Don't Forget Folks, That's What You Get Folks....

     I usually am not one who cannot make up his mind, but for the last couple months, I have been quite torn. I signed up for the Ottawa Race Weekend 10km this year, moving up from the 5km which I ran last two years. Both times just ran for fun, nothing serious. This year some of the guys decided to buck up and sign up too. So I have been sitting in my room staring at my wall trying to decided whether or not to go after it or slowly build through the summer. After careful consideration, I have decided to have a crack at it. Training will be pretty simple, but hopefully it will go well. It should be a fast race and hopefully I can get a PB out of it. Now just have to decide what singlet to wear... Decisions, decisions...

     In other news, the little town I currently reside in is a big fan of winter, it seems each day we get another foot of the fluffy white stuff. The snow doesn't usually angry me to much, but running on the same 4 roads every day has taken a toll on me mentally, and the worst part is, last week we got a glimmer of hope as it was warm enough to strip down to shorts. What makes this even worse is the fact that I care enough about the damn weather to rant about it on the internet! Absolutely pathetic.

     Thanks for listening, now if you let me finish, 

... For Playing Whoopee. 

rj

Season Ender, Season Opener

Wrapped up early after a few races because indoors. Why prolong the torture. Raced a couple of times, in a couple of cool places, faded hard from the front at least once. The season was a get-in-pb-get-out-with-the-fewest-injuries-possible situation. As soon as things began getting sore, it's time to call it.

In four short weeks I will be travelling approximately 1 hour south to an undisclosed location for a beermile classic. Given the field assembled, my goal is to place top 5 and/or sub 5:40. These are very aggressive goals I realize, but this is not an average casual beermile. With multiple worlds competitors, and numerous up and comers, it is arguably one of the deepest group of beermilers to race in Ontario within recent years. Actually kind of hoping they make heats, as the participation is looking to top out at around 50+ competitors. That's a lot of people to get around on the track, not to mention the associated difficulty of locating your brew within 200 other beers.

Following in the path of consumption athletics, the annual H2MC will precede the beermile by one week and hopefully prove to be a good prep race. The goal here is to take back my title and course record. Last year consisted of gross over training in the eating/route planning category and undertraining in the running position (read: 3 days off before the event). Things will be different this time.

As the worst of winter comes to a close, it's time to prepare for a higher mileage phase and run some road races, maybe some long track racing too.

Get sum in all things college,

D.C.