Easy 50 min. 1 hr in the gym afterward. Seems I have some mild IT which has crept up out of nowhere. Wtf. Suppose I have to now get serious with the stretching and rolling. Also, i'm going to head to the massage table asap. Good times!

2010 T&F Championships

Note to self:

Source - http://www.usatf.org/events/2010/USAOutdoorTFChampionships/

Marathon Training with Team Rogue for CIM

I'll be training the next several months with Team Rogue for a Dec marathon (most likely CIM).  The team officially started 2 weeks ago, though, this is my first week.  Being my first day, I decided to run the 10 mile route since I knew that distance was easily doable.  Didn't wear a watch, so I can't report any of those stats.  I can, however, report that the heat/humidity did not affect me nearly as much. Either my body has adapted or the humidity/dew point has decreased.  Don't know which, who knows, maybe both.

Weekend Running

Saturday - I was too lazy to wake up early and run.  Once I got up and around, I headed to the track around 1030.  I did a short warm-up, lots of form running, and 6x 150m (50 accel, 50 hard, 50 coast).  Called it a day after that.

Sunday - Easy 10 w/ Kamran and Asia.  We grabbed 4 strides at AHS toward the end of the run.  I wrapped it up w/ an hour in the gym.  My hammies are hella-tight, and I need to get on my job as it pertains to stretching and rolling em.

Hurtin in the Humidity

I met Kamrasia at the UT intramural fields today to do a few mile repeats on the soft grass.  We knocked out a 3.5 mile warm-up and then got to the good stuff.  The plan was to do 3 sets, just trying continue a little turnover work.  Ran them in 612, 555, and 601.  Those sum bitches were tough.  My legs were ok for the most part, but the humidity/dew point made the cardio piece shitty (to put it nicely).  Afterward, none of us wanted to run the warm-up route as a cool down.   I did however want to take advantage of the soft and nearly perfect grass one more time, so I decided to get in a little barefoot cool down.  I ran for about 13 min.  Decent day I suppose.

The Dell Streak is pretty cool

About 3.5 weeks ago I ran in the Congress Ave Mile in Austin, TX.  The first 1000 people to register were to receive a Dell beta test product.  That item (which turned out to be a Dell Streak) arrived last Fri.  During the next 4 weeks I am to use the product and provide feedback via surveys.  After the test period concludes, I get to keep the product.  Hmm.

What is the Dell Streak?  I'm not a super duper smart phone techster, but it appears to be a hybrid smart phone/tablet.  Perfect timing, because I had finally decided to acquire such a device (after purposefully resisting the last few years). Obviously, my curiosity has been piqued.

So I have sorta played around w/ the device some over the last few days and have determined:

• The 5in screen is bad ass
• AT&T network device
• Android 1.6 OS (downer cuz I understand there is a newer version)
• Android 1.6 does not work w/ Flash  :-(
• The newer Android OS is supposed to be avail later in the year
• 5 megapixel camera (lots of settings I haven't messed w/ yet)
• Can take pics on display side too
• Display side pics aren't very clear (but I have not messed w/ the settings)
• my existing ATT sim card works in this thing (very nice)
• Device/OS is super snappy (responds very quickly)
• Small 2 GB HD (but has 16 GB SD card)
• The phone works fine, but is a little big
• It still fits in ur pockets (unless you wear tight/skinny jeans, which means you have "other issues":)
• Did I mention it is lightning fast?

That's about all I can think of now.  I may have more once I have used the device more.  Two thumbs up for the time being.

 Additional images (fortunately mine is all black):  http://www.engadget.com/photos/dell-slate-secret-hands-on/2593089#2593097

Time to change it up

Track season is over for me I'm 95% sure.  Nothing is wrong, but I do want to be sure to quit while I'm ahead.  At the meet on Fri I only ran the 200M (in 26 sec).  Not a real good performance.  My hammies locked up with about 40m to go, and I faded pretty bad after that.  I know, I was not in shape or prepared to sprint (should have known better).  No harm, no foul.

Here's how the meet went:  3000m (only 3 people showed up to run, so I scratched that one), 200m (see above), and then I waited around about 1.5 hours for the 1500.  With two more sprint events to go after the wait, I decided to call it a night.  Just sorta lost my motivation w/ all the waiting.  I would really like to run a 1500, but at this meet, that would mean sticking around until after 9pm.  So I suppose that race will have to wait until another time.

All that said, the Summer Twilight Track Series in Austin is a great event for the youth.  It is great to see all those kids and teenagers out there having fun, competing, and learning to run/race.  Cool deal.  There are some grownups that run too, but that is not the focus of the meet.  It's all about the kids.

Next up, base training begins for the fall racing season, and gasp, a December marathon.  I am going to take it real slow though.  Ain't in no rush, and there is plenty of time.  That's all I got for now.