Training for the Carlsbad Half-Marathon is proving to be more difficult than first anticipated. With the sun coming up later, waking up early to run is a chore. So much easier to curl up in bed and catch an extra 50 minutes of sleep...
Oh Girl plays a show in a week and another show in three weeks. And we have our first feature article coming out next Thursday in the OC Weekly. But I'm not as excited as I as 2 weeks ago because...
I have tunnel vision. And work is smack dab in the middle of that tunnel right now. But it helps to have creative releases and distractions so...
It's good that I was able to trade my Mesa Boogie Nomad 100 for an amp that I'll actually use: the Marshall DSL401. A nice 40 watter that I'll probably use as the dirty channel to my Fender Hot Rod Deluxe's clean channel. I also got a Morley ABY pedal, so I am stoked...
Deadpan works so much better...
Chase turns one next month. Chase turns one next month. Sorry. Had to write it twice... think of it as a literary blog post double take...
Yeah. These type of posts should proliferate. My voice is stream of consciousness. Nice to meet you, honest self-evaluation. Where have you been all my life???
Showing posts with label carlsbad. Show all posts
Showing posts with label carlsbad. Show all posts
Sunday, October 17, 2010
Saturday, September 25, 2010
Hello? Blog? It's me, Glynn...
Ah... an obscure Judy Blume reference. This is going to be a good post...
I haven't blogged in a 43 days. What a shame...
Cliff's notes RECAP (bullet style)!!!
- Our wedding is 183 days away!!!
- Chase is 10 months and 14 days old and is almost walking...
- I'm running a lot now. I've decided to run in Carlsbad in January, but I need to choose either the full or the half marathon. I'm leaning towards the half only because...
- Oh Girl is starting to hit its stride. We're playing shows regularly (well, once a month, which is regularly enough). We're FINALLY heading into the studio. We're having fun and taking steps and keeping it loose but also, strangely, progressing more quickly than any other band with which I've played. The harder you try to hold on, the more quickly it slips away... so we're learning to let go with this one.
That's pretty much been my life in the last month and a half.
And now I can sleep tonight without feeling the guilt of having not posted on my blog in a long time...
Schizo wedding-baby-running-recording posts will continue to proliferate more frequently from now on...
I haven't blogged in a 43 days. What a shame...
Cliff's notes RECAP (bullet style)!!!
- Our wedding is 183 days away!!!
- Chase is 10 months and 14 days old and is almost walking...
- I'm running a lot now. I've decided to run in Carlsbad in January, but I need to choose either the full or the half marathon. I'm leaning towards the half only because...
- Oh Girl is starting to hit its stride. We're playing shows regularly (well, once a month, which is regularly enough). We're FINALLY heading into the studio. We're having fun and taking steps and keeping it loose but also, strangely, progressing more quickly than any other band with which I've played. The harder you try to hold on, the more quickly it slips away... so we're learning to let go with this one.
That's pretty much been my life in the last month and a half.
And now I can sleep tonight without feeling the guilt of having not posted on my blog in a long time...
Schizo wedding-baby-running-recording posts will continue to proliferate more frequently from now on...
Monday, July 5, 2010
Rest Days in Life
Sooooooo...
I'm thinking about signing up for the Carlsbad Marathon. It's on Sunday, January 23rd, which gives me just over 6 months to train. I've got 2 months of base fitness training (a necessity considering I'm in the worst shape of my life), then 4 months of marathon specific training.
In reading up on training for a marathon, rest days often arise as an important topic. "You want to make sure you reach the starting line healthy...", "Skip a run workout, but don't EVER skip a rest day..." It makes you wonder about the importance of rest days not just during marathon training, but during everyday normal life.
How often do we feel burned out? As if we've just hit a dead end? Overwhelmed by everything? In this day and age, I'm guessing these feelings arise more often than not. Deadlines, kids, wives, husbands, traffic, co-workers, bosses... plenty of sources of stress.
Sure there are the weekends; those are rest days, right? Well, there are chores like cleaning, laundry, yard work...
What's the age old Monday morning exchange?
"How was your weekend?"
"Too short..."
What's the point of all this you ask? Maybe there is no point. Maybe I'm just trying to find out why we spend so much time trying to get ahead, fill the bank account, buy the car, watch the TV show, keep up with the Joneses and less time trying to actually improve our lives.
Funny, really...
The days I spend training for the Carlsbad Marathon...
Those are my "life rest days"...
I'm thinking about signing up for the Carlsbad Marathon. It's on Sunday, January 23rd, which gives me just over 6 months to train. I've got 2 months of base fitness training (a necessity considering I'm in the worst shape of my life), then 4 months of marathon specific training.
In reading up on training for a marathon, rest days often arise as an important topic. "You want to make sure you reach the starting line healthy...", "Skip a run workout, but don't EVER skip a rest day..." It makes you wonder about the importance of rest days not just during marathon training, but during everyday normal life.
How often do we feel burned out? As if we've just hit a dead end? Overwhelmed by everything? In this day and age, I'm guessing these feelings arise more often than not. Deadlines, kids, wives, husbands, traffic, co-workers, bosses... plenty of sources of stress.
Sure there are the weekends; those are rest days, right? Well, there are chores like cleaning, laundry, yard work...
What's the age old Monday morning exchange?
"How was your weekend?"
"Too short..."
What's the point of all this you ask? Maybe there is no point. Maybe I'm just trying to find out why we spend so much time trying to get ahead, fill the bank account, buy the car, watch the TV show, keep up with the Joneses and less time trying to actually improve our lives.
Funny, really...
The days I spend training for the Carlsbad Marathon...
Those are my "life rest days"...
Wednesday, June 30, 2010
Run Log #1
Tuesday, June 29, 2010, 21:30
Soundtrack- Battles
10 mins of easy jogging. Getting back into the swing of things. Building a base before starting a 4 month marathon training program.
GOAL: Carlsbad Marathon on Sunday, January 23, 2011.
lyrics:
warm up
cool down
push through
look around
and see
everything
left, right
take a breath
keep track
of the mess
inside
your head
run fast
run slow
get off your ass and go
Soundtrack- Battles
10 mins of easy jogging. Getting back into the swing of things. Building a base before starting a 4 month marathon training program.
GOAL: Carlsbad Marathon on Sunday, January 23, 2011.
lyrics:
warm up
cool down
push through
look around
and see
everything
left, right
take a breath
keep track
of the mess
inside
your head
run fast
run slow
get off your ass and go
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