cewait
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- Mar 3, 2000
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Hi all.
Long time, no talk. Sorry for jumping off the board with no explanation. Its been a long three months.
The last time I visited, I had just completed a nice long run on Kaanapoli Beach in Maui. A couple days later I arrived back in Houston then life went weird. An IT project that I am a sponsor (or customer of) of went south with a major milestone demonstration that failed to work. Rather than allow the project manager to fail, I assumed project manager duties along with everything else. Unfortunately, that was just the beginning of wheels falling off. Without going into a lot of detail, I just had to focus energy on things that keep bread on the table and left extras whither. This coupled with having a person I thought of as a friend get weird and start acting like a child, I went into a mental funk and a complete stopping of running.
So I am back in a limited capacity, training uber hard and trying like many folks to keep priorities normalized. My IT project is still c%$p but is on a course that will right the ship; just months late. Funny, my IT PM seems to have lots of personal issues pop up in weeks where we have tough deliverables. No one seems to care, so I wont either. Though it is really funny that the guy has a 1yr old and a wife who is a stay at home mom + a nanny. Next week for a huge management meeting, he just announced his nanny quit and he needs to work from home! Finally, I decided to let the former friend be the two faced jerk other friends told me he was and move on.
I am on an expedited training plan that should get me back into January in decent shape, just not where I will want to be. OR maybe it will put me on the disabled list. For those who are wondering... adding about 15-20% distance every other week and doing lots of core/stability work. I am about 4-6 weeks behind and will be on schedule in mid December. READER ALERT this is not a do as I do thing and should only be followed with extreme caution and knowledge of body.
Even though I am getting back into running shape, I find motivation lacking. This is year 13 for me looping around Disney property and my seventh Goofy. I was able to grab the motivation rings late last year but have not found the will to get out the door without a lot of mental coercion. Last years full was # 20 for me, so that had some pull. I am probably not going to enter early next year and see if I find motivation prior to entering. I hate to break my streak but I am not feeling the desire to come to central Florida the first weekend after the first full week of the year. Its a new feeling for me as I have historically had over motivational issues biting off more than I should.
As I was exiting, I was trying out the new Forerunner 610. It is the BEST Garmin to date; with the exception of losing a few pixels on the screen in the quadrant data view. Oh, and that the backlight does not flip on when a notice comes out. For the Run walkers the countdown timer works flawlessly, even providing a vibration alert. For those who have the 400 series, there is an improvement when going onto power save mode. Garmin gives the option of a vibration alert for that, also. The largest gripe I have heard from the 400 users is that they turn the unit on when getting into the corral only to have the unit go to power save before the race starts. My office neighbor runs without glasses so he can be screwed in a pre-dawn start. He has no idea what mode his Garmin is in until heading down the road.
Runkeeper Updates. I am jazzed about the new runkeeper updates. I have not used them but I really think the things like auto pause are a great add.
I hope all are doing well. Will back track through the posts this weekend and see how all are doing.
In the mean time, it is really time to focus on learning what you have in your toolbox this year. As you hit those tough spots from now until the end, remember the little mental tricks used to keep heading down the road. Those are invaluable tools for race day when at mile xx you feel like you want to bail. These tools can keep you from panicking and keep you heading down the road.
Train Hard - Train Smart
Long time, no talk. Sorry for jumping off the board with no explanation. Its been a long three months.
The last time I visited, I had just completed a nice long run on Kaanapoli Beach in Maui. A couple days later I arrived back in Houston then life went weird. An IT project that I am a sponsor (or customer of) of went south with a major milestone demonstration that failed to work. Rather than allow the project manager to fail, I assumed project manager duties along with everything else. Unfortunately, that was just the beginning of wheels falling off. Without going into a lot of detail, I just had to focus energy on things that keep bread on the table and left extras whither. This coupled with having a person I thought of as a friend get weird and start acting like a child, I went into a mental funk and a complete stopping of running.
So I am back in a limited capacity, training uber hard and trying like many folks to keep priorities normalized. My IT project is still c%$p but is on a course that will right the ship; just months late. Funny, my IT PM seems to have lots of personal issues pop up in weeks where we have tough deliverables. No one seems to care, so I wont either. Though it is really funny that the guy has a 1yr old and a wife who is a stay at home mom + a nanny. Next week for a huge management meeting, he just announced his nanny quit and he needs to work from home! Finally, I decided to let the former friend be the two faced jerk other friends told me he was and move on.
I am on an expedited training plan that should get me back into January in decent shape, just not where I will want to be. OR maybe it will put me on the disabled list. For those who are wondering... adding about 15-20% distance every other week and doing lots of core/stability work. I am about 4-6 weeks behind and will be on schedule in mid December. READER ALERT this is not a do as I do thing and should only be followed with extreme caution and knowledge of body.
Even though I am getting back into running shape, I find motivation lacking. This is year 13 for me looping around Disney property and my seventh Goofy. I was able to grab the motivation rings late last year but have not found the will to get out the door without a lot of mental coercion. Last years full was # 20 for me, so that had some pull. I am probably not going to enter early next year and see if I find motivation prior to entering. I hate to break my streak but I am not feeling the desire to come to central Florida the first weekend after the first full week of the year. Its a new feeling for me as I have historically had over motivational issues biting off more than I should.
As I was exiting, I was trying out the new Forerunner 610. It is the BEST Garmin to date; with the exception of losing a few pixels on the screen in the quadrant data view. Oh, and that the backlight does not flip on when a notice comes out. For the Run walkers the countdown timer works flawlessly, even providing a vibration alert. For those who have the 400 series, there is an improvement when going onto power save mode. Garmin gives the option of a vibration alert for that, also. The largest gripe I have heard from the 400 users is that they turn the unit on when getting into the corral only to have the unit go to power save before the race starts. My office neighbor runs without glasses so he can be screwed in a pre-dawn start. He has no idea what mode his Garmin is in until heading down the road.
Runkeeper Updates. I am jazzed about the new runkeeper updates. I have not used them but I really think the things like auto pause are a great add.
I hope all are doing well. Will back track through the posts this weekend and see how all are doing.
In the mean time, it is really time to focus on learning what you have in your toolbox this year. As you hit those tough spots from now until the end, remember the little mental tricks used to keep heading down the road. Those are invaluable tools for race day when at mile xx you feel like you want to bail. These tools can keep you from panicking and keep you heading down the road.
Train Hard - Train Smart
Well, if anything, even if most of us have never met you in person, you are a true friend to all of us and we couldn't have accomplished finishing races without your advice and encouragement. 
