Yesterday’s Workout Stats:
Route: down to Washington St. and back up
Mileage: 3-4
Time: 36
Best Song: “I Won’t Back Down” by Tom Petty (Oh, the DRAMA.)
Just when I thought it was all over, my body went ahead and surprised me again. The good kind of surprise. I ran last night – 3 or 4 miles – without pain [...]
Entries from January 2008
January 31, 2008
Pain In The …
January 30, 2008
Behold
My marathon singlet.
Where I come from, they call these pinnies. (Remember pinnines?)
This is how I’ll look on game day.
Only a bit less smiley, plus I’ll be wearing a hat. And hopefully I’ll be rockin’ enough hair to pull back into a ponytail. And I’ll surely be drenched in sweat (and begging for PowerBars) once I’ve [...]
January 29, 2008
RICE, Not Just for Eating
I’ve always been a fan of acronyms, spawning from my young days of watching Sleepless in Seattle and marveling at Nora Ephron’s use of such verbal shortcuts as MFEO (Made For Each Other) and H and G (Hi and Goodbye). Fast-forward to middle school and my early AOL days when LOL entered the universal lexicon [...]
January 25, 2008
Stat-Free Post
This post is lonely. So lonely. Hungering for some juicy stats. A route. Some mileage. Just one measly time. And the music – where has all the music gone?
It’s all in one place. One crabby, burning, irritated place. The shins. No, not those Shins . These.
Dang. They still hurt.
So after two sessions of pinching, squeezing, [...]
January 22, 2008
Un–Fun Run #5
Saturday’s Workout Stats:
Route: from my couch to the fridge and back again
Mileage: <1
Time: infinity + eleventy jillion boring, motionless minutes
Best Song: the theme to Run’s House
First, let’s get this out of the way (here’s a little foreshadowing for you literary-types): there was no fun run for me, in fact, there was no fun at all [...]
January 17, 2008
Oh, MAN!
Lance Armstrong is running the marathon too.
Why is EVERYONE trying to steal my thunder?
Unless, of course, his fabulous girlfriend, Tory Burch is handing these out. Then, I’ll reconsider my aversion to Lance, the great, yellow thunder stealer.
Until then, I have this to say: You may be Armstong, but I’m Legstrong, so look out!
January 17, 2008
Fun Run #4
Workout Stats:
Route: Upper Falls through Waban, N. Highlands, N. Center, N.ville and back again (a running tour of Newton)
Mileage: 9
Time: 82:31
Best Song: “Life is a Highway” by Tom Cochrane
I owe you a fun run post. So, better late than never, here it is:
I overslept this week. Or, rather, my alarm blew it. Can you blame [...]
January 17, 2008
Cliche Realized
Wednesday’s Workout Stats:
Route: up to Center St., down to Washington St. & back
Mileage: 4 +
Time: ?
Best Song: “Love Song” by Sarah Bareillis
Shin splints, my friends. I have shin splints. What a terrible, lame, weak, first-time marathoner cliché. I’ve taken on too much, too fast, as they say, and I’ve earned myself a pair of aching [...]
January 11, 2008
Upon Further Inspection
Tuesday’s Workout Stats:
Route: up to BC Main Gate and back
Mileage: 5-6
Time: 51:55
Best Song: “The Underdog” by Spoon
So it turns out the bottom of Heartbreak Hill isn’t at Mile 20. It turns out Heartbreak Hill actually only refers to the final of four treacherous Newton hills. The one that runs from Miles 20 to 21. The [...]
