I couldn’t sleep last night. Finally I got to sleep and I dreamed that Don Draper mugged me at the new Yankee Stadium Metro North train station. He only took my wallet because he didn’t know what my phone or iPod was. When my alarm went off this morning I hit snooze 3 times. At 5:45 I was about to cave, but I forced myself out of bed. A quick run around to get ready and I was at the gym at 6:00.
It wasn’t the best run, but it wasn’t the worst either. I put the incline on 1 and ran the last half mile at 5.5mph. In the past I had been running the last quarter mile at 5.5mph. I’d consider that a win except that I ran the first mile at 4.5mph instead of my normal 4.8 – 5mph so the end results were exactly the same.
Day -152
Woke up at 5:45am
Gym at 6:00am
Ran 2 miles in 25.15 min for a average mile of 12.37.
Time to go: [fergcorp_cdt_single date=”March 20, 2011, 6:35 am est”]
So… after 2 days of running, I lost 4 days. Not a great way to start my training. The first day I was out the night before with some friends. It wouldn’t have been so bad, but Jack was up twice that night. The second time was at 3am and he was up for over an hour. I had 2 options at point: Watch an hour of TV until 5:15 when I would have normally gotten up, or bag the gym. I decided to bag the gym. Of course, the next day was Friday and we were leaving for VT. So, I missed Friday because we were packing and loading the car all morning to get on the road as early as possible and then Saturday and Sunday we were in VT. I suppose I could have run outside in VT, but it was 30 degrees and rainy. With 4 days gone I woke up this morning to hit the gym.
I sat outside the gym until the guy decided to show up at 5:59 (the gym opens at 6). That should have been an omen. I got on the treadmill and started to go. I felt great at first, but then things fell apart. I got a headache; I was nauseas; my knee started to hurt after the first mile. It was not a good day. Through it all I finished the 2 miles… but it was not pretty. I will need to not take 4 days off again. At least until I’m back in a little bit of shape.
Day -153
Woke up at 5:20am
Gym at 5:50am (sat outside until 5:59am when the guy showed up)
Ran 2 miles in 25.20 min for a average mile of 12.40.
Time to go: [fergcorp_cdt_single date=”March 20, 2011, 6:35 am est”]
We headed up to VT this October with Mike and Nicole again. This year we were joined by Jonah (Mike and Nicole’s son) and Ed and Katie. This little Fall tradition of ours is growing. With a near cancellation by the Needleman’s (more on that later) we all had a great time.
Spend Friday just bumming around the house and getting everything set up. Jonah had a fluctuating fever, so the Needleman’s didn’t make it up Friday as they had planned. We discovered a new pizza place that had extremely passable pizza for VT. Jack had a successful night’s sleep. All in all, it was great.
Saturday we spent a lazy morning just hanging out until Mike, Nicole and Jonah got there. Then it was shopping and laying around watching college football. I will let you figure out who went where. Jack was running around like a mad man. I think he just likes having more space than a 2 bedroom apartment to run around in.
Saturday night we had a giant Mexican feast. Gotta love make your own taco night. Ed and Katie put together a great dinner while the rest of us tended to our kids. Dinner was really good. They will definitely be invited back next year. Then we watched Hot Tub Time Machine, which everyone else but me and Jen had seen. It was hysterical.
Sunday was a bit of a whirlwind. We had to clean up the whole house and do all the laundry. Mike and Nicole decided to head out early to take Jonah to the doctor since he still wasn’t feeling well. The rest of us went out for breakfast. Then Ed and Katie went for some follow up shopping and the Shaw’s hit up the Pumpkin Patch.
The Pumpkin Patch was very cold and much more crowded that last year. They had a Bouncy House, which Jack had a good time in. Then we walked around and picked up some pumpkins. We were all very full from breakfast, so no cider doughnuts were had… but it was still a lot of fun.
Woke up this morning and was a little sore. For a brief period thought about bagging the run, but it is only the second day, so that would not have been good. Figured I would just walk or something just to keep the legs moving. Turns out I was able to run. I’m sore as Hell now… but I did get a run in this morning.
Day -158
Woke up at 5:35am
Gym at 6:05am
Ran 2 miles in 24.30 min for a average mile of 12.15.
Time to go: [fergcorp_cdt_single date=”March 20, 2011, 6:35 am est”]
I think I have decided to run the NYC Half Marathon on March 20, 2011. I have 159 days to whip myself into shape. I have not yet “officially” entered my name into the lottery, but I have begun my training. It looked a little like this:
Okay… not really… but it was a TRAINING MONTAGE!
Day -159
Woke up at 5:45am
Gym at 6:00am
Ran 2 miles in 25.20 min for a average mile of 12.40.
Time to go: [fergcorp_cdt_single date=”March 20, 2011, 6:35 am est”]
Having gone to Sesame Place over the summer, we had a free ticket to go any other time this year. We decided we were going to wait for the fall to go near Halloween for The Count’s Halloween Spook-tacular. Basically they decorate Sesame Place for Halloween and have all the characters in costume. The kids can wear their costumes and go trick or treating at some of the rides. We brought Jack’s costume, but it ended up being a very hot day and we figured he would be too hot in his Buzz Lightyear jump suit.
The first ride we went on was the Grover roller coaster. It was MUCH faster than it looked. Jack was so excited. He was laughing and having a great time on the way to the top… but once we headed down, he was scared. Not too scared that he was crying or asking to get off, but he couldn’t decide if he wanted to smile and laugh or be scared. He didn’t want to go on again… but he said he had fun.
Other than that we just had a great time walking around. Saw some of the characters. Ate lunch. Went on some rides. He made me go on the cargo nets again. This time I only had to go up since he wanted to take the stairs down. Of course, the section he wanted to go on had a 5 foot vertical climb. I had to push him up and then scramble to climb up before he ran down the stairs. I’m not exactly built for vertical climbing… but I made it.
@dogfishbeer went to Eataly in NYC last night and grabbed some of your beers. All were great. Looking forward to the rooftop bar! in reply to dogfishbeer#
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