. She also BQ for 3rd year in a row.

I have to thank virtual Lora. Yep I basicly created my own Lora in my mind who would yell at me if I went to do something stupid or to encourage me to be smart out there. Most anyone else would be like hey you can PR so why don't you push it and do it. Lora would never do that and I love for that. She cares about people, and I know she cares about me and my health. I do not care if I PR at Chicago and I do not think I will be able to run with Lora and if I did it might not be a smart idea because it would mean I start out too fast but still. When you are out there and know you can do 4 15 min miles and then 3 twenty min miles and you can finish is a good feeling. Funny I was hurt and did not know if my knee would ever take me out but I felt early I was going to finish. Even though I saw the sweep bus follow me on the side of the road alot. It was a very beautiful race though. Basicly running on alot of country roads. Reminds me of the Cary race alot. I would defintely do the race again. Tune in later for my techical race information.

Milwaukee Lakefront.