Young speed, old miles

When I look outside I think I can physically see the cold in the air, it's been absolutely ridiculous lately, anything under 20 degrees Celsius is far to cold for me and it seems that's all that has been happening lately, a day or two of warmth then boom a whole week of freezing your ass off and on top of that it's that time of year where the base miles  really starting to crank up, it's almost like mother nature is challenging my dedication to running, I swear if you graphed the weather you could see an almost linear declination of temperature and if it were compared to a graph of my hate of the cold you can see that they would be negative reciprocals without a doubt. Anyway, I recently came to the realization that I won't always be able to work on speed as effeciently as my youth, I mean I read a few articles here and there that explained that it was significantly harder to work on speed as you pass your prime in age. My initial thoughts were whatever, however I came to the conclusion that my prime  isn't to much longer from now and I haven't been working on my speed nearly as much as I should be. So with this in mind I came to a conclusion, young speed, old miles. I figured i'l have plenty of time to put in the miles but won't always be able to put in the speed because of old people problems such as joints, bad backs and beer guts so might as well get as much of it has I can right now, but that doesn't mean I'm going to just drop the miles but I'm not going to put as much emphasis on it as I presently do.
Anyways let us all don our tucs, mits and neck warmers and face the cold that plagues us all with miles and smiles, take that mother nature!

-Ap

Pangea

By the looks of it both DC and AP have fallen off the earth, and this would be horrible news because then I would have to do this whole blog thing all by myself, but even worse than that, I would have zero friends. Any who...

I'm taking earth science classes in school, well, actually I'm going to be an earth science major among other things. People always say that one should do what they are passionate about in school, well to come clean here, I wouldn't say that I am a die hard earth science buff, I mean I do love beards and stuff, the perks of having an earth science degree, but it's not my true passion. My true passion is running(please pause, let it soak in, feel it), running fast, running slow, running free. There is just something about it, something so peaceful about it. And of course running fast is always the game plan, but the past lil while hasn't been going as planned per say. I put in the work, run the miles, but everything just isn't clicking.

So, I was sitting in one of my earth science classes the other day, and we were discussing continental drift, how it works, why it happens, will it stop and all that jazz. The thing is we were talking about it as if in our life time we would see south america crash into china. The only problem is, it takes millions of years for such events to occur. This sort of thing doesn't happen over night. So I guess if I must take one thing away from this is, I must be patient, eventually all the work I put in will result in my own Pangea.

everything will click.

rj

Bad Company

So I am unaware about the peoples knowledge of my roommate situation, so I'll give a brief description, they are under the influence of something 60% of the time. Which isn't a bad thing, I dont mind what so ever. They cook, we all dont clean, until the mountain of garbage finally tumbles due to a misplaced empty can of cola, only after a tragedy such as that a full house clean is done. On the bright side last weekend we all returned to a shinny clean apartment and began to drink beers and become well un-sober people. When for the second time this year we stumble upon a cat outside frozen from the cold. A cute furry little creature whose tail was frozen stiff and was skinnier than me, which was saying something cause that was day 2 of my being sick not eating thing...

So without further ado, I give you our new friend Rowland the kitty. Friend of all, rekindler of all broken relations, and my best buddy.


















From the bad to good company,

rj

Back in Action.

Alright so finally rolling again, one workout into a life with food again. never actually got a measurement of how much weight was actually lost, but no food was consumed from saturday evening at 6pm till wednesday night at 6pm. Now back to full-ish health and back to full-ish running. Which gives me confidence to talk about the first workout back cause it was pretty sick. We did 5x1km which is a solid workout, and it being my first back I was thinking I'll aim for tempo pace just to be safe. First one I was 15sec behind the pack, and the old people walking are yelling at me.

"Catch up! You can do it!"

Gosh people just don't understand! Back to it though, first one was 3:10. Second 3:08, third 3:06, fourth 3:00. So I'm feeling pretty fresh right now, so I killed it, 2:50. showed them old people up!!!!! This is no proof of fitness, I'm still gunna run slow. Dang kid think positive! Imme be fast! Trust me!

Gunna throw it down...

rj

All great things come to an end

As the earth rotates around the sun and the sun around whatever the sun rotates around, time passes. Sometimes for the good, other times for the bad, like the last lap of a 3000 you really just want the time to pass as fast as possible, while during the famous Christmas holidays you kinda want the time to just stop, but like they say, all great things come to an end. The holidays were great, spent some quality time with the jets,  we played light saber pong, we went running, we played some catan, we went running, we played the extra terrestrial version of catan, twilight imperium and we went running. That basically sums up every holiday we ever have together, lots of board games, ping pong, and running, lots of running. Even if this holiday has just come to an end, I'm already looking forward to the next, I'm also looking forward to the outdoor track season, even tho school sports are canceled over here in the O prov, we still get to hit up some pretty solid club meets and I'm still going to have a chance to improve my times which means I still get to put in hundreds of miles and many more ice baths, amen to that.

This is AP ans stay classy NPS.

Bed Bound

It's a new year and for most it's a fresh start, a replenishing of the systems one would call it, and my cleansing took the form of food poisoning. Everything out! And nothing in. Yes for the last 48 hours I have not consumed any food. I have been this lifeless bag of bones unable to walk more than 15 steps without needing to lie down for about an hour. My life has revolved around falling asleep during movies, drinking little bits of water and taking drugs, and calling my mom telling her I'm dying. But she doesn't care being a nurse and all, she has seen worse. Looking on the bright side though got down to race weight really quick, easily losing at least 5-10 pounds.

This was also my first two days back at school. My life is awesome.

loving life.
rj