Fran + Sickness

Wednesday:

"Fran"
21-15-9
95# Thrusters
Pullups

3:59 (PR by 3:02)



Today:

Rest- Sick!

COMMENTS

• General: Reached my Fran time for the year which I was very happy about. Haven't done that workout in nearly 2 years and I almost halfed my time. I honestly don't believe I would've gotten that time if I were still doing CrossFit. Today I woke up, vomited upon waking and spent the entire day in bed. Apparently got some type of virus of food poisoning but writing this at 10pm I'm feeling a lot better. No possible way I could've trained today after vomiting 5 times. So dehydrated I contemplated asking to go to the hospital.
• Nutrition: Shitty last night which I think led to my sickness today. So far today I've consumed 2 ginger ales and a 32oz gatorade and puked everything else up.
• Body: Weak as fuck today. Couldn't open my gatorade top today to give you somewhat of an indication...
• Sleep: 8 hours?
• Reflections: Not much besides I need to run 11 miles in the next 2 days for 500 on the year which I'd like to do but if I am still sick or dehydrated tomorrow may be difficult. Don't know if I'll train tomorrow.

Press, RDLs, core, run

Press
Worked up to 2x160#
155# for 3, 2

Seated Behind the neck press
70# for 12, 10, 10

Romanian Deadlifts
5x5x205#


2x25 Decline situps

3x25 Back Extensions
_______

50-60 min run with Contois at Rayburn Single track and some powerlines. Approx ~5 miles. Pouring rain and done at 8pm.


Mobility: Lower body stretching of hamstrings, quads and glutes

COMMENTS

• General: Overall good day. Press feeling stronger but still not where it once was. RDLs felt good with no back pain which has me very optomistic. Run was good but sloppy and we had to cut it short because of the trail condition and weather. I got some more Christmas presents today which include a massage stick (they are amazing), salt caps, new handheld water bottle, and some new running socks.
• Nutrition: Pretty good, ate more junk than normal pre-run.
• Body: Felt really good today but feeling weak still. Thinking a deload with the weights is in order next week.
• Sleep: 9 hours
• Reflections: Got a date with Fran tomorrow. Need to go sub 4:30 to meet my 2011 goal. Excited but nervous. Not sure if I'll do anything else.

Back Squat, Bench press, 2k row

Back Squat
Worked up to 5x330# (PR)
3x2x245# Dynamic Effort for backoff sets


Bench Press
5x185#
5x205#
2x230# (PR)
5x2x155# Dynamic (pause on chest 1 second, explode to lock out)



2k Row
6:50 (missed PR by 8 seconds)


Mobilitiy: Couch stretch for 1-2 min each side

COMMENTS

• General: 330x5 squat felt really good, 5th rep wasn't even too much of a grind. Bench I felt really weak on, my triceps were really weak from the arm program I did the other day but I still squeaked out a lifetime PR. Row PR was close but just didn't have it in me today. Decided to try DE on bench press because doing it with my squat is really helping to elevate my numbers and explosion out of the bottom.
• Nutrition: Pretty good, maybe too many carbs.
• Body: Pretty good. My upper body felt fatigued during training
• Sleep: Not sure
• Reflections: Going to have to bite the bullet on maybe not progressing my pressing movements during this program but it's OK because I have other goals. Looking forward to Smolov, I remembered I asked Shane Skowron for some advice and he told me to keep getting an easy run in each week just to keep my body adapted, which is what I'll do. Going to decide which day that will be on in the next couple days while I plan out the next month of training.

Holidays

Last couple days I've gotten in:

2 ~5 Mile runs


Squatted 3x325# (lifetime pr)


COMMENTS

• General: I started my arm routine too but don't feel like posting it. I am still sore from it writing this after 72 hours. Holidays have been great, got lots of stuff I needed including gymnastic rings and a neck harness. My diet was shit but that's kind of expected. Squat PR was really easy. Ran at Mt. Pisgah which is great for hill training.
• Nutrition: Ate probably 5000 calories each day lol. Good for recovery I suppose
• Body: Good minus sore arms
• Sleep: been spotty
• Reflections: Not much. Back to regular blogging.

Press, BTNP, brief conditioning

Press
2x155#
4x5x135#

Seated Behind The Neck Press
65# for 11, 10, 11


15-10-5
Log Front Squat (25#s on each side)
60# KB swings


COMMENTS

• General: Didn't time my conditioning but it was a good one, burner and went by quick. Press feeling stronger now that I'm eating more calories but not back to where I want it. Really liking the behind the neck press as I think they will help increase my weak delts size.
• Nutrtition: Pretty bad. Back on the wagon tomorrow now that I'm recovered
• Body: Good
• Sleep: 8 hour
• Reflections: 2 days of running, not sure if I'll do anything else the nex 2 days.

Squat, BP, pullups, dips

Back Squat
Worked up to 365x1 for a PR and lifetime PR match from summer
3x2x265# Dynamic Effort

Bench Press
3x3x205#
2x5x185#

Pullups Supersetted with Dips (BW)
16 (PR, 2011 goal reached), 12
12, 8
8, 8


Light "Arm Farm"
3x12-16 EZ Bar Curls
2x15 50# Skull Crushers


COMMENTS

• General: Really pleased to match the goal I had for back squat to wrap up the year in squat. My legs were pretty tired going into the day too so I think on full rest I have more in me. Hit my goal for the year with pullups. Basically just been working the movement a lot more frequently over the last few months and I double the amount of pullups I could do at the beginning of the year, and with much better form now. Moving onto next year I'd like to hit 20-25. Bench felt shitty because I was eating on a cut again.
• Nutrition: Ate really clean but had a burger with the bun and fixins to top the night off with some Nutella/PB. I'm happy with where the cut brought my body comp so I'm going to ease off it so I can recover my upper body and hit some PRs. Unlike the past where coming off a diet meant eat like a pig and get fat again, this time it just means I'm going to eat more in general and focus more on my training so I can continue to grow as opposed to trim out fat.
• Body: Felt good today just underrecovered in general. My upperbody felt pretty fatigued especially on the dips and benchpress.
• Sleep: Not too good, I was stressed yesterday and didn't sleep well last night
• Reflections: Pleased that I stuck with my cut, and just need to make sure I keep things in proportion going forth. I'll begin having coffee again in a few days too which I'm looking forward to. Looking ahead to the rest of the week I'm going to condition and lift tomorrow, powerlift on Wednesday, then get 2 solid runs in on Thursday and Friday. I'm going to run a 4 week program that is 1x a week for arm size over winter break because I'm a vain sack of crap. Supposedly promises .25-1" gains in 4 work outs with a proper diet. Worth a shot I think. That will start Saturday and run for 4 weeks with it getting moved to Sunday or Monday after the GAC Fat ass.

Speed Run + Lithia Springs

Morning:

5 mile run-
1st mile- warm up pace, probably 8-9min
2-3 mile- alternating hard 800m, medium 800m without stopping
4-5 mile- Ran at a good pace, not as fast as the 800s but picked it up on the last 2 laps

*Focused on leg speed and form as I went around the track


1:40 min Walk/Run- Estimate of 7 or 8 miles- at Lithia Springs in South Hadley, MA

*Ran hard for the first hour, including ascending and descending the mountain on the course, then got lost around 55 minutes in. Looped around twice before I found out where I was and mainly walked during that 45 minute time period. Ran probably 10 minutes of it


COMMENTS

• General: Overall happy with both runs. The first one was right after I got up, got hydrated and headed over to my school's track. I ran the last 2 miles in 16 minutes and I pushed it a lot harder on the 2nd and 3rd mile so I definitely got faster and built up some speed from that work out. Lithia Springs is absolute money for a long run while I'm at Springfield. I'd guess I could get a 4-5 hour run in there without touching the same trail twice. Ascending the mountain was an absolute bitch and it took a lot out of my already tired legs, but once I got to the top I loosened up and felt pretty good. It was about a 20 minute all out push to get to the top with some walking in between. I panicked when I got lost but just stayed focused, something I know will be important especially when I'm running in the middle of the night during future ultras.
• Nutrition: Clean
• Body: Upper body felt pretty miserable upon waking. Legs are really sore right now but they usually heal pretty well while I sleep.
• Sleep: 9 hours
• Reflections: I plan to use Lithia Springs frequently throughout second semester for my long runs. It's over a gallon of gas to get there but it's well worth it. I can develop some serious hill running ability if I continue climbing that type of terrain. Tomorrow I will rest and plan the rest of the week. I began working on my year in review post and it's pretty long but it will be up in a week or so. I also made a decision today to use the time period of a few days after GAC Fat Ass 50k for 3 weeks to run Smolov's squat program. I won't run at all during that 3 weeks but it's the only time I can do it this year until like next August and I'd like to squat 405 sooner rather than later. I'll finish and have 5 weeks to get ready for the Spring Thaw race. To compensate I will get as many runs as possible in between now and GAC.

Front squat, 20 rep, push press, arm farm

Front Squat 4x3204#
224#
244# (I think this ties my lifetime pr)
254# (definitely a lifetime PR)


Back Squat 1x20
225# (lifetime PR)

Push Press 5x3
155# beltless
165# beltless
3x175#

Bar Dips
16 (PR), 11, 9, 8, 9--- on all sets I went to near failure or failure, waited about 15 seconds then repped out another 3-5. Trying to add more stress to my triceps to increase size.

Curls
Seated Delong curls 3x6x40#'s
Couple other random variations

Bent Over Lateral Raises
3x12x15#'s


COMMENTS

• General: I'm going to start front squatting once or twice every two weeks. I like the movement and have always dogged it because my form is a little touchy and it sometimes hurts my wrists because I lack flexibility in the front rack. It will help improve all aspects of my training so I'm going to bite the bullet. The 20 rep set was just planned fun because 225# was a weight I stopped at twice during the summer with 19 reps because I thought I was going to pass out. This time it went up smooth and I probably could've repped out a few more. I push pressed instead of pressed because my upper body strength has been zapped recently and I figured I'd rather just put heavy weights overhead than not PR again.
• Nutrition: Clean as fuckkkk
• Body: Good. I iced my back 4 times today and it really is helping.
• Sleep: 8-9 hours
• Reflections: Very happy with how my training went today. I had planned to try the prowler today but I ducked out once again. I won't plan conditioning unless I'm going to do it for sure. Tomorrow I'll do two runs, 1 speedwork session in the morning and a good trail run later on at a place my friend told me about. 3 weeks from tomorrow until the GAC 50k.

Bench Press, pullups, HPC

Hang Power Clean 3-3-3
176
186
196 (PR)

Bench Press
Worked up to 225x1.... PR is 240# but failed at 245#
215 for 3 doubles
185x5 controlled

7 sets of Chinups
12, 8,7,6,7,6,6

Shoulder Assistance/Pump work


COMMENTS

• General: Wasn't too pleased with today. Guess I haven't eaten enough carbs and it's really affecting my upper body strength. I wanted to condition too but I felt pretty spent after what I got done. Tried adding more chinups to get a bigger stimulus.
• Nutrition: Really good
• Body: Good. I lacrosse ball rolled my back today which really helped loosen it up.
• Sleep: 8 hours
• Reflections: Lacrosse ball to the lower back everyday from now on. If I feel spent tomorrow then I will get in a long walk and call it a day. If I'm feeling pretty good I want to get a run in. We'll see in the morning

CrossFit, Run Ints, Ab ripper

AMRAP 10:
20 KB Swings 55#
20 Burpees

4 Rounds + 20 swings + 10 burpees (PR by 10 burpees and some swings)


Run 2 miles, alternating 400s going ~80% then picking it up to 90-95% every other lap. Stopped after one mile for a minute rest to stretch it out a bit then went after it again


Ab Ripper X with Dan

1 hour walk
COMMENTS

• General: Run felt good today, if I could work up to about 5 miles doing a work out just like that I think it would really improve the pace I can cruise at when I'm going long. Tried to do a good amount of conditioning today and achieved that so I was pleased.
• Nutrition: Clean. Going to cut a little bit more calories for the next 10 days and see what happens. Nothing drastic.
• Body: I'm feeling pretty good, just getting tired early in the day
• Sleep: 7-8 hours
• Reflections: I'm going to sign up for my first preparation race for Viaduct tomorrow, a 6 hour TARC race that was just released. It's in the middle of March which fits my schedule perfectly. As of right now that gives me 4 races leading up to my 100, one in January (GAC 50k), March (TARC 6 hour), April (I'm still deciding between 4--Traprock 50k, DRB 50m, Tarc Spring Classic 50k, and Lake Waramug 100k/50k-- I'll most likely go for the cheapest option or see if Contois wants to join me for one.) and May (Pineland Farms 50m). I think on top of my other running training this will be plenty of long runs to get me through a finish. My main focus will be to not get lazy in the over 2 months I will go between races in January-March, where it will be really cold and therefore my motivation will decrease. Just got to keep my priorities straight.
• Another thing of note- I'll be testing both my "Fran" time (ugh) and 100 burpees when I get home from school and can attempt them at my gym. I think I have a good shot of accomplishing both even though I haven't been training for either but we'll see what happens.

Psnatch, Squat, press, pullups, dips, etc.

Power Snatch
Worked up to 138# for a lifetime PR i think

Back Squat
275#
315#
355# (PR)
5x2x255# Dynamic

Press
5x115#
5x135#
4x135#

Behind The Neck Press w/ 75#
7,9,7

Weighted Pullups
2x6x25# (PR)

Weighted Dips
3x6x35# (PR)

2x30 Back Extensions

Lots of Curls

40 min walk

COMMENTS

• General: Squat felt so damn good today. Hit 355# with ease, debated going for 375# for a lifetime PR but didn't feel necessary. I'm confident that I can hit 4 plates within the next few months if I keep progressing this quickly. I think the dynamic squats are really benefiting me. My press is extremely weak due to my cutting recently. Seems like my lower body is recovering fine while my upper body is severely lagging behind. Continuing to PR on pullups and dips each week.
• Nutrition: Really good
• Body: Legs were kind of fatigued. I haven't been able to catch up on sleep either so I've been really tired.
• Sleep: 8-9 hours. While I try to drop a few lbs I've been getting up early to walk which has interrupted my sleep cycle.
• Reflections: I really feel tempted to start working in deadlifts again but I know I'm not ready still. I think I'm going to keep working my way up on the back extensions and just hope to add deadlifts back in a little over a month from now when I come back for second semester. That gives about 37 more days to let it fully heal. Behind the neck press came from an article I read that said it's a great way to increase deltoid size and since mine are very severely lacking in size I wanted to give them a try. They are a keeper as far as I can see.

Double Night runs

4-4.5 mile run at powerline trails, about 45 min long

6 mile run at Holden Rail Trail with Contois. Finished in 57 minutes.

Note: These runs were about half hour apart from eachother.

COMMENTS

• General: Got in a solid long run by combining the two of these with one day. Contois pushed me really hard on the second one, something I haven't done much or any of recently with my running and it felt good. I need to get more runs like that in whenever I run with him. Decided today I will definitely be doing the GAC 50k next month to get a long run in.
• Nutrition: Not as great but pretty solid
• Body: Good
• Sleep: 9 hours
• Reflections: Not much. Picking my races for 2012 tomorrow and hopefully will decide for sure.

Training and Music

Back Squat
5x315# (PR) not lifetime but for recently, haven't hit this since June.
2x3x275# Beltless

Bench Press
210#x5(PR), 3
1x4 195# pause on chest with low rest time

Power Shrugs
3x12x275# Strapped

SS Bicep curls and dips, used the preacher machine. Dips were 13, 10, 9


30 min walk

Did some hamstring and back mobility


COMMENTS

• General: Pretty good day of training. I had planned and wanted to work out with powerlifting but plans changed and I had to work out in the middle of the day when I wasn't expecting to so I made stuff up. 2 PR's is always nice though.
• Nutrition: Awesome
• Body: Good.
• Sleep: 8 hours maybe
• Reflections: Dogged the walk portion today, wanted to get another one in but got lazy. The song below is a recording of a song I wrote. I know my voice and guitar skills are in general a major work in progress, but it's something I'm just as committed to improving as my strength and endurance. The video is hidden so it's only viewable from the link I put in my blog. Some parts I butchered and was too lazy to re-record, so you'll have to deal with it. The thing I'm most looking forward to if I minor in music here at school is getting voice lessons so hopefully I can improve the weakest link of my game. I think posting this is a big step in my confidence level and hopefully in a year's time I'll have a lot more talent and stuff to show for.

Without further ado, Click Here

Clean, Press, 100 pullups

Clean 3x3
176 #form work, haven't done full cleans in a long time)
196#
201#- my guess is this is a PR, but I'm not sure


Press
Worked up to 165 for a 1rm, -10 from lifetime PR
5x3x135# Dynamic (explosion from bottom, pause on chest)

2x15 Back Extensions w/ 25# plate
2x20 Situps with a 25# plate


100 Strict pullups as fast as possible. Varied grip every 5 pullups after I did the first 15

Took about 15-16 min


COMMENTS

• General: Overhead felt really weak today, most likely because of the lifetime jerk PRs on Monday. My form and flexibility with the press are coming along nicely though. Haven't full cleaned in a while and my back didn't really like it so I'll probably stick to power cleans for now. Doing back extensions seems to make my back feel better so they will be frequented. Pullups were a challenge by the president of the PL team. Me and 3 others did it and I'm going to be very sore from it tomorrow.
• Nutrition: Clean
• Body: In general feel weak because of less food in me.
• Sleep: 8 hours
• Reflections: Looking to the rest of the week I've got a rest day tomorrow, strength and conditioning (going to pull out the prowler) tomorrow night and a run on Saturday or Sunday, whichever day has better weather. If I go Sunday I will train Saturday too.

Conditioning, Core work

500m Rows, 2 min recovery between effort:

1. 1:28
2. 1:34
3. 1:41



Core Work

1x25 of the following exercises
Situps
In and Outs
Bicycles
Mason Twist

2x15 Back Extensions


1 hour walk


COMMENTS

• General: Good day. Didn't PR on my 500m time but I attribute that to low carbohydrate levels. Going to start focusing on core work a lot more often as the new year approaches. It's important in both lifting and running and I've neglected it a lot.
• Nutrition: Really good
• Body: Upper body is a little sore otherwise fine
• Sleep: 8 hours
• Reflections: Just want to make a point, won't be drinking again for a while. I've felt the oncoming feeling of depression slowly creeping it's way back into my life and although I'm not sure why I don't want to exacerbate these feelings. I've got 2 weeks left on the semester so it's a given that I'm done with going out until next semester but beyond that I'm not sure. I need a break anyway. All strength training and another long walk tomorrow.

Back to the weights

Overhead Jerk
196
211 (lifetime pr)
216 (lifetime PR)


Back Squat
Worked up to 345x1 (PR)- not lifetime but most I've done in like 5 or 6 months
4 backoff sets at 2x225# emphasizing explosion out of hole


Tried benching 225x3, failed and decided not to bench


Accessory:

3x6x30# Weighted Dips (PR)
3x6x20# Weighted Pullups (PR)

Lots of curls


1.5 hours of walking
COMMENTS

• General: Really good day when you have 4 PRs. I'm pretty sure the jerk PR is a 25 or 30# PR from earlier this year but I can't remember. Squat felt pretty good, still not back to my lifetime of 365 but 345 wasn't too bad so I'm confident I'll hit it soon. Did a new type of curl today that gave me the biggest pump I've ever gotten, going to do that more.
• Nutrition: Dynamite. Clean and not as much food as I normally eat.
• Body: Back bothering me but otherwise good
• Sleep: 8 hours
• Reflections: Conditioning and 2 walks tomorrow as I continue the lean out process.

Rest

30 min walk


COMMENTS

• General: Not much to talk about today.
• Nutrition: Poor
• Body: Calves sore, back bothering me a lot
• Sleep: 9-10 hours
• Reflections: Really wasn't sore at all today from yesterdays run minus a bit in the lower legs. Happy with this weekend in general. Looking forward to next week I'm planning on beginning a cutting cycle that will last about 3 weeks. Going to try to lose a bit of body fat to finish the year 2011 looking a lot better than I am now. 2 weeks left of classes and 5 more days after that including 3 with exams then I'm home for almost a month. Pumped to train tomorrow. The following are my preliminary goals for 2012 that I'm working on right now.

2012 Training and Life Goals

Physical Training:

-          405# Back Squat

-          200# Strict Overhead Press

-          300# Bench Press

-          Complete a 100 mile run

-          1100 CrossFit Total

-          Muscle Up

-          20 Dead hang Pull-ups

-          Lose ten pounds of body fat and maintain that loss

-          No injuries that result in more than 2-4 weeks of recovery

Music

-          Learn to play a second instrument

-          Get 3 songs recorded

Life Goals

-          Get or be signed up for a Crossfit Level 1 Certification

-          Learn to meditate for 10 full minutes

-          Begin the process of eventual abstinence from alcohol by learning to control myself EVERYTIME I drink (Vomiting while partying 1 time= failure)

AND the races I'm planning to sign up for or do:

G.A.C. Fat Ass 50k- January 7^th, 2012

TARC Spring Classic 50k- April 28^th, 201

Pineland Farms 50m- Sometime in may

All of the above can change, but these are a rough idea

Skyline Run

~20 miles completed in about 4 hours and 20 minutes on the Skyline Trail in Stoneham, MA


COMMENTS

• General: Started off the day optomistic. Half hour into the run my goal was to finish 4 laps (32 miles), 1 less than what it was going into it. By the end of the first loop I was ready to go home. The Skyline trail is an absolute bitch, hardest thing I've ever run on before. I spent nearly 3 hours on the first loop lost for most of it and ended up running at least 2-3 more miles than I should've. Some guy doing the run was insisting we go one way even though I didn't think it was right, but I went because I didn't want to be alone. Frustrating to say the least. I did one more lap and realized I got a good run in and wasn't going to get anymore than 1 loop in before the cutoff came, so I packed it in early and headed home.
• Nutrition: Pretty bad
• Body: I hit my knees pretty hard taking a digger and their both swollen.
• Sleep: 5 hours
• Reflections: Am I mad I didn't finish? Not at all. Going in had I known what the course was like I would've never set the expectations I had for this race last night. 40 miles would've taken me 10-12 hours if I had to guess. I got a long run in on in a new place so I'm pretty happy. Course was tough but fun to run on once I wasn't lost anymore. Got a really good run in, won't be too sore and won't miss many if any training days. Time to get ready for another race in the next month or so.

Quick One

Posting before I forget or don't have time to later since I won't be training today.


Tomorrow I'm running the Fells Winter Soltice 40m race in Stoneham, MA. Longest distance I covered a few weeks ago was 30m, 23 of them running during the Ghost Train race. I had 2 runs of 6 or 7 miles in between them and several barefoot runs to top it off. Not a whole lot of training on the running front as I've been really into the weights recently, but that's going to change after this race.

No real goal in mind other than finishing the 40m. It's going to be tempting once I hit 4 loops and people start to call it quits (especially if it's cold) but I'm going into it expecting to finish the whole thing. High tomorrow is mid 40's and low is about 35 so it'll be a cool sunny day. There is a 9 hour time limit, and with my 50m time being less than an hour more than that I think I'll be in good shape to finish under the cutoff as long as I go at my own pace and push towards the end.

Looking forward I have either one or two 50ks in the month of January I'd like to get done (GAC Fat Ass and/or Cape Cod Frozen Fat Ass) and this will be a great run to help improve my endurance for those so I can worry about going faster. I've heard this course is a real ball buster which isn't something I've experienced much of besides some parts of the TARC summer classic loop so hopefully I learn a thing or two tomorrow. I'm currently looking for races in the months of February and March of 2012, so if anyone has any ideas let me know.

Not going to do a really long race report but I expect to post something tomorrow night. I'm bringing my camera so I can snap a few pictures for the blog. Wish me luck!


P.S- let me know what you think of the new banner, I made it myself last night and thought it came out pretty good

Hello Long Lost Followers

PRs and Notable Things This week:

3x220# Bench Press
2x225# Bench Press
134# Power Snatch
206# Power Clean + Jerk
Paused set of bench 3x205#
13 Bar Dips no kip

1:08 Powerline trail run

2 one hour walks

COMMENTS

• General: Sorry for not blogging too much the last couple days. Some nights I went out, some nights I didn't have internet access, some nights I was just lazy. Hit a shit load of PRs this week, most notably on bench press. I should've hit a triple on 225x3 but my spotter helped me lift the bar up (which pissed me off greatly) so I can't count it. Also, I'm really getting into my gymnastics class. I'm going to start going to open gym on Thursday nights to work on some of my ring routines which should help me greatly with upper body strength. I may not start going until January though. Another thing- I'm going to put up a video of me singing the song I wrote a few days ago pretty soon. I had it as a goal for 2011 and I want there to be tangible evidence-- if I lose a few followers over my voice that's cool.
• Nutrition: It was awesome a couple of days, not so hot a few of those days.
• Body: Good. I tried deadlifting last night light but my back didn't want it so I stopped.
• Sleep: Been pretty damn good minus one night where I only slept like 5 hours.
• Reflections: I've got some really big news that I'm thrilled about. I am signed up for the one hundred mile race that I will finish. The Viaduct Trail Marathon in Lanesboro, PA. I inquired on it last year and somehow got on the RD's mailing list. He sent out an early registration to his email list today and I didn't even hesitate. 18 minutes after it opened I was received word that I got a spot and they would see me next summer. This race looks awesome- lots of history and it's in a place I've never been to before. Something about the Ghost Train didn't sit well with me. I wasn't trained for it, it just never felt like it was my turn to get the 100 under my belt. With every bit of power I have over the outcome this race will be my first completed 100m race. Everything about this race feels good to me and it's time to finally face my greatest challenge and spend the next 8 months getting as ready as I can for it while also working on my other goals. Speaking of, I've nearly finalized 2012's goal list and that will be posted in a couple weeks.