I'm back on the road to recovery. Did a bit of a 4 mile up tempo. It was exactly 4 miles. I kicked my pace up a notch every 5 minutes. Started out 7.30 pace prolly. got to the 2 mile point in 14 minutes exactly. So i averaged 7 minute pace for the first 2 miles. I finished back in 26.20. So i think i dipped it down close to 5.30 pace for the last 5 minutes.

At least i know i can still move my legs that fast. It's comforting.

Today..woke up pretty late...noonish..ha. Watched Bridge on the River Kwai in 2 segments. Good film...one of the classics. I enjoyed it. Alec guinness did a great job of acting. Played golf. Nathan and I played to a stale mate. I sucked it up on the last hole and let him tie me at 47. I was up by 2 strokes going in to the last hole. PISS

Othere than that...Cubbies...they won 3-0. they've been struggling but i really think they're going to overcome it and make the playoffs. Of course...i think like that when they finish 65-97 and finish 35 games out of 1st place too. But really...this year they're going to do it. Made some great acquistions to overcome injuries and ineptitude.

Anyway..i'm peacin ...later

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Ohh..IIIIII ...uhhhh.....i'm still alive..yeaaaah....IIIII..OHHHHH..I"m still alive.

Sorry for the prolonged abscence....but i'm still alive.

yesterday...I ran...yes..tha'ts right. The last 2 weeks i haven't ran consistently. I ran like a total of 4 or 5 times. not good. So we're going to forget about those 2 weeks. And concentrate on this week.

Last night, I ran 4 miles..well about. Felt really good...Kicked home at the end. There was a funeral across the street when i got home...so i kind of view it as the me of the last 2 weeks dying...or something like that.

Watched an old war movie yesterday...A Bridge Too far. pretty good..it should have been better though with all of the talent invested in that movie. I mean this movie was stacked with stars. Star-studded even.

Music of late-Jack Johnson-2nd album On and On....favorite songs i think- Cookie Jar and Cocoon
Not much else going on lately. I'll keep you posted.

I'm back from the woods....wow...it was a great trip..but it's good to be home also.

Last week...i headed into michigan on thursday. Highlights...Played frisbee on the beach of lake superior, ran in a race with my brother for the first time and only beat him by 3 minutes..ha...more on the race later....and playing with my niece julia, and nephew jakob, the coolest kids in the state of minnesota.

Race- Eh...it went ok. The race started on a beach...great view, bad running. About a mile of the race overall was ran in sand. That kinda sucked. My legs hurt like they never had before. I just tried to focus on a stead pace and run along to the music in my head. I came across teh line at about 41 minutes...My brother and just under 44. It was a good experience. I'd go back up there any day.

Mileage for last week-37 miles
Mileage for summer-256.7...suck

yesterday...5.2 miles..today... .5 miles....i went out and felt like shit..complete...horseshit.

Oh well...gotta move on. Tomorrow's a new day...let's see what it has in store. Night

Mileage for last week-34 miles.
Mileage for summer- 219.7...prolly not gonna make 500

This week...I did 6 miles on Monday, and 6 miles today....

Last night i got a little drunk and made some emotional phone calls....my apologies.

Ok, Tonight My brother and I played a tennis match. In our minds this is like the finals of the U.S Open. Like Agassi and Roddick. I had a little bit of a winning streak on him so i have the mental advantage going in to the match. We only had time to play one set but we made it a good one. I won the toss and elected him to serve. I started off with a break of serve. Solid game. No mistakes. I followed that up with a strong hold of serve to run off to a 2-love lead. I was feeling good, because my serve hasn't always been dependable. My lead quickly was erased as he Held, broke my serve, and emphatically held again 40-0. 3 consecutive games to take a 3-2 lead. The tide was swinging his way and it looked as if he was going to run away with the match. I had fallen to 0-40 on my serve. Things did not look too bright. But i fought back to deuce. There ended up being several deuces as we kept exchanging blows. I won the game on an ace to tie the match at 3-3. After that we exchanged 3 breaks each to end up at 6-6 and heading into a tiebreak. I dumped a return in the net on the first point and i thought to myself, "here we go". But i came back on my serve to go up 2-1. I then had one mini break on his serve to go up 3-2 heading back to my serve. I then won both points on my serve again somehow to get out to a 5-2 lead. And once again i had another mini break to get to match point at 6-2. He then fired an angry serve for an ace to get 6-3. But my serve had been there for me during the tiebreak as i held another one and finished the match at 7-3. U.S open champion....Jeremy Grootens.

Other than that, went to the zoo today. Dolphins are cool.

later

Yo, i'm in Minnesota

Updates are going to be less frequent, but there will be a couple until i get back in quincy on next monday.

I'll try and get an update this week before i go to upper peninsula to get my summer mileage updated.

Running-I did a sixer yesterday and did a 9.5 mile trail run today with my bro.

Some good tunes-Red Hot Chili Peppers-Dosed, Barry White-Can't get enough of your love baby(Barrie), Jethro Tull-Cheap Day Return....and Aqualung, Van Morrison-Sweet Thing

For now i'm gonna go whoop my brother in a tennis match.

adios

This will be my final blog in quincy until like the 14th or 15th of july i believe. It's not gonna be much either cuz i gotta get goin.

I saw gangs of new york the other night. Solid movie. I'd see it again.

Yesterday...spent the day with barrie for the most part, sucks that i have to leave. But not much i can do about that. This was a planned trip.

Yesterday's workout-6.0 miles in 43.32...not bad i suppose. Stretched out after taht.

I also had one final hardee's hurrah....soo good.

well...for now.....Candybars!

been a long time since i rocked and rolled.

K...So i did about 8 miles on sunday. So mileage for the week-27.5 miles...baaah.

Mileage for the summer so far-185.7 miles. Damn..might not make 500.

Didn't run on monday...just didnt' feel like it...the desire wasn't there. But i feel rejuvenated now. This week will be good.
Yesterday i did 6. And that brings me to today's workout.

6.0 miles in 44.13...kinda slow..but it was like swimming...so humid.
Stretched out really well afterwards.

Worked from 10.30-2 today...well i was supposed to work at 10.30 but i got there at about 5 til 11 cuz my alarm punked out on me. Piece of shit. Work sucked cuz the cooks are lazy bastards. They let me leave on a delivery at 5 after nooon....when the delivery was supposed to be there by noon. And it was far away so i ended up gettin there about 20 after...Those guys were pissed off. I just tried to say it wasn't my fault, cuz it wasn't. Damn cooks. Ate subway after work...i'm starting to eat health...ier. Then...not much else today.

i'm out for now...gonna watch gangs of new york...with my barrie

later yall