Alright well, yesterday was the unofficial birthday of NPS, and just as it started last year, a season is over, and it's time for some needed rest. Not that I did anything crazy this indoors, just wanna let the legs rebuild some bounce. Then I'll try something really new and hop right back into workouts and build up for a strong outdoor season. I figure, I already have my base miles from december, and I just built up all of Jan and Feb, so getting right back into her might not be such a bad idear. Still gotta run the idea past a couple coaches as I am not yet my own full time coach. On that topic thou, We (RJ and DC) do create a bunch of workouts that we do in summer training. It's very strange cause its like we are our own guinea pigs. Enough with this jogging stuff.
The real reason I brought you here today is to talk about some traditions that the XC team has at X. Now of course most of these traditions envole drinking so are not done in season.
The first one is extremely humorous because its similar to the marathon, and as most of our guys have never run a full marathon, most of our guys cannot finish... you know what, I believe I cannot say these things as if someone of importance found out, I could get in trouble. So our team only drinks on CIS night and the athletic banquet for all those important people reading this.
And to those of you who aren't the important people who could get us in trouble, the beer mile (not the best video) is just around the corner. Giddy Up.
Wow, I've been wanting to talk about music for sometime now but keep getting distracted with other things. Shoot. Next time.
Tear it down.
Just to build it back up.
rj
Thursday, February 28, 2013
Friday, February 22, 2013
Just Have Fun
The day before a big race. People say always do the same thing to get ready, I'm not sure that this can actually happen. Many different things affect the preparation, as in the bus ride, hotel, sleep, whats on tv and what not. I am beginning to believe this is a little bit of bulls***. Although having some superstitions is completely fine, going over the top is a tad crazy. I know a guy who does shave on race day nor does he even drive! Craziness! Anyways what I'm trying to say is I do not do the same thing before every race, it changes from race to race. What I am getting at I guess is I would like to talk about my pre race prep tonight.
On the bus sat with SD who I often sit with and we watched a movie called Beasts of the Southern Wild , it turned out to be a pretty sweet flick. I recommend it to all who enjoy movies and even to those who don't. As the night went on, I find myself and the young guns (rooks) watching some of the scotties tourny of hearts. And I can't decide what we were more interested in, the attractiveness of Ontarios skip and 2nd or the game itself. Many sexual comments were made about the "yeaaaaahs" and "haaaarrrdds" that were yelled but I'll keep them to myself as I know a couple younger people who read this blog. Now with the night coming to an end (11pm) I will try to pull a George Costanza and leave on top with a funny of some sorts. So we begin to discuss how much money it would take for one of our party to streak down the hall. One of us said 100$, then I was asked. I responded with 15. Ten seconds later I was down the hall and back and I gladly accepted my reward.
I'll get naked for money.
pay up and enjoy.
rj
On the bus sat with SD who I often sit with and we watched a movie called Beasts of the Southern Wild , it turned out to be a pretty sweet flick. I recommend it to all who enjoy movies and even to those who don't. As the night went on, I find myself and the young guns (rooks) watching some of the scotties tourny of hearts. And I can't decide what we were more interested in, the attractiveness of Ontarios skip and 2nd or the game itself. Many sexual comments were made about the "yeaaaaahs" and "haaaarrrdds" that were yelled but I'll keep them to myself as I know a couple younger people who read this blog. Now with the night coming to an end (11pm) I will try to pull a George Costanza and leave on top with a funny of some sorts. So we begin to discuss how much money it would take for one of our party to streak down the hall. One of us said 100$, then I was asked. I responded with 15. Ten seconds later I was down the hall and back and I gladly accepted my reward.
I'll get naked for money.
pay up and enjoy.
rj
Wednesday, February 20, 2013
Man's best friend to runner's best friend
Over the past few weeks I've been hitting some pretty high mileage, highest of my life, except for this time I'm holding this mileage for like the whole season so it's getting pretty long, boring and tiring, and with the lack of running buddies the last few weeks (except SM a few times) I've been getting pretty lonely as well. Anyway last week my dog, Lacy, was acting up from being cooped up in the house because nobody really wanted to take her outside in the cold, so one day while I was gearing up for a run and Lacey single handedly spilt my water bottle stole my running shoe and gave me a bloody lip, so I decided as punishment I'd take that fiend with me for my run , now some may say well Adam that must be a treat for that little critter, but no, with all this pent up rage on my dog I didn't take it easy on her. She started out running at a solid 4 flat pace and i kept up, didn't warn her of things to come, I don't think she realized we were going for a solid 40 minutes because by 10 minutes she was no longer front running, ohh noo, she was right at my side struggling to keep up because I didn't slow down I kept a heavy pace for the next 20 minutes while she slowly faded behind me. Despite her exaughstion she kept up the whole run thoe! Over that 40 minutes I think I bonded with my dog more then I've bonded with her since I've owned her and along with that realization i realized how much I value running when I judge someone! I have speed goggles but for personality as well so the fact that Lacy kept up boosted her in my mind 10 fold! I think I have a new life dream, to do like a marathon or something of the sorts with my dog because that would be sick, so from now on in I'm doing every run i possibly can with her she has officially went from man's best friend to runner's best friend
Sorry about the rant on my dog, t'il next time
-AP
Tuesday, February 05, 2013
My Cotton T-Shirt
So, due to the horrid weather in Antigonish Nova Scotia I have been forced inside for a couple days of running. The DREADMILL, the GERBAL MACHINE, the treadmill... has been what I have been making love too rather than the beautiful open roads and endless trails. So In classic NPS spirit, we learn from each other I and took advice from my favorite Mid/Long Distance Elliptical-er and didnt leave the gym till my shirt was very soaked. But while going hard on this death machine, I truly took noticed to what I was wearing, due to the 1000 mirrors we have in our gym. I was wearing my favorite cotton t-shirt, and germany short shots. The next big thing, is why cotton, old people wear cotton... And all that stuff about how cotton is bad fer you, and you should wear athletic fibres and what not. F*** them, I love working out in cotton. It feels amazing, it breaths! I feel like I'm going a tad over board with my love of cotton, and I'm okay with that. So much so, that I wrote a poem about my favorite cotton t-shirt.
THE COTTON T-SHIRT
THE COTTON T-SHIRT
The cotton t-shirt that hangs over my chair.
it’s seen enough, it would only be fair,
to hang it up for good, its seen it’s fair share.
This cotton t-shirt you don’t understand.
it’s seen enough, for its had a hand,
in making me who I am.
My sweat has seen every part of the shirt.
This one shirt has seen a lot of hurt.
My hurt is different though…
I am a runner and my favorite t-shirt has seen many miles.
And all the miles have brought many smiles.
This cotton t-shirt is yellow and very faded,
its one those things when wearing I feel naked.
I love it.
My cotton t-shirt is a tad to small.
I got it when I was short, now I am tall.
I’ve worn this shirt many days in a row.
I’ve worn this shirt so much its almost done.
I’ve had too much fun, on the run.
I'm no Shakespeare
And me and my t-shirt aren't going out like Romeo and Juliet.
rj
it’s seen enough, it would only be fair,
to hang it up for good, its seen it’s fair share.
This cotton t-shirt you don’t understand.
it’s seen enough, for its had a hand,
in making me who I am.
My sweat has seen every part of the shirt.
This one shirt has seen a lot of hurt.
My hurt is different though…
I am a runner and my favorite t-shirt has seen many miles.
And all the miles have brought many smiles.
This cotton t-shirt is yellow and very faded,
its one those things when wearing I feel naked.
I love it.
My cotton t-shirt is a tad to small.
I got it when I was short, now I am tall.
I’ve worn this shirt many days in a row.
I’ve worn this shirt so much its almost done.
I’ve had too much fun, on the run.
I'm no Shakespeare
And me and my t-shirt aren't going out like Romeo and Juliet.
rj
Saturday, February 02, 2013
The Big Picture
As I sit here eating subway I think back to an idea I had just before going to sleep one night earlier this week, and with the advice of DC I wrote it down, I'd like to title this idea "The Big Picture" and not this kind of big picture but an even bigger picture then that, one not measurable in the third dimension or any dimension for that matter, for the picture is life.
So as I was laying there in a half conscious state pondering the whys of my existence (The more things I figure out why I do the better I feel) I had a sudden epiphany, I realized just then there that I was only focused on now, this day, this week, this phase, this season I was focused on the now. You may be saying so what, but I say that the now should be secondary to the big picture. Everyday I see people making sacrifices from the big picture to improve the now, sacrifices such as not enough mileage for their speed, not doing the little things to keep away from injury, slacking off in school and such and sometimes not even doing a cool down! But I ask, what's the point? Life is like a painting and you're the artist, making sacrifices for the now is using all the best quality paint for painting in the sky on a painting where the sky isn't the main focus , the part of the painting that isn't supposed to draw focus but is just there to fill up the big picture, to compliment the main aspect of the painting. As you paint your painting, the more good quality paint you waste on the sky or the grass or everything else that matters less then the focal point of the painting the less you will have for the main aspect of it and the weaker the main aspect will be. Now I realize that every moment of your life, every stroke of your brush leading up to the main part of your big picture is more important then the last and without it the big picture or focal point wouldn't be possible, sometimes even making a mistake in one stroke of your brush can create better strokes later on, however making sacrifices from your focal point to make that part of the sky look better without learning from the mistakes you made isn't worth it in the big picture.
Anyway I guess what I'm trying to get at is that there is so much more to life then what is just happening right now and I figure that people need to start making decisions for the future, could be their future or the future of others, instead of making decisions to improve the now. I guess this applies to a lot more then just running but we need to realize that one day when we're older then we are now, we're going to step back and take a look at the big picture and hope that you can say that each stroke you made of your brush was something you won't regret and didn't take away from the focal point of your big picture
Well until next time
-A.P
So as I was laying there in a half conscious state pondering the whys of my existence (The more things I figure out why I do the better I feel) I had a sudden epiphany, I realized just then there that I was only focused on now, this day, this week, this phase, this season I was focused on the now. You may be saying so what, but I say that the now should be secondary to the big picture. Everyday I see people making sacrifices from the big picture to improve the now, sacrifices such as not enough mileage for their speed, not doing the little things to keep away from injury, slacking off in school and such and sometimes not even doing a cool down! But I ask, what's the point? Life is like a painting and you're the artist, making sacrifices for the now is using all the best quality paint for painting in the sky on a painting where the sky isn't the main focus , the part of the painting that isn't supposed to draw focus but is just there to fill up the big picture, to compliment the main aspect of the painting. As you paint your painting, the more good quality paint you waste on the sky or the grass or everything else that matters less then the focal point of the painting the less you will have for the main aspect of it and the weaker the main aspect will be. Now I realize that every moment of your life, every stroke of your brush leading up to the main part of your big picture is more important then the last and without it the big picture or focal point wouldn't be possible, sometimes even making a mistake in one stroke of your brush can create better strokes later on, however making sacrifices from your focal point to make that part of the sky look better without learning from the mistakes you made isn't worth it in the big picture.
Anyway I guess what I'm trying to get at is that there is so much more to life then what is just happening right now and I figure that people need to start making decisions for the future, could be their future or the future of others, instead of making decisions to improve the now. I guess this applies to a lot more then just running but we need to realize that one day when we're older then we are now, we're going to step back and take a look at the big picture and hope that you can say that each stroke you made of your brush was something you won't regret and didn't take away from the focal point of your big picture
Well until next time
-A.P
Friday, February 01, 2013
Back To School.
Some news on the home front, I cannot decide if this news is bad or good news, so as stated before, there is news. This news deals with my current education in the field of Aquatic Resources, well it deals with everyones education at StFX. The profs decided it was a good idear to go on strike to try to get some more cash from "the man" so there are no classes being taught. So I thought I would try to do some of my own teaching, So today you will find a list of definitions that runners use to describe runs, runners, and things that occur while running/racing below.
Speedgoogles: So basically the faster you are the more attractive you look to other runners. One has speedgoogles when they are attracted to fast runners.
Gamer: One who is a really good racer.
dropping hammers: Every workout you pick up "hammers" and they can be saved for a time when you need to drop them, kinda like dropping weight, it allows for super speed.
speed racer: A guy who does not let anyone beat him in workouts/ easy runs.
workout hero: Someone who is really good at workouts but just can't put it together for a race.
easy workout star: Easy 20 minute tempo today. Guy takes it out in 3:10's when everyone else takes it out in 3:25s
pretty: A runner who runs like Hicham el Guerrouj not like Kim Smith.
Study up!
rj
Speedgoogles: So basically the faster you are the more attractive you look to other runners. One has speedgoogles when they are attracted to fast runners.
Gamer: One who is a really good racer.
dropping hammers: Every workout you pick up "hammers" and they can be saved for a time when you need to drop them, kinda like dropping weight, it allows for super speed.
speed racer: A guy who does not let anyone beat him in workouts/ easy runs.
workout hero: Someone who is really good at workouts but just can't put it together for a race.
easy workout star: Easy 20 minute tempo today. Guy takes it out in 3:10's when everyone else takes it out in 3:25s
pretty: A runner who runs like Hicham el Guerrouj not like Kim Smith.
Study up!
rj
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