*For those of you too unhip to be in the know, "G" is the re-branding Gatorade gave itself. Twitter has take over our vocabulary. Lame. Peace out, G.
2015 Quarterly Update
9 years ago
Sunday, April 19, 2009
A New World Record
For me that is. I ran 10 miles today which is the farthest I've ever run. My last long run was 9 miles. The time was pathetic so I won't embarrass myself. I also goofed. I started at 9:30am and it was already about 78 degrees and by the time I finished it was 85 so I was sweating my arse off. I also didn't mix any electrolyte drink into my water bottle because I didn't have any so as I was leaving I poured about a teaspoon of table salt into my bottle and shook it up. I got the idea after reading a post on Kevin's 5ksandcabernets blog about eating salt packets during long runs. I don't know if it worked or not, but thanks anyway Kevin! There's a great path that runs along the San Gabriel River (it's a concrete aquaduct just like the L.A. River) along the 605 freeway all the way down to the ocean and there are several parks along the way so the scenery wasn't too bad. As you get to the end of the aquaduct it dumps into an ocean inlet. This is important because from there on and back it smells like the ass end of a dead rhinoceros or as my dad is fond of saying, the south end of a northbound horse. Along the way there's also the opportunity to chat with the local bums living under the underpasses. Colorful to be sure. The last mile was pretty rough as my stride became a shuffle, but overall a great experience. On the way home I chuged a bottle of G* and then fixed myself 3 fish tacos and a Michelob Ultra. Sweet. Hey, I work hard to take care of this girlish figure.
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'G' is retarded (sorry for the lack of PC-ness, but it has to be said). And...Michelob Ultra? Might as well fix yourself another serving of that salt water. Hehe...I keed, I keed.
ReplyDeleteGreat job on the 10-miler Mike. What are you training for?
Yeah, I know...the Ultra is basically flavored water, but I gotta have that six pack...abs that is. As far as training, really I'm just trying to get my mileage up. I don't have anything planned for the immediate future, but i really want to run some half marathons this year because Kristen and I are flirting with the idea of running the Maui Marathon in January. We just watched that docu "Spirit of the Marathon" and got all pumped up. Anyway, the only things I know for sure I want to run are the Boot Camp Challenge in SD in September, the Long Beach Grunion Run 10k which I think is also in September, the Long Beach Half in October and the Long Beach Turkey Trot 10k in November (which along with the Boot Camp Challenge and the Grunion Run have become tradition for me and Kristen). But I definitely need to find something maybe in June, but damn it's hot.
ReplyDeleteCongrats on the 10 miler. Sounds like it was very HOT.
ReplyDeleteI vote LB Half. I will most likely run that again this year. Flat and fast. Your gal should know.
ReplyDeleteJune huh? You do trails at all?
@ Rodney - It was really hot. Weird too. We had a crazy heat wave that just appeared out of nowhere, got into the high 90's, then a few days later it's back in the 70's. Strange.
ReplyDelete@ Billy - I do run trails. Well, I run down and chug and shuffle on the way up! But yeah, I've been looking to do some trail races too. I notice that you're huge into trail running.
Hope the salt works, dude. By the way, any good wines you into lately????
ReplyDelete@ Kevin - Kristen and I just got back from Rome last night so I have a whole thing about wines that I will blog about later. Look for it!
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