Wednesday, August 15th
6:30 PM - 7.5 Miles - 48 min
Fells - middle and lower res
Today was just an all around good feeling day. I started out with my second chiropractic adjustment first thing in the morning and was in and out pretty quick. The doctor I've been working with is very young and also went to school for physical therapy so I feel pretty comfortable talking with him about various injuries and running. Also, it doesn't seem like he's screwed me up too bad yet so I guess I'll go back on Friday with an open mind and listen to what they recommend for me down the road.
After that, I came back home and had some time to kill before going into work so I gave in to my latest addiction and browsed Flotrack for a while. I'm sure most of you reading this know how cool this site is, but if you haven't seen it, definitely check it out. It's probably the best thing to hit distance running since removable spikes. It'd strongly recommend watching the Flotrack Lueven 800 - it's absolutely hilarious and Andrew Carlson may be the coolest commentator I've ever seen! ...Anyway, getting to the point (I get sidetracked easily)... Since I'm such a huge fan of this site, and am always looking for more distractions, I decided to create a profile on their flotrackr section and start posting times and pictures there. I probably wont use it for logging miles since I already have this one going but I may recap some of my races on there. Basically this new feature they've added is like Facebook for runners; it has most of the same features as far as messaging and writing on walls, with the added bonuses of being able to enter race results, personal bests, logs, etc. It's pretty cool so I encourage anyone to check it out and of course add me as a friend to view my profile.
After setting that up, I went to work and had a great time working with Tony and Sarad. Sarad is pretty cool to work with because we usually just hang out and talk about how we'd love to make it big someday and not having to work anymore. Today we probably spent an hour talking about which pro runners we thought were really respectable and which ones are just plain duchebags ...always a good time.
After work, I came home and had an awesome run in the fells ... it was just great weather and I was feeling really comfortable cruising through the trails. I started thinking a lot about the upcoming cross season and how great our team is going to be this year. I also crossed paths with Steve Meinelt on the run which was pretty cool. I hadn't seen him in quite a while and certainly didn't expect to see him up in those parts. For those that don't know, he's been pretty successful this past year and has gotten some decent press in Running Times and NE Runner.
Lastly, I was going to close things out today with a quote from Nick Rogers but Mario beat me to it and used the exact quote that I was planning on. It definitely holds true for myself as well as several of my friends and teammates. So instead of that one, I'll just use a quote that was directed towards him instead... It's simple but also substantial.
Quote of the day:
"Do you know how you run 13:28?
-Know you can do it!"
- Bill Dellinger to Nick Rogers before he ran 13:18 and qualified for the 2000 Olympics
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