Tuesday, February 27, 2007
A long, long descent, then flat until the 22nd and 23rd mile-- and even there it's kinda up and down. It is sort of the reverse of the Boilermaker profile:
I can do this.
Sunday, February 25, 2007
Ways I Am Prepared For The Los Angeles Marathon:
--Gu-- 4 packs, 2 Chocolate Outrage, 2 Vanilla Bean
--Cliff Bloks
--Extra Strength Tylenol-- fast acting gel tabs
--Body Glide
--Vaseline
--KRAC singlet
--RaceReady shorts
--Nike Maxisight contacts
--Host gift(Highland Park 12 year old-- the Official Whisky of the Keith Richards Athletic Club)
Ways I Am Not Prepared:
--Adequate training miles
-- I should get a haircut. (At least there is still time for that.)
Other Concerns:
The miles I have put in have been over snow and ice. This has had an effect on my gait-- I have been obliged to take smaller steps, and have seldom been able to open my stride. Who knows how this will affect me over 26.2?
Weather, specifically heat. I'd say the average temperature for my long runs has been around 20°. It is 56° in the City of Angels as I write this-- not roasting, but a significant difference nevertheless. I did two hours at Alumni Arena last week (the tedium is somewhat mitigated by the co-eds) and found the heat to be a complicating factor.
Don't get me wrong-- I figure I'm in for up to three hours of fun. Too bad about the other hour and a half or so.
--Gu-- 4 packs, 2 Chocolate Outrage, 2 Vanilla Bean
--Cliff Bloks
--Extra Strength Tylenol-- fast acting gel tabs
--Body Glide
--Vaseline
--KRAC singlet
--RaceReady shorts
--Nike Maxisight contacts
--Host gift(Highland Park 12 year old-- the Official Whisky of the Keith Richards Athletic Club)
Ways I Am Not Prepared:
--Adequate training miles
-- I should get a haircut. (At least there is still time for that.)
Other Concerns:
The miles I have put in have been over snow and ice. This has had an effect on my gait-- I have been obliged to take smaller steps, and have seldom been able to open my stride. Who knows how this will affect me over 26.2?
Weather, specifically heat. I'd say the average temperature for my long runs has been around 20°. It is 56° in the City of Angels as I write this-- not roasting, but a significant difference nevertheless. I did two hours at Alumni Arena last week (the tedium is somewhat mitigated by the co-eds) and found the heat to be a complicating factor.
Don't get me wrong-- I figure I'm in for up to three hours of fun. Too bad about the other hour and a half or so.
Monday, February 05, 2007
I can't think of a Super Bowl where the weather was a factor, although I'm sure there must have been one. Actually, the weather was only a factor in this one to the extent that the Colts were prevented from running up the score. We were in the car for the first half, desperately speeding to make it home in time to see Prince. With the score 14 to 6 I said that the Bears had scored all they were likely to, and I wasn't far from wrong.
Every now and then it seems like an NFL player comes along who provides the margin of difference. For a while in the 90's it was Deion Sanders. Right now it seems to me that it might be Adam Vinatieri. He's more than a good luck charm, that's for sure, and the fact that he missed a couple last night doesn't persuade me otherwise.
Every now and then it seems like an NFL player comes along who provides the margin of difference. For a while in the 90's it was Deion Sanders. Right now it seems to me that it might be Adam Vinatieri. He's more than a good luck charm, that's for sure, and the fact that he missed a couple last night doesn't persuade me otherwise.
