Describe Your Running Today, Part II

Just a word of thanks for one (the 800m Greats) of the best press conference videos i've seen in a long time. Simply historic and hilarious.

Thank-you LR. Super super video and recap.

Too bad Marcello Fiasconaro, who had it before Juantorena was not there. I suppose partly because he has a totally different life now. He was quite an athlete. And in the press conference Juantorena pays a very warm tribute to him: "Marcello, Great Man, Great Man, Great Runner!"

today

bike commute

Bushman: it looks like you got interrupted with that "I" jus' left there...

the point could be wrote:

Mopak, where are you?

100 minute run mostly along the O'Keefe Railtrail. Went into work with my wife in the morning. Took off running from work while she went to an appointment and then in a perfect bit of timing reached the Farmers Arms rendezvous point about 1 minute before she arrived.

A pretty slow trot, maybe 18 or so kms.

Yesterday was kyakking on the lake before work. Nice and choppy, did 10x30 sec sprints into a stiff headwind, only paddled for about 30 mins. but intensitywas good. Finished with a refreshing swim.

Tuesday, A good tough hour on the bike in the morning. 2 really good strong climbs, about 300m of elevation accumulation. Spent the day hanging plaster, mmm fun, not!!

Evening, 4 easy kms then a 3km track race, sluggish 11.50, then 4 easy kms.

Monday, a 75 minute session on the lake, nice and quiet in the Mt Ida inlet. Pelicans, swans, ibis, spoonbills, mallards, herons, cormorants and plenty of galahs and cockatoos.

Sunday, Mt Ida, up and then down 1/2 way,up again and down 70 minutes =13kms. Great views from the northern summit rocks across to the lake, last year the lake wasn't visible. Some feral goats around the summit. Several wallabies bounccing through the scrub.

great to see you active as usual, mopak...

woke up to a dusting of snow in milan...very xmassy...

travel day, lots of walking with heavy luggage.

tomorrow, kids athletics

AM. 1 mile warmup, then stopped to visit an old friend and bailed on the run.

1 PM; 6.5 miles on snow encrusted roads. The stodgy 10 min./ mile pace disintegrated to around 11-12 minutes/ mile on the dicey footing. But it was a fine afternoon with the country side bathed in a blanket of pristine white. Several large raptors circled above at times. ID was uncertain, as they were shorter and more compact than our usual residents of the thermals. Most notable is the small army of Blaze Orange clad hunters afield, doing their level best to reduce the population of embedded cervine terrorists.

X-C ski trails are opening 2 hours North of here. Monday would be a great day to play hooky, and head for the Gogebic Range with the skinny skiis.

Tomorrow rain is called for---grrr. Scratch the ski trip.

PM. 38 mins. on the spin trainer. Desperate House wives, and some other soap, were the brain numbing TV fare for the evening. Inserted a cycle of tabata protocol near the end of the trainer session. Quads turned to latex by the end of that.

Our crew of 5 got one White Tail today. A semblance of sanity will hopefully return to Dairyland now that the hunting season is over.

got in a nice 40 min run on Tuesday.....racing the sun to darkness....I won.....still some tightness in the right calf (outside).....fattened up on the holiday.....decided to try only 30 on Saturday.....calf still tight.....worked the Ben Gay and heating pad for the rest of the weekend.....feeling a little better, but will take an few days off....

Yesterday, 65 minute run around the McIvor Range. Lots of "creek" crossings due to heavy rain, quiet out there with just a solitary wallaby (a youg un) and a handful of roos.

Out to the 100% full lake for a 30 minute paddle, tried to go up the Mt Ida creek but the water level was too high for me to fit under the highway bridge. Plenty of ornithilogical activity on the water. Pelicans, swans and mallards. Spooked some nankeen night herons from the young submerged eucalypts they were roosting in.

Finished the day with a wet and muddy ride up to the top of the ranges and down then back up again.

Sunday was a 90 plus minute trot up and down the hills, splashing through knee deep waterways.The bottom of Dead Horse Gully had been transformed into a shallow "lake".

Planning on a 3k track race tonight. I will probably have a ride soon and will have a splash about in the kyak on the way into the race.

The promised murky day arrived. Cutting, splitting, and stacking wood for the Maple season to come, took precedence over attempting to ski over rapidly disappearing snow.

Capped the day with 40 mins. on the spin trainer. Bumped the avg.MPH to 17.8 so gains are being made.

All in all rather a gray day,especially when set along side the outings of our favorite Aussie.

mopak ,Thanks for taking the time to open such a vivid window into your world.

So, i havebeen trying to post for two days without luck. Always got error messages. Follows yesterday's post.

Bushman wrote:

... Most notable is the small army of Blaze Orange clad hunters afield, doing their level best to reduce the population of embedded cervine terrorists....

Ah, yes the Orangists...from The Netherlands to Northern Ireland...and i suppose all the way to Lhasa from a strictly chromatic point of view...and when i see those syllables,chrome, it's just as easy to picture a Harley exhaust from the ground up, as the reminder to change my tool bar eyes-down...

Bushman,

it has to be wisdom which shortens an AMer for a visit with a friend. Miles are infinite; friendships are there for as long as we are. And, as the Decker said in his romantic soliloquy ..."Rachel was special, no termination date. Don't know how much we have together. Who does?"

Today

Walk to school with kids and back,long way, 5km. The best 5km i ever do...

today posting seems ok

Intense bike commute.

A disappointing 3 k last night, tummy problems over the last 3 laps meant getting a hiding from a couple of O/50s. Finished the race and straight into the rooms, just in time...

Today I drove out to Sutton Grange, about 35k from home. Parked the car and trotted off toward the hulking mass of Mt Alexander. Followed the road all the way up to the top, pretty much uphill for 57 mins, working the steep 35 min scenic road quite hard. Trotted down the other side for a time then climbed part way back up then through the bush to pick up the Great Divide Trail. This was 6kms of wet and muddy descent. At times I was basically running in water courses (I think our drought is broken). Finished off with some good solid running back to the car. 2hr 9 min all up.

I may try to make this my regular wed. session.

I did not run today. Did a weight training session.

the point could be wrote:

recovery day with some bicycle commuting after hardish week and, yesterday, 1hr time trial on track, 14Km290meters. Could have done better. No time to warm up.

Storm Cat,

impressive that a Stallion like you, with such fine heritage, also went to find my 3-year-ago incipit.

Real running, repeat, Real Running is going to restart Jan. 1, 2011.

Today:

30 mins early AM, cold, cold

walk to work

yesterday; 1:35 on logging roads and ATV trails along the Rib River. Neil and I got turned around and began repeating a loop. Found our way out of this quandry on a gray day under featureless skies. However, not until we had made 2.5 laps, and stretched an hour run into an hour and a half. Footing was a mix of high frozen grasses, slick ruts, and crusty old snow.

Today, PM; 53 minutes on the spin trainer. 16.0 Avg.MPH. Max@33.1. Travel channel had Rick Steves in Lucerne feature playing.!

All roads lead to MOARG,.

today

40 mins early morning very easy

Family coming up for long weekend should make for a lot of walking.

A ray of sun is playing hide and seek in the clouds. Missing kids Athletics today. Gearing up for some real quality time. Until dec 18 or so, this time of year can feel a little like heartbreak hill without enough training...mentally more so than physically...then you crest it and it takes you gently home...gotta love Boston...

Boston; Ah, Wellesly girls; oooh baby, Newton Hills, full stride to the Pru. Legal Sea Foods, for too much brew.

2 tours to my credit; again,--- maybe someday. Who knows. These things come in unbidden waves.

Chrome; Harley; the spawning of Simon and Garfunkel lyrics.

"it gives us the nice bright colors, it gives us the greens of summer, so Momma don't take my Koda Chrome away"----

Yesterday; nada

Today AM; 2 miles on icey roads. Temp at 21F. The sun shone briefly, then grey claimed the remainder on the day.

Monday AM; The Sun struggles to burn through the grey shield we've dwelt under for too much of Nov. and early Dec.

Temp at 18F with moderate NW wind 8-10 MPH. 7.7 very rural miles in 70 minutes. A hand full of crows were gleaning a recently combined corn field. No other wildlife on the prowl.

With the Orange Army gone home for another year it's very quiet locally. Every body knows this is nowhere.

All around Old Man winter is casting the pall of Seasonal Affected Disorder. My response? Eat more, sleep alot, and other wise acquiesce to the urge to hibernate.

The shortest day is fast approaching, and then the uplifting reversal, and it"s urgency will begin to reassert iself.

Monday morning,17F very little wind and lite snow things were a little slick. I did my normal 6 mile run in 55:35. It's along the Mississippi river in Minneapolis. What a beautiful morning,the river is iced over and covered with snow and new snow hanging from the trees. This is what I love about running in the winter!

Bushman wrote:

Monday AM; The Sun struggles to burn through the grey shield we've dwelt under for too much of Nov. and early Dec.

Temp at 18F with moderate NW wind 8-10 MPH. 7.7 very rural miles in 70 minutes. A hand full of crows were gleaning a recently combined corn field. No other wildlife on the prowl.

With the Orange Army gone home for another year it's very quiet locally. Every body knows this is nowhere.

All around Old Man winter is casting the pall of Seasonal Affected Disorder. My response? Eat more, sleep alot, and other wise acquiesce to the urge to hibernate.

The shortest day is fast approaching, and then the uplifting reversal, and it"s urgency will begin to reassert iself.

River Rat,

Most fitting , welcome aboard.