As part of my plan to reinvent myself as an extreme endurance athlete, I am reworking my training for the new year.  Here is my rough plan that I am easing into right now.

Nathan McScary's Extreme Hardcore Monsterman Endurance Plan

Monday - Resistance training, 3-4 mile run.

Tuesday - Speed training 2-4 mile run with intervals.

Wednesday - Rest.

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2011 Highlights:

-  Got CPR AED and First Aid certified.

-  Went to IJA 2011 and got to see and train with some of the best jugglers in the world.  Also went to and helped plan the 2011 Ann Arbor Juggling Festival.

-  Got much better at juggling and learned some new things, including a six ball qualify.

-  Went to three kickass concerts (all by myself ( Read more... )

Last post was on goals on specific types of races that I want to do someday.  This post will focus on overall goals for 2012.  Goals are broken up into three catagories.

1.  Bare Minimum - The absolute LEAST I want to accomplish in 2012.  Must meet these to feel like I actually succeeded with my endurance athlete transformation.  Bare minimum goals ( Read more... )

One of the things that appeals to me about doing races is the diversity of the various types of events.  Rather than stick with a single distance/type of run, I am more interested in checking out the eccentric, and the unusual, as well as doing a few staple types to get as many unique adventures under my belt as I can.  Right now, there are six ( Read more... )

In 2005, I was involved in a very serious car accident in which both of my legs were badly broken.  I had to have metal rods and screws put into both legs so that they could heal properly.  This was a very dark period in my life that involved me having to drop out of school, confined to a wheelchair, being depressed, and becoming addicted to pain ( Read more... )

Last couple runs have been fun.  I ran the Haunted Graveyard 5K at Oakwood Cemetery dressed as a zombie and somehow managed to get a new PR (22:29) despite all the hills as well as winning second place in my division and first place in the scariest costume contest (won a hat and glass).  A couple weeks later, I joggled the Lincoln Elementary school ( Read more... )

Over the summer, I worked really hard on some new video projects, which I recently completed.  Here they are along with write ups describing their creative process, production, and the (often overlooked) hard work that went into them.

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This first one is a music video to the title track off of my last electronic album.  For a concept, I wanted ( Read more... )

Dating back to my teenage years, I have always trained alone.  Like most things in my life, it feels much more natural to do by myself, and I rarely find anyone that shares the same training mindset as myself anyways (especially in the realm of consistency).  However, I have come to the conclusion that the only way I can truly reach my real ( Read more... )

Of all the recent posts I have had on running, this is easily the hardest one to write.  My thoughts are hard to articulate (a psychologist could probably explain myself better), though I will do my best.

I do not really like running.  I hate it less than I used to, but I don't like it.  I'm not competitive, I have no runner friends, and I have bad ( Read more... )

Last Saturday, I entered the Clinton Fall Festival 5K day of race on a whim.  I wanted to get a new 5K PR before the end of the year as well as try a new faster start technique and this seemed like a good run to try it out on.

As soon as the race started, something very strange happened; I immediately darted off the starting line faster than I ever ( Read more... )