Liquid Gold

Footage of the race at Gtown last week...(I'm the guy in the headband.)

I walked out of my room holding a jug of Pure Michigan Maple Syrup, looked each of my roommates in the eyes and said: "If either of you even think about taking any of my Pure Michigan Maple Syrup, I'll **expletives deleted** and then I'll **more expletives deleted**!" Then I walked out of the room.

It was at that point that I knew I had a problem with sugar in liquid form.

It started with my dad being an entomologist. Growing up, there were bees everywhere. I mean EVERYWHERE. Colonies in the backs had swarms of buzzing drones. At yearly intervals there would be a huge silver spinning vat in the house that was used to extract the honey. I was lucky if I didn't step on a dead bee at some point with the stinger still in tact.

But oh that sweet nectar that my Dad got from those bees. While most kids pulled PB&J sandwiches out of their brown paper lunch bags, I ate PB&Honey. Some kids put brown sugar on their maple syrup, I doused my morning breakfast with silky smooth honey.

On top of my love of honey, my high school's mascot was a Fighting Bee. Everywhere I looked, there was a connection to honey. It was awesome.

Now, my love of liquid sugar goes beyond honey and extends to delicious maple syrup. For a while I was on a Safeway Brand butter flavored syrup craze, but I realized that may be detrimental to my health, so I've gone the good for you sugar route (if there is such a thing).

There is somewhat of a point to this nonsensical post about honey on my "running blog". I look at honey as a healing food. One coach (I won't mention names) I know used to tell his runners that whiskey was a healing power: "Constipated? Take a shot of whiskey...Diarrhea? Take a shot of whiskey." That's how I look at honey. So, if you're a runner and feeling sick, have a squirt of honey...if you're a runner and you're feeling awesome, slurp a little honey.

Bees? Beads!? Beeeees!!! Bzzzzzzz.

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I'm running a 1500 this weekend at the Armory. Hopefully after last week's race I'll be ready to go for it. I think it's going to be a pretty good field, although I'm unsure who is in it. I go off at 1:40pm EST and I think ArmoryTrack.com usually has a video feed of the races going, so if you're not in NY you can check it out there. Haven't said it in a while, but....LET'S GO!!

Brasschaat Race Day

Just woke up and about to have some breakfast before departing for Antwerp Central Station in Belgium for the second race of my tour de europa. After a long week of preparing, its nice to finally get ready for race day.

Will have a pretty big breakfast today and then pack some sandwiches and snacks for the road. I race around 18:05 - they do military time over here - that’s around noon for you folks back on the east coast.

Not much else to report really. We went out to dinner last night at a pizza place to make it feel more like a track meet. For Dutch pizza, I was pretty pleased, but its still no Bee-Pizza, that’s for sure.

Short post today...here’s a link to the race:

http://www.acbreak.be/

On the left hand side click on the “FC/International Meeting” button and you’ll be able to find start lists and later on, I presume, results. A bunch of Americans flew 3000 miles to race in a different country. Pretty awesome. Bumbi, my training partner throughout the year, will be there, so i’m pretty pumped about that. Someone to warm up and cool down with is always nice.

Let’s Go!

Bees?

Beads?

oh, bees.

(they were all over at the track last year)