10.1 miles in 1:08:30 (6:46 pace). I forgot my running shorts and so I was forced to run in sweats which made the miles pass like kidney stones. I tried doing these miles "off the run"(Trademark Pending*)...meaning that I fasted by only partaking in one piece of toast with cinnamon sugar on it for breakfast. Maybe honey would be better next time? ---------------------------- This is the HAZMAT suit. It's got special Team America powers too. -------------------------------- I fully realize that the overall tone on this blog has sunk to new levels of cynicism and jadedness. I guess the average reader is calloused from this and so the continuing volley of arrows loosened by my countercultural, buck-the-running-system longbow don't strike too close to the heart. They really shouldn't. By now the regular reader should be saying to herself/himself that perhaps this guy really has lost it and that maybe its time to unsubscribe from this shit vein. Because its demise is inevitable, I've finally selected a cemetery plot for the blog: it's a small-size plot and has got a view of the newly constructed superterrifichappyfunmall. Let me try a different tone..... Today was a tough day. I ran really hard. It was a killer workout. The miles flew by. I need to work on my form more. I wish I didn't have to work in a cubicle, but it pays the bills! LOL! I feel that I have trained really hard for this marathon. This will be the ultimate test of strength, mind, and will. As Aristotle once wrote back during the Middle Ages: "To be or not to be, that is the question." His quote will be with me when times get rough. I will repeat these words over and over again. Aristotle's my hero. When they tried to burn him at the steak, he stood up corageously and said something like, "Our is not to reason why, ours is but to do or die!" I like that quote too. It rocks! I'm still a bit sore from the 2nd Annual "Fly Like an Eagle into the Future" 5k. The trophy I got for it sucks though. They need to spend more money on trophies because success breeds success and no one likes to be a loser. 2nd place is first loser in my book. I have always carried that quote with me too. Because, as Mr. Anderson, my high school wrestling coach told us, "win, pin, or die!" Tonight is trash night, so I need to put out all my wine bottles when it gets dark. I'll be like a spy-vs-spy guy, you know, the dark spy, and put them out when everyone has gone to bed. People go to bed early in my neighborhood. The seniors usually go to bed first, but sometimes the noise from the kids crying in the windows of the adjacent houses keep them up until around 8pm. They will then write laws or something that prevents kids from being near open windows. That's my silly neighborhood! Now that I am tapering, it will be even harder to focus my efforts and strengths on my goals. God I hate the taper! Tapers suck. Who invented tapers anyway? Geez. Well, I guess I have to get going now. I'm going to get something to eat and then get back to work. I'm listening to Lez Miserabels that is being played in the office right now. Thenardier's singing "Master of the House" and it's making me laugh! Since Lez Miserabels is playing, I'll leave you with a quote from it. Can't you tell I like quotes? ;-) "Master of the house Doling out the charm Ready with a handshake And an open palm Tells a saucy tale Makes a little stir Customers appreciate a bon-viveur." ~Thenardier in Lez Miserbels. ----------------------------------- *"Off the run" is a concept that I am working on. Basically, you don't walk or run anywhere and you try to sit in your chair, in a cubicle, as long as possible during the day (no windows, just gray 'pre-midlife crisis' walls). You don't want your legs to move at all. However, you have permission to not listen to Les Miserables or Gary Gygax's farts, but those are the only two exceptions. "Off the run" basically means sitting and stewing. Got it? "Off the Run"(TM pending) has a secondary purpose: fasting. When you are "Off the Run"(TM pending) you are to fast with occasional lighter meals like cinnamon toast or something with honey in it--maybe Kellogg's Honey Smacks(TM)--MAYBE. I'm for sure thinking honey is the way to go. Honey kicks major running ass. Honey's dietary benefits as it pertains to runners far outweigh those of ground cinnamon's mixed with nasty refined sugars--FOR SURE. My next thing will be "Between the Run" (TM not yet pending but soon--SOON) which will entail drinking red wine between doubles (Falernian preferred, maybe Sangiovese--MAYBE). Then, I'm working on "After the Run"(TM after "Between the Run" gets its trademark) which is, of course, more wine, chased by frozen eggrolls and General Tso's chicken. General Tso's may eventually be substituted for organic Andean quinoa** and wild Pacific salmon. I need to do a bit more consulting with Evel Karnievel first; he's into "Indie Rock" and Pacific Salmon and he runs really hard (350 miles nonstop babee!) so he may be onto something. But I'll wait until he's done saving Baby Katalina. I don't want to cut in line and bother him in the middle of his rescue. **All quinoa needs to come from fairly traded indigenous peoples of South America--none of this corporate Frankenfood shit ok?