Post-Race

by Ryan on May 2, 2011

Well some good and some bad from the weekend. The good was I set a 7 second PR from 6 years ago (only 6 more years till 28:35), and I ran a smart race in a good position the whole time. The bad was just the last 4-5 laps where I let the pack put 10-20 seconds on me after running a perfect race for me up to that point it was disappointing for them to pull away from me at the end.

After the race I had in my mind that I was going to I was going to go to In-N-Out burger and get a double double animal style (the 3×3 would have been too much). I didn’t look up any before the race and figured I could just drive around and find one. Well after driving all over Palo Alto passing 3 Jack in the Box, 2 McDonald’s, a Taco Hell, and many other restaurants it just did not want me to find it. It felt like Harold and Kumar go to White Castle, without the drugs and cheetah, and me wanting to go to In-N-Out Burger. I knew my stomach was not going to accept anything else so I kept searching only to come up empty. After 30 mins of driving being 12:30 am and my stomach rumbling, I settled on a Jack in the Box which was terrible. Today I have a plan, I mapped it out on the way to the airport for lunch this afternoon, and I will not be denied.

Up next is the Dick’s Sporting Goods Pittsburgh Half Marathon in 2 weeks on May 15th where I will be running to defend my title from last year.

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Payton Jordan Invite

by Ryan on May 1, 2011

Tonight I will be competing in the 10k at the Payton Jordan Invite. I am in the second heat of two going off at 10:30 West Coast time. My training has been going well and now that school is done for the semester I will be able to give some more regular updates.

In other news my favorite band of all time The Beastie Boys are coming out with a new album, The Hot Sauce Committee Part 2, you can listen to the whole streaming album here. I think this album is great and they released a 30 minute video to go with the album with some of the music in it.

I will post an update later tonight of the race. Flotrack will be there so if anyone on the east coast is still up at 1:30am check out the live coverage.

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Sham wow phase

March 24, 2011

As I sit on the bus for our 14 hour bus trip down to t-town Alabama I have been thinking about my past month of training. With the exception of the race in jacksonville I have been really happy with all my workouts. While you always want to bring your best game to a US [...]

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Some good and some bad

March 12, 2011

Todays race was not my best. I didn’t run the time I was looking to, I got beat by a lot guys I shouldn’t have and just not a good day overall. One good thing that came out of this race was some motivation. Not that I didn’t have any motivation before the race but [...]

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It’s been awhile but busy

March 8, 2011

So I haven’t really kept up my end of the bargain of posting twice a week on here. But one of my vows for lent is to get 2 posts a week up. In my time off of blogs has been spent training and just being back in school.
This past weekend I took a trip [...]

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Pacing workout at the Meyo Invite

February 4, 2011

Tonight I will be pacing the first two miles of the 5k at the Meyo Invitational at the University of Notre Dame. Flotrack will be there covering the races so you should be able to tune into the streaming live coverage and see me out front. As far as I am aware right now I [...]

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“That’s an excuse and we don’t make them”

January 28, 2011

This is an often used quote by Steeler coach Mike Tomlin and one of my favorites. This weekend I was originally planning on running in the US half marathon championships, then I was sick over the Christmas holiday and my training wasn’t where I wanted it to be. But that is an excuse and I [...]

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The whip has been cracked

January 25, 2011

So after a long lay off of really updating anything, I have made the commitment to start updating twice a week. The last 3 months have been pretty low key with not really racing that much. My last race was US Club Cross Country Championships, I ended up finishing 14th and helped my Hanson-Brooks [...]

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Cross Country

November 30, 2010

This past weekend before Thanksgiving I got to relive the past. I got to go back and watch the Mideast Meet of Champions for cross-country 10 years after I had ran in the 2000 edition. It was weird showing up to the course 10 years later still knowing where the mile mark is and where [...]

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Whats going on

October 9, 2010

So I really have to get better at this and start making more time to fit a short blog in every week or so. I have been really busy lately with starting school back again at Western Michigan graduate biological sciences program, work, and running. Where I am at running wise, I did my favorite [...]

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