Will Run For Food

Remember how I said when I was stopping this blog that I was working on something else? Well I wasn't lying. In fact, this new endeavor is bigger, better, and badder than runLBP...it has videos, pictures, blog posts, and a second writer!

Will Run For Food

My good friend Mike and I have resurrected "Will Run For Food" and are taking the series to new heights. Check out http://wrff.tumblr.com and you can see the video of our pilot episode "Episode 1-New York City" plus a whole lot more!

"Woody"

Remember when I said I wasn't going to write any more blog's for this one? Well, I lied.

And I came back just in time to report some of the lowest of lows!

The US Road Mile was about as disasterous a race as I could have hoped for. I felt good for about a 1/2 mile, and then the wheels came off all at once. It was an odd experience, it just kind of all of a sudden happened. People started passing me, I tried to respond, and I couldn't get my legs to move. I dropped out a little after the 3/4 mark. I obviously tried to forget the experience as soon as possible, but much easier said than done. And amazingly, the hits kept coming.

The Red Wings lost to the fricken Sharks. I'm not even that big of a hockey fan, but playoff hockey is intense and fun to watch, and anyone who reads this blog knows how much I love all things Detroit. So I watched the game, got even more upset, and then slept for about 4 hours before my flight back to Michigan.

And it got even worse from there. I woke up with a sore foot. The left foot. The same one that has had 2 stress fractures in a 3 year period. It didn't hurt in the fourth metatarsal, but it still hurt.

So I got home to Bath and tried to nap away my sorrows. Obviously, this wouldn't be easy either. So I begrudgingly got in my Dad's homemade truck (see above picture) to drive up to the local YMCA and get in a swim.

I usually don't mind driving "Woody", and his may or may not be true, but I'm pretty sure the radio was stuck on a station playing Creed. So even the driving was ruined.

Then, as I'm driving over I-69 on an overpass, the hood of that damn truck flies up with a POP! and obscures any point of view I could have ever imagined having. After a brief freakout moment, I pulled the car over, shut him down, got out and slammed the hood shut and latched it with a few four-letter words spewing from my mouth.

I got back in the car and just started laughing. Couldn't get much worse than that...

And it really hasn't. I do not have a stress fracture (thankfully!) and my foot is starting to feel better. I'm skipping the great meet that is taking place at Occidental this weekend (gonna be a stacked 15!) to get my training back and going and get my head on straight.

To put it bluntly, I've struggled with my first year and a half as a pro, but I'm going to figure some things out and get ready for some nice racing come June, July and August. As always, it's go time, and I need to "Let's Go!"

Something New

It's been a while. I haven't had much to post. I had a very poor race at Princeton in the 800 and then an alright race at Penn in the mile. Things are perking up training wise, and I'm pretty excited about the US Road Mile on May 12th in Minneapolis and then a fast 1500 in L.A. on the 22nd.

BUT, while I haven't been doing much blogging, I have been working on something...

I am officially announcing the end of runLBP. Don't get me wrong, writing a post each week is actually one of my more enjoyable moments. I love to write, and forcing myself to do so each week is something I enjoy doing. There were some weeks where I wouldn't want to, but because I had this blog going, I had to do it. (And yeah, I realized a long time ago that this is a BLOG, even though I hate that word and prefer web-journal (which may sound just as lame).) But, most things come to an end, and with runLBP, it is about that time.

I started up my blog with the hopes that it would make me more marketable and help me get a shoe contract. Wishful thinking, I know, but it does make some sense. What I realized since pretty early on is that you simply have to run fast to get a shoe contract. So instead of writing the blog to get noticed, I was writing a blog for family and friends to stay in touch with my running.

Thankfully, you'll still be able to do that. Because, as I said earlier, I have been working on something else.

It is not ready yet, but it is going to be more than just runLBP. As I mentioned earlier, I love writing, but the project I'm working on is going to allow me to write about more than just running. Hopefully I'll post even more than I do currently because the blog is going to be all encompassing in regards to my likes and dislikes rather than just about running.

So stay tuned on here, because I will link to the new guy as soon as it's up and running.

It has been a pleasure to write runLBP posts for all this time (116 posts!), and for the 25 of you who read every week, thank you so very much...but onto something new now, hopefully you check out what's to come...