It's Been Too Long

That's what I should say (post title) to Thuy every time I see her (but I don't because I'm a jerk).


Anyways, got back from a week away from lovely (being sarcastic) Connecticut to spend the week in Portland galavanting, boozing and all around bumming around.


I must admit going home always throws me off. Food wise it actually started off great. Curry was a good recovery food, and Bun Bo with some extracurricular joint chewing filled my bone stock quota. Then there was some awesome liver and cheese action happening during a picnic. After that, it was all down hill. Most of the blame goes to the heavy boozing.


Anyways, over last week I did a 14.5 mile run, a 5 mile run with cousin Bobby, 2 miles worth of 800m's with the bros and some good ole' street racing! I lost terribly but made it up with a glorious impromptu 400m relay with some guys and gals.


Back to it. Yesterday I went for a run in the morning (4 miles) and then swam 2500m at night. I followed it up with a quick gym workout session and tried jumping on the bike trainer (terrible, I will not be using one...ever...again). Total workout time: 2 hours.


Today I went for an hour long bike ride followed by 8 mile run. Total workout time: 2 hours.


I'm not going to list my stats because...it'll make me sad. I've slowed down a huge amount. In fact, I ran the 14.5 faster than my previous two short runs. My hammies are extremely tight and I'm having a hard time loosening them up.


I'll just jump into some fun and general stuff. Here's my new breakfast!

I call it, "I don't know how to make an omelet so leave me alone." It has Italian sausage, 2 slices of bacon, 2 eggs, vermont cheddar cheeeeeeese, and baby spinach. It's good, and it allows me to eat more than just a sandwich. Oh the biscuits are the usual sprouted grain business. I think I've explained all the reasons why I eat all the crap in there so I'll leave it out. I'm fortunate enough to like spinach, high in a lot of stuff...just look it up.


Now to my sugar search. I found it! Hammer makes stuff w/ straight up malto! I tried some Hammer Heed gel today and liked it a lot...except the packaging was horrendous. It's okay though because they sell a bottle I can just dump into a water bottle or something. I spent about 10 minutes reading the back of all the gel packets at REI while Thuy was spying on me. She said my actions were a candidate for her breaking up with me. I took her seriously so we left immediately.


Oh, I've been pretty content with just sticking food and gels in my compression shorts while riding. It's probably the most ghetto method I've seen but...again I'm sure others have done it too.


Anyways, I plan to try the mess out of Hammer to compare it to Clif. Clif tends to use brown rice syrup which I believe is high in malto but I sometimes think they try to be a little to..."unprocessed." I figure at this point, I'd rather go w/ stripped down sugars and added minerals like salt and blah blah blah. Anyways, we'll see which works out better.