Training Log Archive: bishop22

87 at Toftrees outside of State College. Opened with double-triple before I settled down. Had 3 3-putt bogeys on 9, 10 and 13 and took a 6 on the par-3 15th(?), or I could have had a real nice score.

Postponed the long run until tomorrow so that I could go to Friday's with most of the team and parents, instead of run, between games.

Chelsea's team is 2-3 in the tourney so far. She's playing well - there are a lot of good players down here.

Easy run with Nate between Chelsea's basketball games. Went from our hotel outside of Lewistown, PA, down into town, thru a park and some trails behind the high school, and back up. We ran the last 6.5 minutes uphill in the same amount of time we ran down at the start.

Ran easy with Nate - up La Loma, down to Figueora, over to Annon and back. Then we had to head over to LAX for the trip home (via Buffalo) and a brief night's sleep before we have to head off to Penn State.

Ran a 5K in Lake Forest, CA. Had to leave at about 6am to drive down there, but it gave me a chance to see a college friend that I hadn't seen in about 14 years. He actually beat me by 11 seconds (in college, he would have been about 4-5 minutes behind me).

But, I remain undefeated against Nate, although this time it was a suspect victory - I passed Nate with 250m to go, while he was puking up Pop-Tarts on the median. There have been allegations that I may have doctored the Pop-Tarts - allegations that I must deny.

I blame the slow time partly on the SoCal heat, and partly on my lack of competitive drive. I can't fix the former, but I must fix the latter.

Brief warm up. The warm down was mostly running out to find Chelsea, and back in with her.

I told Chelsea and Nate that they could take the day off before the race tomorrow, so I took the day off, too. Went to see Ocean's 13 instead of running.

Ran with Nate up to the Colorado bridge over the Arroyo, then down Orange Grove to California, back over the Arroyo and a slightly roundabout way back to Huntz's house.

We did this in the late afternoon, with the temp well into the 90s, so it wasn't that much fun. At least the drinking fountain at the small park across the Colorado bridge was working.

Had to stop the sit-ups because they were very uncomfortable in a SoCal-decorated house. I guess I could have gone outside to the well-watered grass.

Had to drive my sister-in-law and family to SFO at 8:30, then had to drive my in-laws to SFO at just past 11, then we hit 1pm Mass and drove to LA, so it was a good day to take a break.