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Colfax Marathon warm up

Published April 17th, 2008 in quad, Greenland Trail, Tigers, baseball, Colfax Marathon | 3 Comments »

This weekend I am going to run in the Greenland Trail 50K.  Not that I would run 50K though.  There’s actually a 25K and an 8 Mile run.  I’m going to do the 25K which is about 16 miles, on trail, with altitude.  I was thinking of wearing a back pack full of rocks just for fun also.   I was going to run this as a race, but my left quad (I love saying quad.  Quad, quad, quad) has been hurting the last couple of days, so if it’s not better by Saturday, I’m going to take it a bit easy.  My marathon is 4 weeks away, so I don’t want to be doing anything stupid.  But then again, I’ve never been one to be real smrt  smart.

How do you like my baseball prediction so far?  2 ways you can look at it.  The Tigers suck and they are in last, or the Tigers are just getting warmed up and they are only 4 1/2 games back of first.  I’ll go with the latter.

I never did do my 6 word memoir.  I’m such a slacker and I apologize for my slackification.  I was thinking of this;                                                                                      

                                 “I used to be wild and crazy, now I’m just mild and lazy”

I think that’s slightly more than 6, so I’m still working on it.

I know weather is crazy all over the country, but this is ridiculous.  This past Tuesday in Denver, it was 85 degrees!  Then on Wednesday, it was 35 and snowing.  It’s global warming mixed in with the new ice age.

Play Ball!

Published April 2nd, 2008 in tagged, baseball | 5 Comments »

Baseball season has started and it’s time for the totally clueless fan to say how great his team is.  Just about every team has a shot to win 100 games and win the World Series.  But baseball is so hard to pick because there are so many games and you can tell when a team just “phones it in” and doesn’t play hard.  They just played an extra inning game the night before a Sunday afternoon game, and they don’t care.  But they did that in the old days too, and the players I grew up watching, never phoned it in.  I believe the biggest change in the game today is the money that the players make.  Why play hard when you get paid an obscene amount of money?  The players of yesteryear played hard to get to the playoffs because of the extra money they could make.  Nowadays, that’s pocket change for them.  Having said that, here’s my fearless for sure prediction for the World Series.  It’s going to be the Detroit Tigers versus the Chicago Cubs.

On a completely different topic, I was “tagged” by Kristen of the blog Run Faster to write a six word memoir.  Here are the rules;

  1. Write your own six word memoir
  2. Post it on your blog and include a visual illustration if you want
  3. Link to the person that tagged you in your post, and to the original post if possible so we can track it as it travels across the blogosphere
  4. Tag at least five more blogs with links; and
  5. Leave a comment on the tagged blogs with an invitation to play

I haven’t done anything with this yet because I haven’t really taken the time to think about it.  I’ll get to it soon I hope.