Workout – Running and Stuff
Today’s run – 6.8 km/40 min
Week 4: 23.7 km [current week] – [111.5 km for Feb (Total)]
Week 3: 33.0 km
Week 2: 28.9 km
Week 1: 26.1 km
Mood: Great I guess – forgot to make an entry here so….well.
Workout – Running and Stuff
Today’s run – Off Day!
Week 4: 16.9 km [current week] – [104.7 km for Feb (Total)]
Week 3: 33.0 km
Week 2: 28.9 km
Week 1: 26.1 km
Mood: Totally tired – just chilled out
Workout – Running and Stuff
Today’s run – 5.7 km/30 min
Week 4: 16.9 km [current week] – [104.7 km for Feb (Total)]
Week 3: 33.0 km
Week 2: 28.9 km
Week 1: 26.1 km
Mood: Feel ok – but not particularly great. Had quite a few brewskies last night so that may have had something to do with it. Just can’t seem to push to the 6.0. No sweat tho it will come in time.
Workout – Running and Stuff!
Today’s run – 5.7 km/30 min
Week 4: 11.2 km [current week] – [97.0 km for Feb (Total)]
Week 3: 33.0 km
Week 2: 28.9 km
Week 1: 26.1 km
Mood: Feel pretty good today. The push for 6.0 is within reach – just got to push harder. 10 @ 10kpm, 10 @ 11kpm, 10 @ 12kpm.
Workout – Running and Stuff
Today’s run – 5.5 km/30 min
Week 4: 5.5 km [current week] – [91.3 km for Feb (Total)]
Week 3: 33.0 km
Week 2: 28.9 km
Week 1: 26.1 km
Mood: Haven’t slept in like 30 hrs, but had a good run today to start off the final week. This so far has been a very proud month for me. I was able to set me a goal and thus far stuck to it. I have really put on the miles this month. Next month will be high mileage for the first 2 weeks (max 6 miles per run with fast intermitten days) and then intervals – 10min full runs, 2 min sprints drill (10mins) , and 10 min easy run for the last 2 weeks – mix it up.
Workout – Running and Stuff
Today’s run – 5.7 km/30 min
Week 3: 33.0 km [current week] – [91.3 km for Feb (Total)]
Week 2: 28.9 km
Week 1: 26.1 km
Mood: Feel pretty good. It just seems like my first run after my break is requires a bit more push than usual. At any rate today is 3/3 and I am out for a bit – so let me get on with it.
Workout – Running and Stuff
Off day – just taking it easy. Feels a bit weird not go running, but have to give the body a bit of rest; even if it feels forced.
Workout – Running and Stuff
Today’s run – 5.7 km/30 min
Week 3: 27.3 km [current week] – [85.6 km for Feb (Total)]
Week 2: 28.9 km
Week 1: 26.1 km
Mood: In a relatively good mood today. Had a chat with the big fella today. All’s cool in a different kinda way. Pretty frank talk. Had to clear up a few things.
Title: THe Crisis Of Islam
Author: Bernard Lewis
Date: 18-Feb-04
Bernard Lewis examines the historical roots of the frustrations and resentments that dominate the Islamic world today and that are increasingly being expressed in acts of terrorism. He looks at the theological origins of political Islam and tells us what the Islamic doctrine of jihad has meant at different times in history. And he takes us, as only he can, through the rise of militant Islam in Iran, Egypt, and Saudi Arabia, examining the impact of radical Wahabi proselytizing and Saudi oil money on the rest of the Islamic world.
Crisis of Islam ranges widely through 13 centuries of history, but in particular it charts the key events of the 20th century leading up to the bitter and violent confrontations of today. The Second World War, the creation of the state of Israel, the Cold War, the Iranian Revolution, the Soviet defeat in Afghanistan, the Gulf War, and the September 11th attacks on the United States have all shaped Muslim perceptions in important ways.
While hostility toward the West has a long and varied history in the lands of Islam, its current concentration on America is new. So too is the cult of the suicide bomber. Bernard Lewis helps us understand the reasons for the increasingly dogmatic rejection of modernity by many in the Muslim world in favor of a return to a sacred past. Based on his George Polk Award-winning article for The New Yorker, The Crisis of Islam is essential reading for anyone who wants to know what Osama bin Ladin represents and why his murderous message resonates so widely in the Islamic world.
My Thoughts: Really good read. I would highly recommend for an understanding of the history and Islam.
Title: Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them
Author: AL Franken
Date: 18-Feb-04
Al Franken, “one of our savviest satirists” (People), takes on the issues, the politicians, and the pundits in one of the most anticipated books of the year.
Once again, the author of Rush Limbaugh Is a Big Fat Idiot and Other Observations trains his subversive wit directly on the contemporary political scene, leaving the powers-that-be in tatters and his audience in hysterics. Al Franken thrives on being in the opposition, and now that the Republican party controls both the Oval Office and Congress, the gloves are off and the satire is fast and furious.
Franken’s specialty is using his targets’ own words to make comedic and political points. Finding logical inconsistencies, factual errors, and doublespeak wherever he looks, Franken takes on and destroys the myth of liberal bias in the media, hoists the Bush White House on its own rhetorical petard, and punctures the mean-spirited sanctimony of such media darlings as Ann Coulter, Bill O’Reilly, and host of post-Limbaugh talk-radio gasbags. Timely, provocative, unfailingly honest, and always uproarious, Lies is sure to raise hackles and spark hilarity inside the Beltway and from sea to shining sea.
My Thoughts:
Workout – Running and Stuff
Today’s run – 5.2 km/30 min
Week 3: 21.6 km [current week] – [79.9 km for Feb (Total)]
Week 2: 28.9 km
Week 1: 26.1 km
Mood: Now that I have had a bit a time to think over the debriefing, I am slightly turnoff by it. Not one to go on in a fog of naivety, I scheduled another discussion session to clear a few things up.
Workout and Other Things…
Today’s run – 5.5 km/30 min
Week 3: 16.4 km [current week] – [74.7 km for Feb (Total)]
Week 2: 28.9 km
Week 1: 26.1 km
Mood: Only 1600, but feeling pretty good. Need to finishs up my life/financial plan today.
Workout and Other Things…
Today’s run – 5.5 km/30 min
Week 3: 10.9 km [current week] – [69.2 km for Feb (Total)]
Week 2: 28.9 km
Week 1: 26.1 km
Mood: Mello – off night…got a few more and then back to it. Did debrief today – monkey off back…weight off shoulder. It really doesn’t matter now.
Workout – Running
Today’s run – 5.4 km/30 min
Week 3: 5.4 km [current week] – [63.7 km for Feb (Total)]
Week 2: 28.9 km
Week 1: 26.1 km
Mood: Aiiight – need to push thru tonite and get a break coming up….kinda getting a bit used to the grind some. knock on woodrow.
Workout and Other Things…
Today’s run – 5.2 km/30 min
Week 2: 28.9 km [current week] – [58.3 km for Feb (Total)]
Week 1: 26.1 km
Mood: okay – not too much to it. Pick my friggin “C” up today after been raked over the coals.
Workout – Running
Today’s run – 5.2 km/30 min
Week 2: 23.7 km [current week] – [53.1 km for Feb (Total)]
Week 1: 26.1 km
Mood: not too bad day – didn’t do much. refocusing business plan and prepare to push thru this upcoming weekend.
Rest Day and Stuff….
Today is my workout rest day…so far things are going good on schedule.
Went to dinner for Tai’s going away. Really had a good time hanging out with the guys. A bit underdressed for the occassion, but it was a fun time no less.
Tai seemed a bit preoccupied. Seemed as tho he really had either left already or didn’t want to go. I am more inclined to think that it was somewhere in the middle.
Workout – Running
Today’s run – 5.0 km/30 min
Week 2: 18.5 km [current week] – [47.9 km for Feb (Total)]
Week 1: 26.1 km
Mood: pretty good chill day. Good run to clear mind and refocus.
Watched a couple of movies today – “Underground” a dark pardon the pun, story that pits Vampires against Werewolves. I was impress….yeah…pretty good. The other one was pretty weak – “Black Spring Break” – yeah, it was way weak…won’t even go any further.
Title: The Marrigage of Sense and Soul
Author: Ken Wilber
Date: 11-Feb-04
Science and religion have always been considered mutually exclusive concepts, but are they really? Philosopher Ken Wilber shows how we might begin to think about science and religion in ways that allow for their reconciliation, on terms acceptable to both camps. Science is one of the most profound methods humans have devised for devining truth, and religion focuses on discerning meaning. Wilber shows that not only is science compatible with the world’s religions, it is indeed necessary to unite the two. He presents an elegant and accessible program which is breathtaking in its scope – one that cannot fail to change the way you look at your world.
My Thoughts: Really didn’t get this book. Got some glimpses of goodness, but will have to take a closer read to get it fully.
Workout – Running
Today’s run – 5.2 km/30 min
Week 2: 13.5 km [current week] – [42.9 km for Feb (Total)]
Week 1: 26.1 km
Mood: somewhere between pissed off – fed up and very relaxed….
Workout and Other Things…
Today’s run – 5.0 km/30 min
Week 2: 8.3km [current week] – [37.7 km for Feb (Total)]
Week 1: 26.1 km
Comment: Pushed a bit harder, but good run tho
Pretty good day today – only got about 5 hrs sleep, but that’s what happens when I start working out; I tend to get wired with adrenaline, until about the 3rd or so week.
Great feeling so far tho….
Workout – Running
Today’s run – 3.3 km/22 min
Week 2: 3.3 km [current week] – [29.4 km for Feb (Total)]
Week 1: 26.1 km
Mood: Pretty good run today
Workout – Running
Today’s run – 4.8 km/30 min
Week 1: 26.1 [current week] – [26.1 km for Feb (Total)]
Mood: Pretty good run today as well!
Ms Jackson…. if yo Nasty….
Straight up – I am a big fan of Ms J, but that was really….really not cool. I expect that shizzle from the “Queen Bee” ala Little Kim; she can get away with being skanky, that’s within her persona, but Ms J – c’mon we’ve got kids watching.
So here we go again, another “Diva” had to push the friggin envelope. Why do they have to go that route dawg? Couldn’t she just take a tip out of Maraaaiaah’s book. Staankey is not always sexy….notice the qualification. Yeah…yeah…yeah…I am probably protesting too loudly, but fo real tho.
So her stock is gonna drop a bit, it has to. She has a certain role that she fits in as far as the entertainment world is concerned. She definitely shouldn’t try to out do the Christinas and the Britneys, they are of a different – I don’t give a shit generation. They can do whatever they want and still get away with it, besides black folks are a bit more conservative when it comes to certain things.
So Ms J keep doin yo thang gurl, just keep it on the downlow and stay true to yo image – God knows Michael’s got enuff crap going on in the family, we definitely don’t need the controversy.
By the way, the pics posted here are purely artistic effect. It is not meant to titilate, excite, arouse or provoke anyone….aaaight?
Workout – Running
Today’s run – 3.3 km/30 min
Week 1: 21.3 [current week] – [21.3 km for Feb (Total)]
Mood: Pretty good run today!
Let's Rob the Bank – Name a Commission and Get the Hell Out
Workout and Other Things…
Decided to make today a rest day….really thought about it quite a bit. Got to the point of donning the garb to go workout, but curb myself. Really have to take control the feeling – not let the feeling control you, because it also works in reverse as well. Tomorrow should be a 60min run.
The idea is to only have one rest day per week and miss no other day.
Other things – not much really just doing a lot of brain work right now – developing alot of projects mentally, should start putting pen to paper in a bit.
Also brainstorming writing a book… probably should have a clearer layout of the path I want to take in about a month or so.
Workout – Running
Pretty good run today as well – 4.8 km – 30 min/ 18.0 km for Feb
Pretty Good Day…Knock on Wood
So today, day 1 of 2, was pretty neat…really can’t complain. Everything was low key got everything on target list completed….chop!….chop!….chop!
Pretty tired now, let me go get something to eat and hit the rack – doing pretty well with my running. Think I will save and get myself a present if I go the entire month running. Not sure what I will get, but I will think of something.
One more thing – I have not been talking about people in my blog, but I may have to change that. If you know the folks that I know…Gezzam frinking H. Krice, they are the weirdest mother fletchers to walk the earth – I am quite sure they think that of me as well, but who cares.
Workout – Running
Today’s run – 4.8 km/30 min
Week 1: 13.2 km [current week] – [13.2 km for Feb (Total)]
Mood: Pretty good run today as well!