My vote for worst job of the year, being a judge at this contest!

But yeah, 7 miles to me is LSD now, and most of my runs are in the neighborhood of 3-5. Lots of speedy repeats, plus I actually introduced cross-training (*gasp*). Usually I would just fit another running day in if I had time, but with all the speed my legs enjoy time off so I have taken up swimming now. I suck at it, but man it is a good workout.

I’m sure that’s 5lbs. of muscle, you work too hard for it not to be. I was just watching the Olympic trials last night and those shorter race people have so much muscle…very different bodies. That’s pretty much what you’re up to, right? Short bursts of speed and strength.

Good luck tomorrow. Yeah, stupid forecast is full of 90s this week. Yuck.

A local bar had a contest last week called something like “gas for gas.” It was an on-stage farting contest, with a $100 gas card for first place. I _so_ wish I could have made it

17 miles – impressive to a short-distance-nowadays guy like myself. I miss heading out for a couple of hours, but my wife likes it better. Happy wife, happy life, ya know. I am so glad I do not need to mess with nutrition yet, but I did notice one side effect of lowering my mileage – a gain of about 5 pounds. Maybe it is muscle, due to the lifting, eh? Sure, that is what I am telling myself.

This heat does suck rotten ass doesn’t it? I get to look forward to speedwork intermixed with grass drills/pushups/torture tomorrow when it is forecast to be 90 F out. Yay.

Yeah, the gel adventure has been quite fun, but I promise to start writing about other subjects asap. Good luck with your own nutritional experimentation.

In the meantime, here’s to a few weeks of 50 degrees and sun! Like that’ll happen.