my old kentucky home

(enhance the atmosphere with some background music) dearest kentucky, it has certainly been an interesting 494 days living in your various metropolis cities such as carrollton and danville (and frankfort). i spent a lot of time on holiday inn express and hampton inn treadmills (116 runs for 772.12 miles to be exact) when your weather was bad or there weren't many roads to run on. when i did...

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this is it

today is friday. may 28th, two thousand ten. but more importantly... it's my last day working in kentucky!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ps: like a week ago i got a package from jill -- m&m's! i'd post a picture but... i ate them too quickly :) thanks jill! i also stumbled...

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in which garmin decides to be my friend

because i had another quality workout on tap, i decided to try the whole "create a workout in the garmin training center and send it to my watch" business again. last time: fail. this time: victory! i swear i did the same things this time around as the last but who knows. in the garmin training center, i went to workouts - new workout - created the steps (intervals) - and added it to the calendar....

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see you in another life, brotha

i scraped together a decent amount of mileage the past two weeks. i wish i was doing more, but i'll take what i can get. hopefully it'll continue to increase instead of my typical slacking off... week in review (5/10 - 5/16): total miles: 33.50 (avg temp 69* f) time spent running: ~ 5 hours 5 minutes avg...

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approaching turn

after being a *bit* lazy friday, i summoned myself out of bed this morning for my long run. it was about 66 degrees but muggy and humid. i've been blessed with a mini-cool front all week in kentucky with temps in the 60s and not humid. i guess it's about time i get used to the good ol' heavy, sticky air. about 8-9 miles into the run it started raining. thank god. if it's going to be this humid anyway...

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garmin 101

ok garmin runners... i need some tutoring. how do you program & upload workouts into it? (i have the 405, if that makes a difference). i tried putting the program into the garmin training center on my computer and then hitting "send to device" but it appears nothing was sent to my watch. yes, the ant+ stick was plugged in to the computer. yesterday (tuesday) was my first quality workout in a...

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back to jack

after taking the rest of april completely off after boston & kentucky derby, i resumed running on may 1st. nothing stellar, nothing fast, nothing long... nothing exciting really. i've been feeling slow on my daily runs and then when i really started to think about it, i haven't done a whole lot of speedwork since before nyc last november. i did some threshold runs and intervals in january/february,...

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domestication take 2

for the record, one definition of "domesticated" per urban dictionary says "gettin civilized. stop sellin drugs, goin back to school, and gettin everything str8 wit yo baby's momma!!!!!!!!!" something like that... in my sweet, innocent, drug-less world i recently found myself tinkering in the kitchen...

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indianapolis monumental marathon & half

thinking about signing up for the indianapolis monumental half- or full marathon? (held nov 6th) use coupon code "Loverunning" when registering to receive a $5 discount. must register by may 17th! register here. [this is a very reasonably priced race - current rates (w/o discount): full $60, half $50. i haven't run this particular race, i just have a coupon for i...

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head case: update

me: hey when you come up can you bring my jack daniels' book?josh: translation... you want to run another marathon already yes... but no. while i am rejuvenated mentally about running, my legs still feel slow and heavy. i am anxious to get into "training mode" again, and i am excited that my motivation is up again. i've been in a little funk since august/september-ish ('09) and never really climbed...

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bahston: boil ya wahtah

it has been raining (and t-storming) for two days straight, which made for a gross weekend and less running that i had hoped. i'm sure i'm better off with a little extra rest, and i'm glad i wasn't out running the flying pig in the pouring rain. today alone we got over 5". how much rain can clouds hold...

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april 2010

april 2009 total mileage: 173.13 time spent running: 24:17:07 days off: 4 (2 planned, 2 not) abs/yoga: 6 ab workouts / 0 yoga sessions avg resting hr: 58 (only checked it twice all month) avg max hr: 184.00 avg temp: 70.90* pushups: 590 april 2010 total mileage: 155.81 time spent running: 23:39:55 days off: 13! (however 10 of those were my post-marathon(s) right to be lazy) abs/yoga: 8 ab workouts/1...

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