Roxbury
6.4 mile "race" but talleyed up 10 for the day. 53 so far in 5 days. going for 60 in 6 days this week. so andrew and i took it pretty easy today at roxbury and were running doggystyle with pretty even/average splits the whole time. in the beginning some real psycho lady tried drafting off of us so andrew and i threw in a little surge to drop her. she yelled out, "i'll get you you fucking boys! i know you'll fade!" quite atypical for the pretty easy going roxbury regulars. we just laughed and beat her by about 10 minutes. she was grunting and doing weird snorting noises while finishing. good day on the whole and think the confidence is on the rise. get at me.

PM run at Candlewood Mtn
easy run. felt pretty decent. 6 miles. jovial talk and fun for all. 10 on the day. don't really have much to say about this one.

AM run at New Milford HS
warmup, 6x200, warmdown. 4 miles.
really didn't know what to expect going into this quasi workout/glorified strides. andrew and i surprised ourselves a little and found out we haven't lost all that much speed. started out at 30 and hit most at 28. felt pretty good aside from my usual wheezing from my cold.

river road
Mood:  chillin'
Now Playing: random guitar by andrew
pulled a pretty big sandbagger move and took yesterday off because i was feeling super crappy. probably a good move in retrospect. felt really strong today. 10 miles on river road with andrew at a really good pace. good for the ego. easy strides.

Lake Waramug
Mood:  hug me
pretty terrible long run at lake waramug. 14 miles of tedious heavy-legged running. longest run of the year so far. was a pretty mentally exhausting run and i think i psyched myself out for it because loops around the lake are like 7.5 miles long and i had to do almost two of them. ran by myself most of it because andrew kept dropping off. felt dehydrated and annoyed as usual. jumped in the lake and lay there like a retarded fat blob.

ct- canterbury
Mood:  suave
Now Playing: out on my porch - andrew levy
started the run at the canterbury track (i just made a really lame joke but deleted it). went down and partied on the new MILFord 8 mile course for a few miles and felt crappy with cramps and such, probs pms related, rocked back up canterbury hill(mountain) in 7:26 and was feeling pretty decent and rolled barefoot on the track for 3 more miles in cruise control. 9 on the day. strides afterward and blew several snot rockets prompting my parents to attempt to disown me.

connecticut
rando run on candlewood mtn road for 6 miles. rounds out 60 miles for the week. felt ok in the beginning and gradually deteriorated to feeling crappy by the end. many ups and downs to the week. not looking foreward to a week of running here.

New Milford 8 miler
was pretty nervous for this because of my terrible showing last weekend and my bad week of training. andrew forced me to wear my racing flats because he was wearing his cubatos automatically escalating the pressure. 11 miles on the day. start of the race was pretty conservative, 6:02, 6:20, 6:16 (pretty hilly mile, don't know why i went faster), 6:11, 6:18, 6:12, 7:05 (probably the hardest hill mile of all time), 5:22 (downhill but really dogged it, 4:52 is pr). So 49:49 for the whole race, ran 49:37 last year but definately started cruising after the 3rd mile and let people pass me on the downhills. dogged the last mile so i guess i could have taken down last year's time but i would have liked to dummy my old time. 25th overall. just looking at the splits you probably wont realize that this is the hilliest course ever; I just am a hill machine and a metronome. Peacetron my nay nays.

Nantucket
wow. recovery day, 6 miles and definately needed. legs felt really stale but aerobically felt ok. really depressed at this terrible week of running and how i will fare at the 8 miler. as i say and andrew adamantly refutes, bad days tell more than good days. strides after.

p.s- this is what the alphabet would look like if q and r didn't exist

p.p.s- i just copied that line from mitch hedberg and used the same entry twice. it still applies.

Nantucket
wow. recovery day, 6 miles and definately needed. legs felt really stale but aerobically felt ok. really depressed at this terrible week of running and how i will fare at the 8 miler. as i say and andrew adamantly refutes, bad days tell more than good days. strides after.

Nantucket
Again 9 miles of terribleness. Pretty much similar to yesterday but not as bad. Terrible run with no real purpose just mobbing around a small section of Nantucket with numerous "bathroom episodes" if you will.

Nantucket
13 mile out and back long run. pretty miserable run but best one of the week. legs a little sluggish and andrew and i hardly said anything to each other the whole time. basically ran across nantucket to this beach, took a poop in a nice port-o-potty and ran back. strides finally made the legs feel decent.

Nantucket
Feel like a huge sandbagger for taking off yesterday, making today the first run in Nantucket. Luckily I'm updating this a week later because I would have blown up if I did this that night. One of my worst runs ever. 9 miles and Andrew and I stopped numerous times for numerous "bathroom episodes" if you will. Rediculously frustrating, slow and terrible. No strides.

Roxbury
4.8 mile "race" for 8.2 on the day. Probably the most depressing day of the summer, the day that I realize I am in terrible shape and probably should put butter on a frisbee and try to eat it. The game plan was for Andrew and I to stay chill and back in the pack the first mile and gradually move up running around 6mins a mile until we layed the dummy hand on them all striking fear into the hearts of many men. In reality we were pretty close to the game plan, 6:13 the first mile but I was feeling not so good, dropped a 6:01, a 6:23 (hilly mile), and a 5:59 4th mile but I was definately not feeling as spry as I would have liked. My dummy hand was also pretty weak as I passed Ken "The Dangerous aka Danger Man" Merrick and was pretty tired. Last .8 at 5:4x pace. So basically I am terrible and hate myself. The depression continues.

PM party at the rock
easy/avg day at the rock in the rain with andrew. 8.25 miles, felt nice to run in the sloppiness of the trails. pace was pretty average and i felt pretty decent, a little aerobically tired but whatev.

AM swim
had a quasi swim lesson and the lady told me my stroke was almost perfect meaning it was a huge waste because i am a terrible swimmer. i did learn how to make my flip turns much better, however, i still look like a sloppy orcha whale but i'm working on it. about half a mile total, 1/4 mile at the end continuous (8 laps) in 7:23. not too tough an effort.

PM party at the rock
average day at the rock. 9 miles. decent/avg pace. felt ok, a little sloppy at times but good at the end. saw khalid khannouchi while running and he was like hey you guys are so much faster than i am. we were like, obvs doo, we know. we saw him again in the parking lot and he was wearing half tights proving that it's cool to wear them except for andrew in his british ones.

AM swim
really good swim and i got new goggles right before. that's probably why i swam well. people at the pool definately think i'm a much better swimmer than i am because of my shaved legs and fancy goggles now. too bad i'm terrible. 1 mile (66 laps for the laymen)33:27 and really was just cruising with no breaks. pimp.

party at the rock
easy day. 7 miles. legs a little sluggish until last hill; i find that the big hill at the end going up to the parking lot (for all you rockefeller connoisseurs) makes me feel good. weird. strides afterwards.

party at the rock
long run, 12 miles. felt ok but towards end legs started to really feel shitty but andrew kept the pace honest until we got to the track. 2 barefoot miles. last one 5:38 but felt crappy.