Another hard day at practice…lots and lots of weights not to mention a good ol fashioned hard run to start it off with.

So sometimes when you are out and about running it can be like a treasure hunt. I mean how many of you have found a CD, Credit Cards, or a few bucks? Well I have been lucky on a lot of my runs…not as lucky as my High School Coach who found some money that was just stolen from a bank but I have found a brand new video game $50 value, around $100 once, a used…well nevermind, and this past Sunday Corey and me were out and came across a 55″ 1080 DLP Flat Screen TV. Needless to say our pace hastened as we headed back to my house to grab a car to haul this thing back to my house.

After we get it back to the house we plug it and turn it on…of course it doesn’t work properly…it looks in perfect condition and tries to turn on but something is just not right…So after a few Google searches and my handy Andy skills I pull the thing apart and find out that the light is burnt out on it which is only an $88 part. So it’s in the mail and HOPEFULLY this is the only glitch in the system. If this thing works perfectly after I swap the lights this might be my greatest find ever!!! I’ll keep you all posted.

If any of you have any great finds please post them down below!

Just a couple Garmin posts to get you caught up on some of the runs.

Happy New Year Everyone! I hope you all had a great night that was fun and safe. Also I hope you all were capable of getting up and either racing or running…heck for some of you, who might have had too much fun last night, just getting up was probably an accomplishment.

We had a beautiful afternoon for a long run today. I also got to test out my new Mizuno Wave Creations which felt awsome!!

Our run started off with sunshine and low 40’s but we picked it up a bit towards the end as the wind picked up and the temp dropped sharply. By the time we finished it was 30’s and starting to snow…it was spring for about 3 hours today ;-/

Also for those of you who are a little unfamiliar with the Garmin Plugin that I’m posting…if you click on the name of the run “Hudson Mills 14.0” it will actually bring up the run details. Enjoy!!

Today we had a nice hard workout…I think coach was hoping it was a little harder but we did a 4 x Mile 4:48, 4:43, 4:41, 4:29 then a little leg turnover with 3x200m at 29, 27, 27. Here is where the Soft of it all came into play.

This is probably one of the slowest cool downs I have ever done in my life 🙂

Had a nice run around the lake today with Justin and Corey. The roads were covered in snow with a nice under layer of ice and a pretty solid breeze on some sections. This is such a nice loop…you only pass about 5 cars, 6 deer, and a few horses. Come check it out sometime.

Today was a nice and relaxing run with my bro. Which was well deserved after coach killed me yesterday by having us do a 4 mile tempo run 5:11, 5:04, 4:54, 4:48 =20:00 then I jumped over about 120 hurdles.

Ok my wonderful wife got me a sweet Garmin watch for my birthday a few weeks back so I am finally learning how to use it.  So we are now going to see if I can link it properly with this website and Facebook.  The data that this thing brings is awesome.  I still have to get the heart rate monitor set up…but that is another battle.  So this should be a Saturday long run from the 11th of December called Super Gallup.

Super Gallup

No matter what level of runner or of anything that it is that you do, you have to have goals.  I have always had goals with my life and with running.  I feel that goals help keep us on track.  I remember writing my first goal sheet back in Jr. High, which I still have, I also got a Snickers bar for filling it out 😉  But they were all end game goals.

We all say “I want to be X or do X”  but what we always fail to do is look at the ladder i.e. how many steps are there to get to my goal.  In my former life as a financial planner I always had people say they want to retire at 55…never once thought about how much money they would need at age 25, 35, 45 to make sure they reached their goals by 55.

So if I am to have a goal of claiming an American record in the steeplechase, which is a pretty lofty goal, and I fail at attaining that goal but I hit several of the steps on the way to it, I would then still have a pretty successful career as a chaser.

So here is my ladder, the top USA times in the Steeplechase of all time.

Information gathered from www.Alltime-Athletics.com

16 x 400m avg. 67 low…starting to come around. Now we just got to get those a little closer to 60 🙂