Oh I don't care, i'm just rambling about pointless shit because i'm putting off running outside because it hurts to move. I'm telling myself i'm digesting lunch.

I hurt my rib coughing I guess. I've had bronchitis for a few weeks. Or if it's not a hurt rib then I guess the bronchitis turned into pneumonia. I don't feel sick anymore. It just hurts to make sudden movements.

 

You must work in a rather large building.

 

Besides, in 20 years we'll all have gps devices implanted in our heads and eric will have enabled bio-gps devices that will automatically log your every movement.

 

Date:  1/15/2030

Time:  4:00am

Route:  Bedroom to Bathroom out & back

Distance:  0.00379 miles

Duration:  0:02:45  Pace:  726 m/m

Notes:  Ah, shit!  Gotta piss.  What time is it?  Shit!  All right.  Ow!  Fuck!  Who moved that chair?  Goddamn it!  Shit.  Where's that switch?  Fuck that's bright!  Ah, there we go.  Why can't I sleep through the night without having to take a piss?  Couldn't be all that beer.  Probably just getting older.  Shit.

 

Date:  1/19/2030

Time:  9:14 pm

Route:  Sex loop

Distance:  0.000126 miles

Duration:  0:01:23  Pace:  10979 m/m

Notes:  Hey, what's she doing?  Oh!  Yeah!  That's what I'm talkin' bout!  Alllll riiiiiiight!  Gotta remember to check that out later, might be a new pr.

 Needs HR data.

Doesn't count as a PR unless you stay under MAFF.

Wasn't there a thread in the GSP about logging trips to the bathroom?  Nobby even participated...

I just had a nice logging trip to the bathroom thank you very much.

 How is 24 the double of 14? 

 Go outside and  run 14 miles in -20, and after that, you won't ask questions like this.

 

I don't count random walking distance, just hiking type miles that is part of my training.  *shrug*  The majority will be running. Besides, now that it's double digits, I don't have time to walk many of the miles anyway.  I work 45 hours a week, I coach, and I have my info-publishing business that I need to keep running on top of running all the miles and promoting the challenge.

Walk To Win - don't take offense, I am still impressed.  Some people run marathons, some people Gallo-walk them.  Horses for courses.

(assume insertion of illegal emoticon winking at you to demonstrate that I am only joking)

If this were part of the challenge it should have been disclosed prior to our voting on how far you'd get.  Runners don't typically log walking mileage as part of "training".  You can do the challenge either way but it's two different animals.  I used to talk 2-3 miles/day 5 days/wk as part of my commute, it would have been nice padding on triple digit weeks but it's not recorded.  If walking counts why not wear a pedometer and log everything?

Walking??  I consider this a fail already then given what the challenge was originally posted as.

If this were part of the challenge it should have been disclosed prior to our voting on how far you'd get.  Runners don't typically log walking mileage as part of "training".  You can do the challenge either way but it's two different animals.  I used to talk 2-3 miles/day 5 days/wk as part of my commute, it would have been nice padding on triple digit weeks but it's not recorded.  If walking counts why not wear a pedometer and log everything?

If I walk for 26 miles 385 yards, I'll still be tired and sore the next day, probably more so than had I run it.  It takes a lot longer.  Some of the athletes I coach do a fair amount of walking as part of their training.  If I were to ignore that walking when helping them schedule their workouts then I would be doing them a disservice and I'd increase their risk of getting injured.

Walking was allowed in the original challenge, walking is allowed during races, walking is going to be allowed during this challenge too.  If a bit under 3 miles of walking and a bit over 3 miles of snowshoeing out of (so far) 85 miles is that offensive, then I can't help that.  I imagine that it will be an even smaller percentage going forward since I will have much larger mileage requirements, and I don't have time to walk that much anyway.  If I need to, though, I will.

Besides, where do you draw the line?  I ran about 7 miles tonight with my wife, should those not count because it was at a slower pace than I might have run by myself, or the pace that I wound up running when I abandoned her to run with some other folks who started later?

Just got done putting together today's video update...

You can't really tell what's going on, but between me looking away from the camera at one point, the camera bouncing away from me at another, and the lights that were shining on my face going away for a few seconds near the end, the dog really did a number on us.  He managed to jump into all 3 of our crotches in an effort to get us to run a bit further.  He should have come out for the whole 2 hours with me...that might have wore him out.

Oh, and whether any of you care about the walking or not, I am giving away free stuff on the website, which is always good.  I just finalized the sponsor for this week's contest and I have next week's all lined up.  I probably won't have a chance to get the contest up until tomorrow morning for this week, though, since I got the details right before leaving work and don't think I'll have time tonight to put everything together.