Run to Win

Today is the 1 year anniversary of the completion of the RIT Coast to Coast Run by some former teammates of mine. I was jealous at the time that I could not get the time off from work, and wish that I had been able to be a part of it. I am looking forward to buying the book about the run that should be published early next year.
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There are different rules that should be followed when swimming in a public pool. These rules can be a little different depending upon how many other people are sharing your lane with you, and most of these can usually be negotatiated simply by asking the others in your lane whether they would mind doing something different. These rules will not necessarily be enforced by anybody, but they make it much easier for everybody to get their workouts in and to keep everybody moving and safe.
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Imagine that you are weight lifting, and all of a sudden something goes numb and you are not really expecting that. Hopefully, it does not happen when you have heavy weights above you; in my case, it happened as I was hanging suspended in the air.
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I would hate to be Jay Feeley right now. The New York Giants tied up the game late in the fourth quarter with a two point conversion, but Feeley failed to successfully kick three consecutive field goals, instead letting Josh Brown kick the game winning field goal for the Seattle Seahawks.
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The Paul Bunyan Marathon is being revived in Bangor, Maine this coming Summer. It originally was run from 1974 through 1984, and will be Maine’s only Summer marathon. There are now four marathons in Maine next year.

• The Sugarloaf Marathon (May 2006)
• The Paul Bunyan Marathon (July 16, 2006)
• The Maine Marathon (October 01, 2006)
• The Mount Desert Island Marathon (October 16, 2006)

Active.com has an article about taking a break after your Fall marathon.

Training for a marathon is a long, arduous process that involves 18 weeks of gradually tearing down an athlete’s body and rebuilding it. Once a runner hits the starting line, he or she has developed a highly tuned aerobic and energy distribution machine. That’s the good news. The bad news is, it’s wrapped inside an abused and overworked skeletal and muscular system. It’s the equivalent of driving a car 200,000 miles, dropping a high-performance engine in it and trying to race the Indianapolis 500. The engine should hold up fine, but chances are, the chassis is going to have a few worn-out or broken parts before it’s over.

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The Lions lost the game versus Atlanta today, but Dan Orlovsky got to play in his second game of his career and was 5 of 11 for 43 yards. This is better than Joey Harrington who was 6 of 13 for 61 yards but threw for an interception. I hope that he has a good career; I enjoyed watching him lead the UConn team over the last few years.

Happy Thanksgiving. I may or may not post over the next few days; I had planned to post ahead but I spent the time I would have been doing that laying in bed feeling sorry for myself after getting a migraine. As such, enjoy your holiday (for you American folks anyway) and check back next week.