A Present from the Postman

Got some cool stuff in the mail today. (Finally) After spending Friday afternoon desperately trying to track down my shipment of shoes in hopes that I would be able to use the spike's I had ordered for Saturday's race I had to resign myself to one more race in shoes that were a full size too small. It went alright though. I ran 28:35 for the 8k course which was a big improvement and shoes that I am slowly adjusting to this big increase in running mileage.

Anyhow, the shoes finally arrived today!


These would be the new race spikes. The Nike Zoom Forever XC. Pretty sweet looking, I think.

And even more sweet looking...



I wanted a pair of lighter weight trainers and these Nike Air Zoom Hayward +3's should do the job nicely. Obviously inspired prefontain and the University of Oregon these shoes go back to the grassroot days of runnning. In fact the tongue of the shoe even has this inscribed on it- "Designed from Steve Prefontaine's actual drawing and what he wanted in a training shoe." Pretty ballin if you ask me. I'm almost scared to run in them, for fear I'd mar their gorgeous luster.

In other news I now have cable for the first time in my life and an Anatomy and Physiology lab exam tomorrow. If anyone out there knows what pseudostratified cuboidal epithelial cells look like would you please let me know?

Home meet

Here are a few pictures from our home cross country meet. I'm the guy with the red socks.

Life in Tyler

I don't know what happened to me the last month, just didn't feel like posting I guess. I'm out in Tyler, Tx now. Attending the University of Texas at Tyler. Life is good, it's a lot of fun being "on my own" so to speak. Running is going pretty well. The switch from a triathlon focus to a running focus hasn't come easy, lots of aches and pains along the way but its been fun. Last week I ran the most I ever have in my life- 59 miles in 6 days. Had a couple really solid workouts but my legs shins and achilles tendons were definitely feeling it by Saturday. So in the face of an oncoming hurricane Ike I ran an easy 9 miles at the lake with my friend Jess. Why, you may ask, did I not go through "extra mile" to reach 10 miles and 60 for the week? Well... I'm not sure, I just didn't feel like.

School is going pretty well as I haven't flunked anything yet. Of course I've only had 1 test and a couple quizzes, the worst is yet to come. If I can only remember where stratified cuboidal cells are located, the sample variance formula, and what the heck Z score equals I should be able to finish out the semester with a 4.0. Thats the goal anyways.

Sorry for the short update but we've got repeat miles at the track tomorrow. 5-8 repeats at tempo pace with 1' recovery. Can't wait.