christ mark, i forgot you probably own a heart-rate monitor.

anyhow, i'm back to the college gym mike boyle(he's done the bruins, bu, olympics, and maybe 30-40 nhl dudes are there summers)-learned about it through kids playing puck. lots of powerlifting stuff, plyo's, weird shit like 55lb kettleballs off-balance and just an hour or less of stuff that for someone who might run 70feet at the longest but a lot of drop steps, 5-yard bursts it's ideal. i have bikes as cardio, but going to uncomfortable squatting 315x3 right to 405x4 before worrying about form and just using 275 and 315 for flat bench a few months later and a bit of creative supplementation to recover within a week of a workout it's ideal.

the nhl dudes have to do the aerodyne bikes, i just ride and dive. the boston marathon's hilarious, the good runners are twice as fast as a trained qualifier-ARE YOU TELLING ME THIS IS FUCKING COMPETITIVE AND SPORTING?

fuck no, it's all about showing you're dedicated and trained and simply completed a race.

annapurnna(sic) is badass to just complete. a race where bitches stop bleeding and kenyans under 140 are endomorphic enough to win for decades is a joke.

if you want to jerk off in front of friends and family, coming in at 4:34 may as well be doing so. but you "finished" go cry and collect your space blanket, some endurance hunter from a tribe into weird shit just crossed that line two hours before you and got his blanket.

the tour de france takes dedication and EPO too, nobody gets to do it in twice the time as contador did it in-they're dropped and out of the peleton in 12-hours if the next morning doesn't seem encouraging.

listen, cosmos ndeti and i don't run together, i don't show up at the base of k2 and assume sherpas and bottles are good for getting little kids and the elderly up and down like everest now has been made into. the pakastani ones and k2 don't get thousands of dumbasses like me, and they kill the super-elite over a 1/3 of the time. i've hiked plenty but don't need help if the weather goes bad, i can self-arrest on ice, blah blah. but the only use i'd have for kenyans if i was a white chick would be figuring out altitude, footstrike, etc. that elite endurance athletes do very differently than us. otherwise you're just jerking off you didn't die doing it.

yeah, the greek who did the marathon-distance first died right aferwards, sure that's what you want to be doing?

i want to throw balls at the back half of the field and keep yelling "catch". those who can't hit and catch, run and row. wrestlers are basically never draft prospects in baseball-same states care about both. never understood the "endure" if you hit no.8 in babe ruth as a means of gaining respect back from some afternoon i'd pitch fast and inside without mixing anything up then someone misplayed two loopy drives and handed me doubles instead. that's wrestling kid who'd communed with his bestial side well-enough i'd rather avoid him after a few years, but fucked-up ears and training won't help you get laid in college either, maybe in iowa but they're different and wrong altogether. i love the bonds on roids era-human achievement. nobody'd pitch to him and he'd still be hitting 370 with unheard-of-slugging while blowing away intentional walk records yearly. put a ball near the plate, he was doing something violent with it, pitchers win more than hitters, bonds for a few years flipped the paradigm. that's better than being masai and living at 8000feet, it's not just being so good that it makes sense to pitch around you, PITCHING to him was a losing proposition, period. load em or walk one home, if he made contact with a borderline strike he's lining it somewhere hard and guys are coming home.