Anita’s house sits in a hollow between two pretty good hills. This morning’s run sent me up the bigger of the two. Today’s run was around 7 miles, 9:45 pace, but the was a killer…
Month: May 2007
Posting from sunny San Antonio! We are here on vacation, visiting with family and friends and having a blast.
Found a great running trail from the house yesterday, and today swam at the GORGEOUS NISD Natatorium. 20×25 yard lanes, for $4 per session!! Can’t beat that.
More later!
So far the “every day in May” mantra is working. Even if some of the days only include a weight set, or a short ride with Fran, it counts. Even the 4 hours of trail maintenance counted (as and upper body/core session!). Boy did THAT count.
Let’s see if I can keep it up during my vacation. At the very least I may be in for a week of all running, all the time. Our hotel has an exercise facility, but I’m guessing from the pictures that it is pretty small, with limited equipment. I’ll just have to find places to run!
On a different note, I scrubbed off the old Ubuntu Dapper Drake install, and put on the Feisty Fawn. I expected a HUGE fight with the wireless and WPA2-Personal setup, but lo-&-behold! instructions at UbuntuGuide.org seemed to work flawlessly. I used the instructions that started with
However I found a much easier way to install the drivers, this will probably work on 32 bit as well
I can confirm that they do work with 32-bit FF… The wireless drivers detected that I was running WPA2, prompted for my key and connected me right up. Very, very slick.
Part of my recovery from the DNF-implosion of NJM makes me pay a lot more attention to coaches who have a long history of success. This popped into my head today..
“Most people have the will to win, few have the will to prepare to win” – Bobby Knight
Umm. Yea. Puts a fine point on my lack of training…
Every Day In May…
today 6:00am, 1:03 run, 6.78 miles, legs stiff, heavy and sore.
upper body weights 2:45-3:15.
moving forward…
The sting of the 1st DNF is starting to wear off. I’ve spoken to a bunch of folks who have way more experience than I do in endurance sports, and all have had one or more DNFs.
What I have to remember is that you don’t learn by success, you learn by failure. So this DNF is teaching me some valuable lessons:
- More speedwork – I was totally undertrained for the pace I was trying to maintain. The Monday night track sessions with the Paramount Adventure group are looking promising
- Pacing – When I hit the potty-stop, I should not have tried to bridge up to the pacer. Also known as “Don’t race like a dipshit”
- Train consistently – I can’t believe how sore I am even 4 days later! My consistently inconsistent training is the root cause of the pain. I’m setting a goal of training “every day in May”. It may not be a lot, but I’m shooting to break a sweat each and every day this month. (So far, I’m 3 for 3!)