This Running Life

-Gordon runs from lightning
-He interviews Rich, the founder of Gowagon.com and Shared Vision Track Club (sharedvisiontrackclub.org)
-He picks up his kids at school without other moms yelling at him
-Gets voice mails from Veganrunningmom and Trilogy Running

Music courtesy of PodSafe Music Network

I’ve used Hammer gels before, but have only purchased them from a running store. I’m running out of my Clif Shots, so I thought I’d try some hammer stuff for a change.

They usually send out some samples of their other products, this much I knew. But I didn’t know how much stuff they send. Here’s the list:

Product Usage Manual – Red
Book – Endurance Athlete’s Guide
Whey Unflavored (1 Smp)
Magnet
Hammer Gel Apple-Cinnamon (1 Srv)
Hammer Gel Raspberry (1 Srv)
Hammer Gel Unflavored (1 Srv)
Endurolyte Samples (4 Cap)
HEED Lemon-Lime (1 Srv)
Recoverite Strawberry (1 Srv)
Hammer Bar Almond/Raisin
Hammer BALM (1/4 Oz)

Nice job, Hammer.

-Interview with owner of Freedom Sports in Panama City, Fl (myfreedomsports.com)
-Gordon tries to lure Pearl Izumi into letting him wear-test their shoes (motion control 11.5)
-He does some tunnel shout-outs in an effort to steal listeners from Trilogy Running (trilogyrunning.com)

I mentioned this in the podcast, but I forgot my Oakleys when I ran the early morning bridge/hill intervals. So I had to wear my wife’s girl glasses. Here is photo evidence that I shouldn’t wear them any more.

Here are a few pics from our spring break on the Florida Gulf Coast. It was college spring break as well, but we tried not to let the drunken chants of some college students dampen our fun. I ran a lot (in fact, I had one of my best running weeks in a long time), found a brand new running store (which will be the subject of a future podcast episode) and spent some quality time with the family. I also bought some cool “world beers” form world market.

No spring break is complete without spending 20 dollars in tokens to win 2 dollars worth of trinkets

Nothing says fun like burying your brother in the sand.

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Nuff said

Spring break is finally here and like most college-affiliated people, I am at the beach. Kind of ironic, really, I spend all my time surrounded by college kids and when I get some time off I head to a place where I am surrounded by college kids. The good thing is that this week is kind of early in spring break season and the condo is not overcrowded and most of the kids have been fairly well-behaved. Plus our condo is surrounded by full-time occupants, so I hear no music or partying at night.

Had a great 8 mile run today. I follow a side road across the road from the condo. With the Garmin it is very easy to set out and run until time to turn around and head back to home. I was scheduled to run 7, but I lost track of my location and had to run closer to 8 miles to get back. That’s okay. I cut back my long run last week so I needed to make up some miles. Being at rhe Gulf fof Mexico, there is no elevation, so my hill work on Wednesday will be on the big new bridge that spans the bay (I uploaded a video on runcast.tv last december when I ran the sme bridge: here’s the link: http://www.runcast.tv/video/hathaway-bridge-run-florida).

Since I’m off work for a week I plan to nap a lot more than usual, which is never.

Episode 13 of the podcast is ready for download.