i was fried today. half the team is sick. literally. me too, some kind of sore throat wheezy lung thing. i knew i had no chance running w/ the varsity, so i ran w/ the varsity girls... on a different track...
4:15, 4:06, 4:00, 4:00...
only one girl was able to run more than 2, that was faster than the JV boy runners, but still. i was wheezing. when my form went to hell, my lungs turned into some kind of broken vacuumn cleaner.
the course was significantly longer: the guy who ran 2:55 for his fastest last week, running 6, only ran 5, w/ 3:30 as his fastest time... so not a complete debacle... but all things considered (sick, hammy) did fine. hammy was significantly better than even yesterday, but there is no way i could have shaved off the 15 seconds i needed to shave to 'move up' today... c'est la vie.
sun don't shine on the same dog's butt everyday.
yesterday (tuesday) 25 miles of biking, hit tennis balls for a while, core workout, 3 hours of juggling.
monday, 4.3 mile run, 45 minutes of tennis, 15 miles of biking
sunday, uh, 20 plus miles of biking, 30 minutes of roller skiing, 2 games of limply (hammy) frisbee...
saturday, 5 mile run at the site of the race (and probably, point zero of infection, at least, the crowded bus ride)... but i'm no epidemiologist. could have gotten it weeks ago.
friday, ok, i see i'm overlapping...
school still hard, 10-12 hour days, but in good news, due to a grant, i look to be getting a laptop in the next couple months: it's hard to go back into the school at 6 pm after school and coaching and enter grades: this way, i can bring it home and accomplish a few things at the house...
ate... 8 pieces of fruit, sandwich, raisin bran, soup, salad... couple beers, just for the carbs, of course.
Wednesday, September 27, 2006
Sunday, September 24, 2006
stuff...
reviewing the blogosphere, idris cares about rules, kd is on fire, and not much shaking in boston... and me, well, i'm good to talk about me.
thursday, real sore from 6x1000. friday, same. went to the beach, and threw into a gnarly upwind for about an hour. really fun. (the team had a race this weekend). ate some production spaghetti, juggled, went to the oregon coast town of seaside and had a rediculous icecream brownie sunday, juggled for a while and made a dollar (i returned it), chaperoned a dorm w/ 5/12 kids snoring.
ran a little on race day, still sore, (the boys placed 4th, missing a top runner, girls were 1st, yeah team), spent several hours on the bus working on a mail in test for a coaching certification...
sunday (today) still sore. i know. i'd think i'm 'injured' but... it... just... doesn't... feel like it...
helped w/ the team in a race (we marshall it to raise money), roller skied (3 x 5 minutes double pole, 3 x 5 minutes no pole... just drills to help the muscles and balance), biked 25 miles commuting around, played in 2 ultimate frisbee games... still... unbelievably sore. tommorrow, run, play tennis... bike.
you
thursday, real sore from 6x1000. friday, same. went to the beach, and threw into a gnarly upwind for about an hour. really fun. (the team had a race this weekend). ate some production spaghetti, juggled, went to the oregon coast town of seaside and had a rediculous icecream brownie sunday, juggled for a while and made a dollar (i returned it), chaperoned a dorm w/ 5/12 kids snoring.
ran a little on race day, still sore, (the boys placed 4th, missing a top runner, girls were 1st, yeah team), spent several hours on the bus working on a mail in test for a coaching certification...
sunday (today) still sore. i know. i'd think i'm 'injured' but... it... just... doesn't... feel like it...
helped w/ the team in a race (we marshall it to raise money), roller skied (3 x 5 minutes double pole, 3 x 5 minutes no pole... just drills to help the muscles and balance), biked 25 miles commuting around, played in 2 ultimate frisbee games... still... unbelievably sore. tommorrow, run, play tennis... bike.
you
Wednesday, September 20, 2006
push it a long...
1000 repeats today. I guess I'm getting better, which is pretty normal for a guy in his mid 20's.
Checking the blog, on
9/29/2005 3:42, 3:49, 3:49, 3:49, 3:34.
10/3/2005 3:41, 3:38, 3:38, 3:40, 3:30
9/20/2006 3:37, 3:25, 3:21, 3:20, 3:16, 3:16
exact same course, so unless they've added a newer more resillient bark chip, I guess I"m a bit faster than last year, and I did 6. Today's top runner went...3:40, 3:30, 3:20, 3:10, 3:03, 2:55, which is a much cleaner workout than mine (see the nice even knockdowns?) I think that he and the rest of the varsity guys could have run their easy ones faster, and gone for 3-5 second cut downs instead of 10 second. but a bunch of them blew up in the miles last week, so we deliberately held them back a little. they could make a huge improvement (not as likely for me, but i'll be out there). It's very misleading... this guy would go 2 minutes faster than me in a race... i'm sure.
I guess that somewhat faster pace explains the complaints from all of the banjo string like hamstrings... But no complaints, I was pretty maxed out, and the numbers, while generally not important, don't lie. so it was a good day...
The big question is, am i training for pride, ego, or vanity. Cause I don't have any races scheduled, except for a grudge match in december w/ one of the skiers with huge stakes... i guess i just want to be fit for life... fun to see improvement... but really, i'm training for...
a cliff bar. the big reward for winning a 5k in december.
yesterday, largely rest: got in some jugggling, a couple hours of guitar, probably 1/2 - 3/4 mile of unibiking (still can't free start), and i have yet to get a properly sized one... super fun. and biked the least in months: 6 miles... i caught a ride home from the open house... (At school to 8:30, i forgot my light).
Monday, 4.3 mile run, and 40 minutes of whacking around tennis balls.
academic highlights, the standing 'O' the 52 kids in government class give me, the fun of making 4 versions of a test for that class that were really just 2 versions that i scribbled '3' and '4' on a couple before making copies... the kids thought i took this no cheatin' thing seriously... the first class of the day is suprising bubbly in the A.M... But, I'm sort of tired w/ over 200 kids' names to learn, etc... kids are doing the work, reading, discussing, engaging... life is good.
Checking the blog, on
9/29/2005 3:42, 3:49, 3:49, 3:49, 3:34.
10/3/2005 3:41, 3:38, 3:38, 3:40, 3:30
9/20/2006 3:37, 3:25, 3:21, 3:20, 3:16, 3:16
exact same course, so unless they've added a newer more resillient bark chip, I guess I"m a bit faster than last year, and I did 6. Today's top runner went...3:40, 3:30, 3:20, 3:10, 3:03, 2:55, which is a much cleaner workout than mine (see the nice even knockdowns?) I think that he and the rest of the varsity guys could have run their easy ones faster, and gone for 3-5 second cut downs instead of 10 second. but a bunch of them blew up in the miles last week, so we deliberately held them back a little. they could make a huge improvement (not as likely for me, but i'll be out there). It's very misleading... this guy would go 2 minutes faster than me in a race... i'm sure.
I guess that somewhat faster pace explains the complaints from all of the banjo string like hamstrings... But no complaints, I was pretty maxed out, and the numbers, while generally not important, don't lie. so it was a good day...
The big question is, am i training for pride, ego, or vanity. Cause I don't have any races scheduled, except for a grudge match in december w/ one of the skiers with huge stakes... i guess i just want to be fit for life... fun to see improvement... but really, i'm training for...
a cliff bar. the big reward for winning a 5k in december.
yesterday, largely rest: got in some jugggling, a couple hours of guitar, probably 1/2 - 3/4 mile of unibiking (still can't free start), and i have yet to get a properly sized one... super fun. and biked the least in months: 6 miles... i caught a ride home from the open house... (At school to 8:30, i forgot my light).
Monday, 4.3 mile run, and 40 minutes of whacking around tennis balls.
academic highlights, the standing 'O' the 52 kids in government class give me, the fun of making 4 versions of a test for that class that were really just 2 versions that i scribbled '3' and '4' on a couple before making copies... the kids thought i took this no cheatin' thing seriously... the first class of the day is suprising bubbly in the A.M... But, I'm sort of tired w/ over 200 kids' names to learn, etc... kids are doing the work, reading, discussing, engaging... life is good.
Sunday, September 17, 2006
well hell...
idris is down... down...
so i might as well post my bs, non ultimate related shit...
hippo defeats rhino. i was invited to play. could i have contributed? hellifino? i did play ultimate today at 'bend league play' and i was on. but it's hard to say. i was exciteometereriffic. that is, every time i touched it, i threw a goal, caught a coal, or threw a turnover, in the goal.
is that good enough to put me on the 4th best team in the nw? well, my defense was, uh, horrific. that is to say, not at all. so could i have muscled up in the 'big game?' shit. i don't know. i'dve tried...
but i was throwing like a god, and i got a couple handblocks.
am i missing regionals? well, yeah, but, i mean? i think i have somethin to coach that weekeknd.
i had dinner w/ a former athlete's family (and a current athlete) and that was cool.
the new roller skis were SUHWEET. pretty amazing to do something scary. got in one hour of juggling. also, 25 miles of biking... and a mile of joggling for warmup...
highlight of the day? i got a 100 gig harddrive of music coming...
what's missing? i wish i'd been throwing every day for a month... note to self, note to others: i got A LOT better at throwing when i started coaching throwing...
so i might as well post my bs, non ultimate related shit...
hippo defeats rhino. i was invited to play. could i have contributed? hellifino? i did play ultimate today at 'bend league play' and i was on. but it's hard to say. i was exciteometereriffic. that is, every time i touched it, i threw a goal, caught a coal, or threw a turnover, in the goal.
is that good enough to put me on the 4th best team in the nw? well, my defense was, uh, horrific. that is to say, not at all. so could i have muscled up in the 'big game?' shit. i don't know. i'dve tried...
but i was throwing like a god, and i got a couple handblocks.
am i missing regionals? well, yeah, but, i mean? i think i have somethin to coach that weekeknd.
i had dinner w/ a former athlete's family (and a current athlete) and that was cool.
the new roller skis were SUHWEET. pretty amazing to do something scary. got in one hour of juggling. also, 25 miles of biking... and a mile of joggling for warmup...
highlight of the day? i got a 100 gig harddrive of music coming...
what's missing? i wish i'd been throwing every day for a month... note to self, note to others: i got A LOT better at throwing when i started coaching throwing...
Saturday, September 16, 2006
new toys...
not christmas... but payday is coming, and i demo'd some new roller skis. the aero V2.. i took them out for a demo today... just 25 minutes... mainly double poling (like, you don't do the skating motion, you just double pole. It's very specifically good). yes i wore dorky knee pads. yes, i took a mild spill on the rough road. i lived. we've had our first snow. 4-6 inches at 5000 feet. (i'm at 3500). winter is coming.
i also threw in a little unicycling, and some juggling. and 12 or so miles of biking around for commuting. messed around w/ the guitar for a couple hours. still awful. i also took a course in teaching me to be a better coach. here is what the 6 hours taught me. "kids, don't do drugs. coaches, don't date kids. hitting is discouraged." but i got a bunch of fruit and sandwiches out of the deal
but i think i probably could have guessed most of that information on the pretest.
I had to miss the students racing for this. While I'm never enthusiastic about 7 hours in a bus, I like to be there for the races.
I watched a good movie. District B13. I guess the best term is french kung fu. pretty sweet.
Tommorrow, i'll bike, do another, longer roller ski (i'll bike somewhere with the roller skis and use them on better pavement, and actually skate a little), and if the weather holds, i'll play ultimate. if the weather is iffy, i'll mountain bike instead. then, i have to return the roller skis.
Yesterday, biked just for commuting, and hit tennis balls for an hour. Oh, and taught and shit.
Thursday, kind of an adventure race/hash race for the team. I won, I guess. i'm undefeated in high school adventure racing for 3 years. It's kind of like Mitch Hedburg promising to kick ass in little league if he could play now. (note: Mitch Hedburg, is now dead, and cannot play now). So this one was for Mitch.
This week, 1000 repeats. I'll see if my new shoes the (i'm not making this up) nimbus 2001's are better than my adidas supernovas.
that's all.
i also threw in a little unicycling, and some juggling. and 12 or so miles of biking around for commuting. messed around w/ the guitar for a couple hours. still awful. i also took a course in teaching me to be a better coach. here is what the 6 hours taught me. "kids, don't do drugs. coaches, don't date kids. hitting is discouraged." but i got a bunch of fruit and sandwiches out of the deal
but i think i probably could have guessed most of that information on the pretest.
I had to miss the students racing for this. While I'm never enthusiastic about 7 hours in a bus, I like to be there for the races.
I watched a good movie. District B13. I guess the best term is french kung fu. pretty sweet.
Tommorrow, i'll bike, do another, longer roller ski (i'll bike somewhere with the roller skis and use them on better pavement, and actually skate a little), and if the weather holds, i'll play ultimate. if the weather is iffy, i'll mountain bike instead. then, i have to return the roller skis.
Yesterday, biked just for commuting, and hit tennis balls for an hour. Oh, and taught and shit.
Thursday, kind of an adventure race/hash race for the team. I won, I guess. i'm undefeated in high school adventure racing for 3 years. It's kind of like Mitch Hedburg promising to kick ass in little league if he could play now. (note: Mitch Hedburg, is now dead, and cannot play now). So this one was for Mitch.
This week, 1000 repeats. I'll see if my new shoes the (i'm not making this up) nimbus 2001's are better than my adidas supernovas.
that's all.
Wednesday, September 13, 2006
miles
today was mile repeats.... i did 4, at 6, 5:55, 5:50, and the last, a cruiser, at 5:57. mile warmupu, and a true cool down...
i did 5 repeats last year, according to the blog. if i'd known that, i'd have cranked out another. last year, 6:18, :15, :15, :05, :10.
the last was fun. i roped in 3 of the varsity guys who had 'blown up' and were kind of cooked, and we worked on pace lining in the stiff upwind for about 600 yards... that was the 5:57. i think we could have gone (well, i could have gone) 6 seconds faster if the lead runners had pushed a little more... that is, one guy would lead for a few seconds, and drift off. if we had done it better, we could have cut a great deal of time off.
the draft was sweet, and it was a great object lesson in team work...
hopefully, it's a workout we get to repeat.
yesterday, 35 minutes, unicycled, guitar, juggled...
monday, 55 minute run...
sunday, 52 miles of biking (16 on the trail) and rode all three bikes between errands, and a flat tire... also ran and threw a bit, and played 2 points of pickup ultimate (two touches, one flick huck, one hammer/blade to corner).... saw the davinci code. ok movie...
saturday... i don't remember... seems like... oh i rode around and worked at a car wash... and a sweet napoleon dynamite party...
really can't remember before that...
oh yeah... thursday, ran my first race in 3 years... did ok. i'm hangin' steady in the top 10 on the team (if i were on the team)... we'll see what that means. they came in second in state last year... i was... like top 30 out of a say 125 guys... lost to a girl...
but she's sort of a stud. and i had to pay up, w/ a pint of haagendaazs.
wednesday, rode 30 miles, ran 6, w/ some pickups (100/200/400/400/200/100) in the middle (included in distance)...
tuesday... uh, i can't remember...
that's all. i have aeon flux to watch tonight. i assume it sucks. but, it's free from the library. unlike glory road, which was 'OK', which i think i'm about to buy if i don't get it back to blockbuster...
i did 5 repeats last year, according to the blog. if i'd known that, i'd have cranked out another. last year, 6:18, :15, :15, :05, :10.
the last was fun. i roped in 3 of the varsity guys who had 'blown up' and were kind of cooked, and we worked on pace lining in the stiff upwind for about 600 yards... that was the 5:57. i think we could have gone (well, i could have gone) 6 seconds faster if the lead runners had pushed a little more... that is, one guy would lead for a few seconds, and drift off. if we had done it better, we could have cut a great deal of time off.
the draft was sweet, and it was a great object lesson in team work...
hopefully, it's a workout we get to repeat.
yesterday, 35 minutes, unicycled, guitar, juggled...
monday, 55 minute run...
sunday, 52 miles of biking (16 on the trail) and rode all three bikes between errands, and a flat tire... also ran and threw a bit, and played 2 points of pickup ultimate (two touches, one flick huck, one hammer/blade to corner).... saw the davinci code. ok movie...
saturday... i don't remember... seems like... oh i rode around and worked at a car wash... and a sweet napoleon dynamite party...
really can't remember before that...
oh yeah... thursday, ran my first race in 3 years... did ok. i'm hangin' steady in the top 10 on the team (if i were on the team)... we'll see what that means. they came in second in state last year... i was... like top 30 out of a say 125 guys... lost to a girl...
but she's sort of a stud. and i had to pay up, w/ a pint of haagendaazs.
wednesday, rode 30 miles, ran 6, w/ some pickups (100/200/400/400/200/100) in the middle (included in distance)...
tuesday... uh, i can't remember...
that's all. i have aeon flux to watch tonight. i assume it sucks. but, it's free from the library. unlike glory road, which was 'OK', which i think i'm about to buy if i don't get it back to blockbuster...
Sunday, September 03, 2006
a bunch of stuff you don't care about...
...at least if you are reading this over at the meta blog ultimatetalk.com...
but, while i'm here...
OK, i'll admit it... i'm a farce... my frisbee playing has been almost non existent lately... i still hang out w/ frisbee players (housemates, former coachees), still like to throw... still throw well... well... well... great... if only the receivers knew what to do w/ out the back throws...
honestly, i'm kind of doing too much 'stuff' (running/biking) to play much ulti... that is... i can't tack on the extra suprise workout these days and have it be a sprint workout... i prefer my faster stuff to come in the context of the team workouts, or as pickups or intervals on the bike... but now that school has started, and i can only excercise once per day... (plus commuting... 4.9 miles one way) , plus weights... well, i will start playing...
in the mean time... the blog...
i had a great summer... i worked at a bike ride as a baggage handler... an elaborate, and hopefully humorous photo essay will follow... or maybe you'll just get some bogus paste eating thing... but where i never intended to put any video of me eating paste... i do intend to put funny pictures w/ captions up... perhaps even mildly self mocking... stay tuned... and the story of the secret door is coming...
my biking has been outrageous... by my standards... i can now do this neato 27 mile, 3000 vertical gain ride (and then back down for 54 miles total) in pretty good form... not that big a deal for real riders, but pretty cool for me... and while for lance, it may not be about the bike... my 20 speed makes it... uh... funner... (but not easier... you need a triple chain ring... like a mountain bike, or a touring bike... for that)...
running is steady... i'm yet again... on the 'jv' for a team that has a decent shot at medaling at state... based on the 'time trial'... you can see it at summitxc.com. find results/2006/time trial.
clark (head coach) put me down as joe b-a. it's actually supposed to be joe k-a. you translate.
also: i can now juggle 4 adequately(well, depends on your standards... 5 or 6 seconds, for sure), ride the unicycle about 450 feet... goal is 6 miles in 2 weeks, and basically unlimited on the 4 balls... or tricks... why should you (the frisbee populace care?)... well... remember how much fun it was however many years ago learning something new (Frisbee?) and being enthralled by both the challenge, and the improvement? if you don't, learn something new... if you do, then you know what i mean... it's both improving my balance and coordination, and getting me fired up to dominate on the field... whether it's tempe or hotbox... see my rec.sport.disc post re: playmaker...
whether it will turn me into a triple threat... ask billy berrou... for non frisbee types... he's a famous wacko, who hates ultimate... but talks about it all the time... don't ask..
beyond that... today... i read 'we die alone' , an amazing story of a scandahoovian who battled germans, elements, and lapplandish sense of nonhumor during ww2. pretty good.
now (and it's late) i'm going to go watch an hour or so of glory road about basketball... first all black team... should be good...
on to the mundane...
lessee... today, sunday, 14 miles biking, 1 hour juggling, 30 minutes unicycling (actually a good workout), 1 hour learning guitar, read a book, watched agassi's last match.
saturday, 54 miles riding, up to mt. bachelor, watched the race... link to follow... juggle, unicycle
friday... easy... games w/ team...commuting only... i think? juggle, unicycle
thursday... team time trial, juggle, unibike, then foolishly played ultimate... almost reinjured hammy...
wednesday... 6 k easy run, then, preran a course (photos to follow) w/ a 1.8 mile warmup...(4.8 total miles)
tuesday... seems like it was an easy run... modest bike like 35 for the day (miles)?
monday... heck if i know... so long ago... easy run... oh no... that's the day i showed up w/ two right shoes, and so ended up doing an easy 8 mile bike ride... rest day...
there you are loyal reader... comment away...
and idris (host of ultimate talk)... hope adding links later doesn't screw things up...
but, while i'm here...
OK, i'll admit it... i'm a farce... my frisbee playing has been almost non existent lately... i still hang out w/ frisbee players (housemates, former coachees), still like to throw... still throw well... well... well... great... if only the receivers knew what to do w/ out the back throws...
honestly, i'm kind of doing too much 'stuff' (running/biking) to play much ulti... that is... i can't tack on the extra suprise workout these days and have it be a sprint workout... i prefer my faster stuff to come in the context of the team workouts, or as pickups or intervals on the bike... but now that school has started, and i can only excercise once per day... (plus commuting... 4.9 miles one way) , plus weights... well, i will start playing...
in the mean time... the blog...
i had a great summer... i worked at a bike ride as a baggage handler... an elaborate, and hopefully humorous photo essay will follow... or maybe you'll just get some bogus paste eating thing... but where i never intended to put any video of me eating paste... i do intend to put funny pictures w/ captions up... perhaps even mildly self mocking... stay tuned... and the story of the secret door is coming...
my biking has been outrageous... by my standards... i can now do this neato 27 mile, 3000 vertical gain ride (and then back down for 54 miles total) in pretty good form... not that big a deal for real riders, but pretty cool for me... and while for lance, it may not be about the bike... my 20 speed makes it... uh... funner... (but not easier... you need a triple chain ring... like a mountain bike, or a touring bike... for that)...
running is steady... i'm yet again... on the 'jv' for a team that has a decent shot at medaling at state... based on the 'time trial'... you can see it at summitxc.com. find results/2006/time trial.
clark (head coach) put me down as joe b-a. it's actually supposed to be joe k-a. you translate.
also: i can now juggle 4 adequately(well, depends on your standards... 5 or 6 seconds, for sure), ride the unicycle about 450 feet... goal is 6 miles in 2 weeks, and basically unlimited on the 4 balls... or tricks... why should you (the frisbee populace care?)... well... remember how much fun it was however many years ago learning something new (Frisbee?) and being enthralled by both the challenge, and the improvement? if you don't, learn something new... if you do, then you know what i mean... it's both improving my balance and coordination, and getting me fired up to dominate on the field... whether it's tempe or hotbox... see my rec.sport.disc post re: playmaker...
whether it will turn me into a triple threat... ask billy berrou... for non frisbee types... he's a famous wacko, who hates ultimate... but talks about it all the time... don't ask..
beyond that... today... i read 'we die alone' , an amazing story of a scandahoovian who battled germans, elements, and lapplandish sense of nonhumor during ww2. pretty good.
now (and it's late) i'm going to go watch an hour or so of glory road about basketball... first all black team... should be good...
on to the mundane...
lessee... today, sunday, 14 miles biking, 1 hour juggling, 30 minutes unicycling (actually a good workout), 1 hour learning guitar, read a book, watched agassi's last match.
saturday, 54 miles riding, up to mt. bachelor, watched the race... link to follow... juggle, unicycle
friday... easy... games w/ team...commuting only... i think? juggle, unicycle
thursday... team time trial, juggle, unibike, then foolishly played ultimate... almost reinjured hammy...
wednesday... 6 k easy run, then, preran a course (photos to follow) w/ a 1.8 mile warmup...(4.8 total miles)
tuesday... seems like it was an easy run... modest bike like 35 for the day (miles)?
monday... heck if i know... so long ago... easy run... oh no... that's the day i showed up w/ two right shoes, and so ended up doing an easy 8 mile bike ride... rest day...
there you are loyal reader... comment away...
and idris (host of ultimate talk)... hope adding links later doesn't screw things up...
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