This winter sucks.

How many sick-days can I have since Oct?  Feels like a lot.  Was sick Wednesday/Thursday last week - as well as today.  Managed a swim at MIT Thursday; did 2 short (~30 min.) training sessions and 1 short (3.5 mile) run as well.  How much is did last week suck?  Temps in the single digits, tv broke, car battery dead - aaa wouldn't drop a battery in - not sure why.  And I feel like crap today - so skipping my strength training now.  

On the bright side, started the 100 push-up thing again  Actually had a pretty good week at work and a nice date night at the Watch City Brewery.  Can't say I was crazy about their brews though - out of ipa, 'titan ale, kinda weird wit, no trippel or dunkel.

Hopefully I'll be feeling better next week and get some runs in.

Go Junior!

Go Larry Nance Jr!  I have no idea if this kid is a jerk or not, but his father was one of the most under-rated players in NBA history.  So having never seen a Wyoming game - Go JR!  Hope your team kicks ass!  As a Sun's fan growing up in Phx, I witnessed LN Sr. single handed-ly hold-off a Kareem/Magic-lead Lakers team.  Phoenix never had much, but we did have Nance, Sweet D, Wallace and Ladmo - that's about it.  The dude was completely awesome (and a Clemson grad to boot!).  Perhaps the stars align for young Jr. and they make the final 4.  It's the least that could happen for a young lad who had the misfortune of growing-up in Ohio...

Ok week.  One strength, 2 runs (4; 4.5) a few bikes - a bit limited by snow and (again) sickness.  Not bad for mid-winter...

New Year Running.

Survived the holidays - onto 2013.  Like most people - I have a list of things I'd like to do this year.  For some reason, I'm in a mood to get more tech-savvy.  I'm taking this course on Coursera for R computing.  I'm already decent - but never had any formal training - so I figured it's a relatively quick way to go about that.  I also purchased this cool little electronics programing kit.  I do a bit of programming at work - but it never really leaves the computer - this is satisfying in that I can write a program and then something physical/electronic happens.  Not as geeky - but I also went skiing for the first time in ~15 years today with my kids.  Only spilled 3 times.  Felt alright.  

In running news - I'd like to hit this race in the Spring.  10k in spring and try and parlay that into a 1/2 next fall.  I did a good bit of running this week: 14 miles - my most since last June (pre-move).  Not that 14 is a lot - but I've had trouble getting 3 solids in/week - and this marks the first time that's happened.  I also logged 20 miles on the bike.  So a good way to start.  Yesterday's run I did the 3.8 mile bridge-bridge in 29 minutes - good for ~7:40 pace (maybe less).  It felt hard - first hard running in a lonnnggg time.  Although now I feel sick - so a lot of good it did me.  Hopefully I can shake this off before Monday.  I'd like to try and do a lunch bike ride on Tuesday.  Just because I can - and it's been way too long since I biked more that 2.5 miles at one time (pathetic yes).  

'Sept for the cold - a pretty good start to '13.