Well, for dramatic flair, once I do today's run - which will be later, for the countdown, we'll have 3 runs to go to hit the magic 110. This is a first as I'm posting this AM and haven't run yet. But I did yesterday's run at 9:30 at night (yes, I'm sorry to say on a treadmill but it was a good 7 mile fast-paced one) so figured I'd capture it now. Later today, I'll be running with Teens Run Yonkers - after that I may do my own run as well. Either way, I'll be moving.
I also wanted to thank you (and you know who you are but I'm not fully sure) as according to blogger stats, we had 37 page views yesterday which is a new and very exciting high. So, what enticed you? My goal as I mentioned the other day is to transition this into a blog that supports my work with Teens Run Yonkers - so it will include tips on running, training, youth development, achievement and other stuff that will connect to the program. PLEASE, PLEASE, if you were one of those 37 that checked this out yesterday (or on other days and now you're back), first THANK YOU! There's a lot of blogs you could be reading but you're reading this and I appreciate it. SECOND: please join as a subscriber, follower (whatever the very proper title is) and THIRD: write some stuff, commonly known as a response. Let me know what will keep you coming back? how to spice it up but keep it clean? make it fun, interactive, etc.
Finally, I was eager to jump back to the blog early this AM as I did have a very "Seinfeldian" (new word? - I'm guessing someone has said this) experience yesterday. I won't name names (and no this isn't about Hop Sing) but my family and I went to a particular restaurant and had a very - shall we say - disappointing experience. I'm not going to elaborate. In any event, it was similar to the popular "The Chinese Restaurant" episode. So, some questions - What movie is the gang going to see after they (hopefully) eat at the 5th Avenue Chinese Restaurant? What superhero does George mention as he's describing his most recent romantic challenge? And what is the name of the acquaintance Jerry bumps into at the restaurant? Enjoy your meal....
Monday, March 19, 2012
Saturday, March 17, 2012
105 - and 5 more to go - Go Teens Run Yonkers! And what's the Deal with Dry Cleaners?
Hi All,
Well, I'm glad to say my running and efforts have been more consistent than my blogging. But if you've been following this at all, you know that by now. I can only hope to be more consistent. Because, as it happens, there are only - believe it or not - 5 more days to go in my 110 Days of Running. Wow!
There's a couple things I really am looking forward to. 1) Giving myself some break days. As much as I love doing this, at 47, I'm finally starting to occasionally "feel it" a bit more than I used to. While that's to to be expected, with this going on, I haven't been so kind to my body. 2) Doing a more normal and smart marathon training routine. While I'm bummed that I was closed out of Pittsburgh, I think fate put me back at the New Jersey Marathon on May 6th. As you may recall - I put it in another post - this is the race I was entered into last year but had to skip due to some surgery; and that was after my 100 days of running. So, it seems only right that I'll finish (what I never actually started) and do this one after my 110 days. While it's not an excuse, I can't help think that my Miami experience (a.k.a. BAD) wasn't helped by the previous nearly 60 days of break less running. 3) Building in some other cross training -I've tried to do this over this period but continued to make running number 1 so that always got placed second or third. One thing I'm both looking forward to but not looking forward to figuring out all the 110 Day Stats. It should be interesting to compile the # of hours, miles, long runs, short runs and all other kinds of menusha that happened over these 110 Days. But I'll save that for the end.
I also - and here's the early plug -will be using this blog to either transition or launch more of Teens Run Yonkers Blog. I have only alluded to it occasionally but the program is truly moving in the direction I've always envisioned for it; great kids enjoying the running experience, challenging themselves to go further with the help of mentors and the emergence of a true TRY community. I've really been thrilled to have parents coming out and walking and running with us. Their support is so integral and any time we've been fortunate to have parents and family members out there running with our students, the experience has been that much greater. We had a great run today - we now have steady Saturday Training Runs 9:00 at Tibbetts Brook Park. Next week, we'll be holding our Teens Run Yonkers TRY 5K+ and am looking forward to a great turnout.
Finally, for those (billions) of you that have been agonizing for some Seinfeld Trivia, my recent challenges with our dry cleaner - Saturday is always pick up day in the burbs - is fresh on my mind. I'm sure you've noticed that Seinfeld - both on the show and in his 90's act - had several bits about dry cleaners. Anyway, at minimum, there were two episodes that dealt with Jerry's experiences - both good and bad - at the dry cleaner. I don't remember the names but a general description will do for our purposes. What fairly famous actress was featured on the show in one? And what other movie actress figured into the other? And for all the marbles, what is the name of his dry cleaner in one of these episodes? OK - that should keep you busy and thinking for a few minutes on this beautiful St. Patrick's Day afternoon.
Oh yes, Happy Saint Patrick's Day - have fun but be safe!
Well, I'm glad to say my running and efforts have been more consistent than my blogging. But if you've been following this at all, you know that by now. I can only hope to be more consistent. Because, as it happens, there are only - believe it or not - 5 more days to go in my 110 Days of Running. Wow!
There's a couple things I really am looking forward to. 1) Giving myself some break days. As much as I love doing this, at 47, I'm finally starting to occasionally "feel it" a bit more than I used to. While that's to to be expected, with this going on, I haven't been so kind to my body. 2) Doing a more normal and smart marathon training routine. While I'm bummed that I was closed out of Pittsburgh, I think fate put me back at the New Jersey Marathon on May 6th. As you may recall - I put it in another post - this is the race I was entered into last year but had to skip due to some surgery; and that was after my 100 days of running. So, it seems only right that I'll finish (what I never actually started) and do this one after my 110 days. While it's not an excuse, I can't help think that my Miami experience (a.k.a. BAD) wasn't helped by the previous nearly 60 days of break less running. 3) Building in some other cross training -I've tried to do this over this period but continued to make running number 1 so that always got placed second or third. One thing I'm both looking forward to but not looking forward to figuring out all the 110 Day Stats. It should be interesting to compile the # of hours, miles, long runs, short runs and all other kinds of menusha that happened over these 110 Days. But I'll save that for the end.
I also - and here's the early plug -will be using this blog to either transition or launch more of Teens Run Yonkers Blog. I have only alluded to it occasionally but the program is truly moving in the direction I've always envisioned for it; great kids enjoying the running experience, challenging themselves to go further with the help of mentors and the emergence of a true TRY community. I've really been thrilled to have parents coming out and walking and running with us. Their support is so integral and any time we've been fortunate to have parents and family members out there running with our students, the experience has been that much greater. We had a great run today - we now have steady Saturday Training Runs 9:00 at Tibbetts Brook Park. Next week, we'll be holding our Teens Run Yonkers TRY 5K+ and am looking forward to a great turnout.
Finally, for those (billions) of you that have been agonizing for some Seinfeld Trivia, my recent challenges with our dry cleaner - Saturday is always pick up day in the burbs - is fresh on my mind. I'm sure you've noticed that Seinfeld - both on the show and in his 90's act - had several bits about dry cleaners. Anyway, at minimum, there were two episodes that dealt with Jerry's experiences - both good and bad - at the dry cleaner. I don't remember the names but a general description will do for our purposes. What fairly famous actress was featured on the show in one? And what other movie actress figured into the other? And for all the marbles, what is the name of his dry cleaner in one of these episodes? OK - that should keep you busy and thinking for a few minutes on this beautiful St. Patrick's Day afternoon.
Oh yes, Happy Saint Patrick's Day - have fun but be safe!
Monday, March 12, 2012
DAY 100!
Well this is kind of exciting - so I hit day 100 today. For point of reference, this is where I had stopped last year.
And a bit of a challenging day to do it as I completely wrenched my neck over the weekend. My wife was telling me I absolutely looked like an old man yesterday from the way I was carrying myself. I was truly hurting. So, I'm happy that by about 5:30 today I felt rested enough to do a pretty decent 5 mile tempo on the treadmill at a pace I was happy about.
Also, a bit bummed to share that the Pittsburgh Marathon was in fact sold out. But since I'd been training towards May 6th as a Marathon day, I fortunately found another one to do. And of all irony, I ended up signing up for the New Jersey Marathon. This is ironic as the surgery which stopped me from going beyond 100 last year also kept me from completing this Marathon which I had signed up for last year. So it feels like there's some sort of weird and good symmetry to it all.
I don't really have a Seinfeld connector for any of this other than I was happy to see my mom and stepfather for his birthday this weekend. We took them out to dinner and they were much more gracious than Jerry's dad was that time he lost his wallet. If you recall, he kept insisting that he should pay for dinner when in fact, he had no money on him. As he had lost his wallet. Where did he "lose" it. In fact, it was a double episode that involved the "loss" of something that they give to Jerry. What was it and how does he try to recover it?
And a bit of a challenging day to do it as I completely wrenched my neck over the weekend. My wife was telling me I absolutely looked like an old man yesterday from the way I was carrying myself. I was truly hurting. So, I'm happy that by about 5:30 today I felt rested enough to do a pretty decent 5 mile tempo on the treadmill at a pace I was happy about.
Also, a bit bummed to share that the Pittsburgh Marathon was in fact sold out. But since I'd been training towards May 6th as a Marathon day, I fortunately found another one to do. And of all irony, I ended up signing up for the New Jersey Marathon. This is ironic as the surgery which stopped me from going beyond 100 last year also kept me from completing this Marathon which I had signed up for last year. So it feels like there's some sort of weird and good symmetry to it all.
I don't really have a Seinfeld connector for any of this other than I was happy to see my mom and stepfather for his birthday this weekend. We took them out to dinner and they were much more gracious than Jerry's dad was that time he lost his wallet. If you recall, he kept insisting that he should pay for dinner when in fact, he had no money on him. As he had lost his wallet. Where did he "lose" it. In fact, it was a double episode that involved the "loss" of something that they give to Jerry. What was it and how does he try to recover it?
Thursday, March 8, 2012
The Long Run -
Finally, a good long run and what a beautiful day to do it. As always, went out a bit too fast (for me anyway) but was able to reign it in and still finish at a pace that made sense. I covered the Yonkers Half Marathon Route which was almost fresh since I haven't done it in awhile. In the lemons to lemonade category, my ipod shuffle imploded - naturally, it was about two years old- about 4 miles in so it was actually nice to remember that I don't need music - kind of had my own good rhythm. In terms of the ipod, I'm sort of happy about it as it was one of those from 2009 (maybe 2010?) can't remember but it looks more like a flash drive than an ipod - no controls and everything had to be done from the headphones - definitely one of the few Apple duds in a long time. And I'm sure it was a dud because they switched back to the old style.
I was in a speech contest today (I'm in Toastmasters - the public speaking club) and was thinking of Kramer's continual pointer that "poise counts". Remember the Pageant?? Which state was Jerry's date representing? And what was her talent?
That's it for today - I'm beat!
I was in a speech contest today (I'm in Toastmasters - the public speaking club) and was thinking of Kramer's continual pointer that "poise counts". Remember the Pageant?? Which state was Jerry's date representing? And what was her talent?
That's it for today - I'm beat!
Wednesday, March 7, 2012
Monday, March 5, 2012
Day 94 - I think I've got Vertigo (and so does the Artist)
pretty quiet day for my own personal running but a fun one for teens run yonkers - we had a great group run; all our teens were invited to either run the loop around the lake at tibbetts brook park or do a smaller loop around the "top ring" at the park. it was a great way to get a handle on the variety of paces so we can start to set up some good and accurate pacing groups. as for my own personal running, just a very light four miles on the tmill which I was glad to get in as it became a pretty hectic day.
I forgot to mention that I saw the Oscar winning "Artist" over the weekend. I was really pleasantly surprised - in all candor, I'm always really skeptical of movies that win everything. I am a "sleeper' in movies and especially with the silent format, I was pretty sure my wife would be elbowing me 5 minutes in.. Not to be - was awake throughout..Two really notable things about our experience was 1) we saw the movie in this very old-time, nonprofit movie theater - just sort of a nice change from the usual multi-tripli plex that we're used to seeing movies in and 2) I was totally surprised at the infusion of chunks of the score from my favorite all time movie Vertigo into the movie. I'm watching, enjoying and all the sudden I'm like "isn't this music from Vertigo? Turns out that I wasn't the only one - in this day and age, of course I google The Artist, Vertigo and see there's this huge controversy about it including Kim Novak of Vertigo fame saying that her movie was raped. Other's had all kinds of stuff. Me - I was just kind of curious
Anyway, speaking of movies, movies are prominent in tons of episodes. Here's questions from just a few. In the episode "The Dog", which movie do they keep missing because Jerry has to stay with the dog? And what's the dog's name? In another episode, Jerry is supposed to meet the gang at the movies but his evening keeps getting messed up due to trying to schewdule his shows- what movie does he finally end up at and who does he go with? Finally, in the episode that involves bootlegging, which movie that he shoots ends up featuring Elaine dancing badly? So...let's go to the movies...
I forgot to mention that I saw the Oscar winning "Artist" over the weekend. I was really pleasantly surprised - in all candor, I'm always really skeptical of movies that win everything. I am a "sleeper' in movies and especially with the silent format, I was pretty sure my wife would be elbowing me 5 minutes in.. Not to be - was awake throughout..Two really notable things about our experience was 1) we saw the movie in this very old-time, nonprofit movie theater - just sort of a nice change from the usual multi-tripli plex that we're used to seeing movies in and 2) I was totally surprised at the infusion of chunks of the score from my favorite all time movie Vertigo into the movie. I'm watching, enjoying and all the sudden I'm like "isn't this music from Vertigo? Turns out that I wasn't the only one - in this day and age, of course I google The Artist, Vertigo and see there's this huge controversy about it including Kim Novak of Vertigo fame saying that her movie was raped. Other's had all kinds of stuff. Me - I was just kind of curious
Anyway, speaking of movies, movies are prominent in tons of episodes. Here's questions from just a few. In the episode "The Dog", which movie do they keep missing because Jerry has to stay with the dog? And what's the dog's name? In another episode, Jerry is supposed to meet the gang at the movies but his evening keeps getting messed up due to trying to schewdule his shows- what movie does he finally end up at and who does he go with? Finally, in the episode that involves bootlegging, which movie that he shoots ends up featuring Elaine dancing badly? So...let's go to the movies...
Sunday, March 4, 2012
Day 93 - still at this - and a stake out
Well, despite a little drop off in my posts, yes, I am still at this and hit day 93 of my consistent running today so officially, another 17 days before I'm giving my legs a break. Had a couple fun runs over the past couple of days. For my 11th Anniversary, my wife and I headed (and our two dogs) headed north to upstate new york to beautiful and historic Marbletown New York. it's famous for - let's see - not that much actually. But it was nice and quiet and peaceful. Actually the two most notable things are that it's about 20 minutes from the well known Mohonk Mountain House, an amazing and huge 300+ room resort that has some breathtaking scenery. Also - and this will impress your friends and neighbors - it's in proximity to the Emerson Museum which houses the world's largest - not New Yorks, not just the US's largest - BUT the world's largest kaleidoscope. Now, we didn't go - but now we have a reason to return. Someday. Anyway, had some a few nice cold runs along the roadways there- clearly running is not big up there. I usually see at least one fellow runner - but no, none to be found. Anyway, always nice to see some new scenery.
And on the subject of B&B's, I'm happily reminded of two episodes which featured Jerry's short time of dating Vanessa, a lawyer he met at a party he attends with Elaine. The first of these episodes is called the Stake Out - if you've seen it you know why. During the second episode featuring Vanessa, they head up to a B&B in Vermont; it doesn't go well. Anyway, a couple fun trivia pieces from that? What is the name of Elaine's friend who is having the birthday? What is the name of the law firm - noted several times in the episode - that Jerry and George stake out. And what is their excuse for being there? During that 2nd episode, Jerry and George have invested some $$ in a "sure thing" stock - what is the name of the company. Finally, what is supposed to be particularly charming about the B&B? If you're still reading, it must be a quiet Sunday - hope your week starts well..
And on the subject of B&B's, I'm happily reminded of two episodes which featured Jerry's short time of dating Vanessa, a lawyer he met at a party he attends with Elaine. The first of these episodes is called the Stake Out - if you've seen it you know why. During the second episode featuring Vanessa, they head up to a B&B in Vermont; it doesn't go well. Anyway, a couple fun trivia pieces from that? What is the name of Elaine's friend who is having the birthday? What is the name of the law firm - noted several times in the episode - that Jerry and George stake out. And what is their excuse for being there? During that 2nd episode, Jerry and George have invested some $$ in a "sure thing" stock - what is the name of the company. Finally, what is supposed to be particularly charming about the B&B? If you're still reading, it must be a quiet Sunday - hope your week starts well..
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