Blogging Montage

Well Lane,

I never did see a training montage as a response to my last post, to which I'm attributing my poor training and lackluster performance at Jarred's Run last week. Regardless, in the interest of reviving this blog, please scroll slowly through the following pictures and hum Chariots of Fire. I hope it will suffice for a (rather short) montage. Enjoy!

~Alex

I'm Back!

Whoa, two things happened for the first time in a while today: 1) I'm writing a blog post! 2) I went for a run!

Holy smokes, what am I doing? As far as the blog post goes, just finally getting back to it and ruminating about my running.

On the running side though, I think I am finally going to get back into it. I've said for a while now that I would get back into running when I felt that I really wanted to. So, finally it seems that has come. For a little while I have been wishing I could run more, but was frustrated by the amount of time that work took up. I finally came to the realization that I simply need to sacrifice a bit of sleep for it (probably not more than 1/2 hour a night), and that I think it will be worth it for the sake of my sanity and my energy levels (and my waistline...).

Besides, I am planning on running a Turkey Trot on Thanksgiving day, so I want to do more than just waddle through it. How good of shape can I get in over the next three weeks just running a few miles most nights? Probably not very, but it will be better than nothing. So, here goes.

Lane, if you would be so kind: Cue the training montage

~Alex

Training, Week of 8/28

This week was another “dumpster” week, with a total of only 26.2 miles in 3:12:44 (7:23/mile average).  I started the week off really well with a couple longer runs (one of which was a trip to the Reservoirs in West Hartford).  I then headed back to Vermont on Thursday night with my fiancé (skipping my regularly scheduled track workout).  I wasn’t feeling motivated to run on Friday, so I just ran 4.5 miles and then I was super busy on Saturday and it was raining on Sunday and the excuses just kept building and I ended up running far less than I should have.  I am a bit disappointed in myself but I’m primed to start a fresh week and put in some good miles.  I think I am going to focus more on running farther in the afternoon (rather than trying to add morning runs which has been a huge failure so far).

On the racing front, I have signed up for another corporate 5k and I have been put on a “stacked” team so that hopefully the company that I work for can compete against the local running shoe store.  It’s a little funny that it’s such a heated competition based on the sizes; my company has (literally) thousands of employees in the area and the shoe store’s employees number in the tens.  I suppose that they tend to hire people from two very different demographics!  Once again, I’m looking forward to helping my team and you never know, now that the college kids have gone back to school, I might even get a prize!


-Lane

All Righty Now...

Yesterday's post was a possibly on the side of over-reaction.  I still meant what I said and I'm going to be writing a ton of letters to the senate, the house, and there will likely be a note sent to President Obama in the near future.  But it's late and I have to get up early and run tomorrow because right after work I'm leaving to go back to my parents' house for the long weekend!  I'll probably be a bit like this tomorrow morning around 5:

I also want to leave a question that I wonder a lot about: why aren't there more vigilantes?  Whenever I think about it, I am surprised that we don't hear of more vigilantes attempting to take the law into their own hands.  I legitimately wonder about this, but I am also being a little lazy and I'm in the .gif mood so I'll stop writing and get right to the real point of this paragraph:

Justice-Tuna Cassarole

-Lane

Not Much To Say

I really wanted to write a blog post today, but I don't really have that much to say.  Today was a long day so I'm feeling very uninspired.  The good thing is that tomorrow is another day and I think I'll be busy so I'll definitely have a bit more to talk about.

I feel like I'm being a little lazy with this post, but that's the way it goes.

-Lane

Vacation...

Having finished moving out of Worcester on Tuesday I am now really on vacation until I start work in July. Thus, I really don't have anything that I have to do. I was going to write a real post, but I'm on vacation and will just leave this picture to sum up my day:

~Alex