...and sometimes that rain makes mud.  And sometimes runners slip in that mud, manage to embed a rock in their elbows, and have to dig the rocks out with knives.  What a day.  And it's only 8:00.

50 mile week and no sign of slowing down.  The last five weeks have been 40-45-50-45-50.  I'm having trouble with the heat and the lack of cover from the sun here, and there is still an annoying pain in my calf that goes away a few minutes into the run, but otherwise I feel pretty good.  The last time I felt this good in July was back in 2004.  The ( Read more... )

I just had a three hour phone conversation with Brian.  I have no idea what we talked about, or even if we talked about anything.  Ladies and gentlemen, this is true brotherhood.  Man I love being an athlete.  We've been doing this for seven years now and it never gets old.

Life is a whole lot better these days.  Everything seems to be going right, except of course that my calf still hurts on and off and...well, OK, that's about it.

So far my job is awesome.  And no, I can't tell you what I'm working on.

I'm in Oslo.  It's pretty expensive here.  Tomorrow I'm going to run to the Bislett stadium, where the women's 5000 world record was run almost exactly a year ago!

I've been on and off injured for the past four years.  I kept hoping I'd get another chance to race well on the track, and so far I haven't had that chance.  It looks like, unless something goes seriously wrong with me in the next few days, I'll be back on the track on Friday.  This time I'll be pacing two of my runners in the 5k at Eastern ( Read more... )

http://illinoisclubxc.googlepages.com/2009ILClubRelaysResults.pdf

Race day!  And that means.....

......I'm done organizing this thing!!!

Go go operation meet director.  Maybe after this weekend I'll stop getting emails from random people in Minnesota for a while.

I'm not sleeping well and my personal training is going like crap, but I think next week I'll be suiting up to pace Annie in her first track 5k.  We'll be going for 19:00.  If I can't do that, just shoot me now.