I guess I have a blogging backlog

As far as yesterday went...

It was a recovery run. I felt good and had to constantly put on the brakes as I noticed I was going too fast. That is one thing that I always find hard to do, is not go out and give 100% every time. In every sport I played as a kid my coaches would always be talking about giving maximum effort. One quote that really stuck with me was

"You will play the way you practice, so practice the way you want to play"

I want to run fast, so how do I run fast? I run slow during practice. Such a strange philosophy in running. But it works.

Also yesterday at my university, the health and human performance department had their annual health fair, and a friend of mine have a yearly competition to see who has the lowest body fat %. The first year we did it, I came in at about 6% and he was about 7%. Then last year I blew his 8% out of the water with my 4%. This year he came in at 10% keeping his trend going, and I keeping mine got 2.9% body fat.

Now this is not a good thing. The minimum amount of body fat to be considered healthy is about 8%. I guess last year my switching from skim milk to 2% and margarine to butter did not quite work. I eat about 4000 calories a day and plenty of fatty foods, I just burn it all up. Perhaps I need to start eating 5000 calories a day, but that would make me sick. Hell last week I got a gallon of chocolate ice cream and ate that in 3 days! How do I gain some fat? I wish I could just have people sell me their fat and I then burn it off for them. That way I would make money by selling burn calories, and I would also save on my grocery bill! Now to find a way to sell burnt calories....

Slow Recovery Day

I'm taking a break from writing the final draft of my senior semiar paper entitled:

"Quantitative Verification of the Which-Way Experiment Using Single Photons"

Phew.

anyways once I am done I just might post a link incase any of you physics geeks feels like reading up on my pittiful undergraduate research that just re-does what people with higher degrees than me have already done to more accuracy than me 10 years ago.

But back to running. Today was a slow run, a recovery run and I milked it for all it was worth. I was running close to 10:00 min miles as my body was a bit fatiqued from my weekend's runs. But I did not mind as who cares about times during a recovery run. Plus I need to keep those nagging injuries from coming back.

I guess the one thing about recovery runs that really suck is that most of my friends know I am a serious hard core fast runner, and while I am out plodding along at a very un-me like pace, I happen to see one of my good friends. Now the question I must ask is why can't they ever drive/walk by when I am doing speed work?!?! They are probably thinking to themselves "pfft, I bet he can't even run a 8:00 min mile, he's just full of hot air"

I guess perhaps that is extra motivation to do well at this weekends 5k. So when I see that person next, they will invariably say "I saw you running." and I can say, "Oh yea, that was pretty slow for me, this weekend I ran a X:XX 5k" and then they go Ok and don't think of me as some big liar, and instead just some arrogant prick who has to tell them their 5k times. I'm screwed either way.

Tommorow is a 9x Hill run. I'm excited to get back into that! And please somebody drive by! :P