Pshorty's Group-GO NATHAN!!! (Page 28)

I just caught up on a couple days of the thread, it's fun to hear what everyone else is up to! I'll play too, since what I am up to is changing every day :-) I have been the Program Director for a non-profit international adoption agency for the past 2.5 years and actually just stopped doing that about a month ago now, in order to study for the GREs and do some grad school decision making (I took the LSATs and was all ready to go to law school, but with a nonprofit background and underlying desire to keep doing community-oriented work the debt load out of law school might be a bad route to go...). My boyfriend just graduated from architecture grad school this winter and we've been checking out cities we might want to live in. We decided this week that Portland, OR is the place we're headed. So now we're trying to figure out final details of that and have a 2 week trip to Glacier Nat'l Park to do some backpacking planned either right before or after the move.

 So I am sort of doing nothing at the moment I guess- which I HIGHLY recommend as a great reality check for anyone who can swing it. I worked through college and went straight to a full time job and then another one and am now having the time to think about what I want to do next (and learn math- Sesh- I HATE numbers, want to come take the gre's for me? :-) ) and it looks like I'll probably do a public policy masters with a focus on public health rather than law school. But I suppose that could change :-)

I am in PA at the moment and I think there is a little "Indiana's even getting more attention than we did" going on. People are totally loving IN right now! i think i have heard more IN trivia this week than my entire life combined too :-)

RE: everyone in LA is way too skinny for beer- soooo true. took us a bit to figure out why but i quickly realized that once i realized why there aren't any Great breakfast spots.

So does ANYONE like run intervals? 

I did love the ice bath afterwards with a nice litre of....... Gerosteiner Mineral water. 

What'd you think I was gonna say?  Beer?  Ok, I had one of those as well.  What can I say though.  I'm an advertising sucker, and ever since Levi rode with Gerolsteiner, and my general infatuation with all things German, I've taken to the mineral water.  Tasty, tasty stuff.

A beerless, omeletteless society?  Do we need to organize a fundraiser and rescue these people?

pshorty - 2008-05-02 8:44 AM

sesh - 2008-05-01 11:49 PM

So does ANYONE like run intervals? 

Some folks use this an indication of how much slow twitch vs. fast twitch muscle fibers you have. As the theory goes, the better you are at a certain workout, the more you enjoy those types of workouts. If you enjoy doing 200-400m repeats over and over over again, it's an indication that you might have a high concentration of fast twitch muscle fibers. The opposite--if you enjoy doing mile or even 2 mile repeats (but only a few of them) then you probably have more slow twitch muscle fibers. You could also take a biopsy of your leg muscles

What if you don't like both? 

They really weren't that bad.  The last two minutes of the 4th and 5th interval were pretty crappy, but overall it doesn't warrant all the whining I'm doing.

I do think they are helping, though.  My heart rate isn't skyrocketing on my bricks and I'm able to hold a much better pace than I did last year. 

Yeah.  I've got a pretty sweet looking trisuit burn on my back right now.  Sunscreen is a GREAT idea that I never think about, despite being so pale I'm almost transparent.

Well, did some more intervals, Paul.  Yeah, they still aren't THAT fun, but they aren't as bad as they used to be.  Maybe I'm starting to dig them a little.

pshorty - 2008-05-06 7:58 AM

sesh - 2008-05-05 7:51 PM

Yeah.  I've got a pretty sweet looking trisuit burn on my back right now.  Sunscreen is a GREAT idea that I never think about, despite being so pale I'm almost transparent.

Well, did some more intervals, Paul.  Yeah, they still aren't THAT fun, but they aren't as bad as they used to be.  Maybe I'm starting to dig them a little.

Don't overdo it. Keep it at once a year or so and then they are magical!!!

Too late.  Addiction is taking over.  It's bike intervals today!

So Grace.  A marathon huh?

Yeah Grace, I knew you'd be on the marathon track soon. just had a feeling from your race report :-)

I am trying to decide whether to run on this fall or next winter... decisions decisions. If I knew where I'd be living & working in the fall that would help. Though I suppose having the city narrowed down is a start :-)

 25 days from my next 1/2 and have to get some more long runs in.... soon...