Thriller

. . . Not the run, it was uneventful. But the music! I bought Thriller 25 the 25th anniversary edition of Michael Jackson's Thriller (yes, I bought the CD because I am 45 and that's what I do. I like to have a hard copy). I listened to it on my ipod during today's run. It's such a great album. It brings back great memories, but all the songs stand on their own and are just as great today as they were in 1983 when I would dance to them at the AEPi parties at Indiana University.

My run was 8 miles. I ran outside by the Ohio River while Sarah was at dance rehearsal. Nice and flat. Out four and back four. I reset the Garmin at the turn around to do 8x100 strides for the last two miles with two minutes in between each stride. That stretched it out! Two minutes is an eternity when you don't feel like you need that much time, but as a result, my strides didn't slow down and even got faster. My average pace for the whole 8 miles was about 10:00/m. The strides were in the 8s with one at 7:57 (yeah me!).

Alright, so a faster person might have listened to the entire album and been done with the run, but I had to add on two versions of Smooth Criminal (Alien Ant Farm and Michael Jackson) plus a couple of other songs.

In all, it was a nice run and a good effort.

Tomorrow: 14

MTD (February): 154 (One extra day didn't help my totals at all).

First Run of 2008

Today was a great start to the new year and to week 2 of the training plan. I ran 8.25 miles with 10x100 meter strides. I had a little bit of fun this morning setting up the Garmin to measure the strides. Um, how many tenths of a mile is 100 meters? I settled on .06-.07; can't remember which.

I entered my data on my new running log -- thank you Dave-O. It does everything except calculate the day I ovulate. Also, it rounds up, so maybe I'll hit 1500 in 2008 after all. According to the log, my average pace was 9:53. My avg. HR was 160 which is 81% of max.

This is the coldest day I've run so I dressed warmly. I can't believe I actually contemplated putting an ice cube in my water bottles. By the time I drank the Gatorade Endurance, it was like a slushy margharita. Big dry snow flurries are still coming down, but nothing is sticking.

Bootsylicious

I'm in heaven

With the maven of funk mutation

Clinton's musicians such as Bootsy Collins

Raise expectations to a new intention

Those are actually the lyrics in the song "Genius of Love" which I've chosen as my blog title iver at Hal Higdon's web site. How ironic that 1) I had my photograph taken with Bootsy on Saturday night 2) the song was in the queue when I did my six mile run today, and 3) Flashlight (Parliament Funkadelic) also queued up! Mind you, I was on "shuffle" so I could have had Cecilia Bartolli or John Denver. I guess it's just a funky day!

Speaking of which: 6.2 miles recovery including six 100 meter strides the last mile. Last week's high mileage has taken a heavy toll and I'm feeling very tired this week. I may skip tomorrow's run after my strength workout. My achilles is starting to make it's presence known again. Two days off should take care of it.

Let's end with the rap:

Stepping in a rhythm to a Kurtis Blow

Who needs to think when your feet just go

With a hiditihi and a hipitiho

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Who needs to think when your feet just go ...Bohannon Bohannon Bohannon Bohannon

James Brown, James Brown

James Brown, James Brown