crackberry entry

When you’re used to touch typing it’s hard to look to find the keys.

back to weight

152 lbs on the scale when waking up.
My left wrist is a bit tweaked and twingey. On the outside portion whenever I try to move the wrist laterally back and forth. I’ll need to be careful with it, a wrist injury can mess up with being able to do various types of lifting and [...]

getting back

I weighed 149 lbs this morning.
Last night, while the chili was simmering, I did a workout to get my head wrapped back around the idea of it. My body had felt wrecked some yesterday morning, then felt better as the day progressed. I chose to use Dan John’s rapid ascent program that uses power cleans, [...]

I am too deeply flawed

Maybe that’s it. Maybe I’m just too fucked up at a basic level of psychology and emotional makeup. All aspiration and hope is a lie. I don’t know. I just don’t know.
I fucked up really bad today.
But there is one thing I can do well. I can probably hate myself more than any [...]

the measuring hill

So I got that hill about a half mile from me and I’ve been running it all last month and this month so far. I did some totaling.
Last month, 15 running ascents, an average pace of around 11:30 minutes per mile. 23 running descents, an average pace of around 9:20 minutes per mile.
So far this [...]

unexpected train station platform

So last Friday, after the weeks of emails and phone calls, it was the day to finally meet this woman. I woke up before my alarm went off, excited that there was a little less than 9 hours to go until I would see her.
I sent a good morning message and not much longer [...]

march update2

I haven’t updated on anything here for a while.
I closed out 4 weeks of harder training efforts with strength bias yesterday by running a crappy 5 miles on crappy tired legs. These next couple of weeks I’m not going to do any squatting or deadlifting, just going to stretch my legs out with some [...]

the baseball gods decide to piss on Philadelphia

I profoundly lack belief in any sorts of deities, but the events of last night are bizarre.
All day yesterday I had to deal with the sense of dread that if there were a way for the Phillies to lose, to be denied victory, it would happen.   And now here we exist in this limbo of [...]

28 years or so ago

I was 10 years old in 1980 when the Phillies won their one World Series victory.  I loved that win as a kid would love it.  Baseball was my game as a young kid and the Phillies started getting good in the late 70s, I had little sense of the history of the team, you [...]

Apparently, no one told Tim McCarver that Cole Hamels has a good change up

Notes from bizarro broadcasting announcing stuff of last night’s game –
Tim McCarver analyzes a pitch by Cole Hamels, thinks it might be a cutter/cut fastball.  It seems that McCarver does not know Cole Hamels has one of the best change ups baseball has ever seen.
In the 8th inning, McCarver goes on to declare that Ryan [...]