My blog is like: a)     cold fried chicken right out of the 'fridge and eaten over the kitchen sinkb)     an old dilapitated house in the low rent part of town c)      a drunken two in the ay-em missionary boink that just won’t ever endd)     all of the above My standing in the blogging community is: a)     like comparing a crack whore to Mother Teresab)&n...

The clock is ticking down.  Less than one week to go now. This morning I ran the last Long Slow Distance I plan to run until the big day next Saturday when I run my first 10k. They call it “tapering” were, although you do not decrease the intensity, you do decrease the miles you put in leading up to the event in order to rest your muscles and prepare for the final push.  So tomorrow I’ll do a few fast uphill sprints and a slooow and easy two miles around the high scho...

Posted May 5, 2008  Currently I am up to 8 mile "Long Slow Distance" runs interspersed with weekly speedwork at the local high school track. So I’m wondering if it is a realistic expectation that I could finish, barring any injuries, a half-marathon by maybe say...October? Definitely do-able Joe! I think so if you follow a training plan. The longest run I had done was 7 miles before I started training for my half. I gave myself 4 months to train, which turned out to be enough for...

 Take this soul, stranded in some skin and bones. Take this soul, and make it sing… -U2, Yahweh ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ HE: Ha! So you went skydiving? All I have to say about that is you must not love your life very much. ME: that’s where you’re wrong. I went skydiving because I DO love my life very much.********* Richard Dawkins once made the obvious statement that we are all going to die. But the thing is, he went on to say, is ...

If your friends that are broke aren’t making fun of you, then you are not on track. I read where some financial guru named Dave Ramsey said that and I thought, hmmm… you could take that quote right there and cross that over to a lot of shit other than just money management. Like… If your friends that are still going to titty bars and driving home shit faced in the early ay-em aren’t making fun of you, then you are not on track. Or… I...

 Mondays. God love ‘em, they’re really just another day but they get such a bad rap for their name.Monday.It means the first day of the week, when you up-and-at-‘em gotta go back to the proverbial salt mines after two days of real living.But then, for me, this is a day off –the LAST day off of six days in a row I had to burn or I would lose ‘em back to The Job. Heh, and ain’t NO WAY I was gonna give up my time of real living back to The Job. No way i...

I would rather take my chances out there on the ocean than stay here and die. -Tom Hanks as Chuck Nolan in Castaway~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I wasn’t really designed for this New Life I’ve been trying to live. I mean, I was actually created for the purpose of living in lazy excess, ya dig? Like smoking and drinking and eating too much and partying and sleeping in.  …And so far I’ve done a fairly good job at it too. But… this?...

 Wowza. So today is the yin of yesterday’s yang outside (and in more ways than one). Sunny and warm. Instead of hearing rumbling thunder and rain, it’s all about birds chirping and the back-and-forth drone of some not-so-distant neighbor’s lawn mower. Looking out the window I see that everything has been washed clean and I begin to get a true feeling that spring has finally sprung in Texas.********* “Rollercoasters are intentionally designed to be uncomfort...