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Jiggy-Z

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  1. Wrong year, Joey Sweetwater. The answer you are looking for is 1986.
  2. ..and if I remember correctly, that was the one part of the book that was a descent read.
  3. I read LOTR back in college while I was procrastinating doing real work on my major. I tended to read really fast but without much comprehension other than the main plot line. For example, if somebody was going on about the history of this family or that, I would just breeze right over it, to say nothing of the pages and pages of song and poetry that I just skipped altogether. Somewhere during Book1, I must have skimmed a little too quickly when they were going over Sauruman's involvement and I got him and Sauron confused, so I had to go back and catch up. I never understood why Tolkien made their names so alike. Fast forward to when the first movie came out and all I could remember about the books was the ending. So I went to see it and enjoyed it and promptly went back and reread the trilogy. It was so much more clear the second time thanks to the movie. Every few years I end up reading the whole thing all over again. The Hobbit was a much easier read and not due strictly to volume, and it had a much warmer and homier feel to it. The Hobbit movies kind of sucked, but they did give a lot of clarity to the players and locations. The Silmarilion was a really tough read and I have no desire to go back and do it again until after watching some of this Amazon series.
  4. I'm sure they did. Just look under "Meat" or "Mr Loaf".
  5. Is there a box for moxie?
  6. Who has time to care about 50K when there are dead hookers all over the place?
  7. More update: Started with nasal mask and above issues. Tried the Phillips mask that Mo recommended and it was almost impossible to adjust so that I would not be leaking air all night, plus not so great sleep. Finally got full face mask and while not a miracle, it is checking most of the boxes. Sleep quality on my smart watch has jumped from highs of around 75% sleep quality maybe only once a week to highs of around 84% 3-4 times per week. I was also able to ditch my MAD with the full mask. Events per hour have jumped to about 2-4/hr, but I don't even notice.
  8. Cowboys games. Too soon?
  9. Another sick thought:
  10. Just binged the whole show over the MLK weekend. I even took a look at the reddit forum. I was a huge fan of Lost back in the day and thus far am impressed by the originality and characters.
  11. Not only all of of that , but Texas, in general, was floundering from the early 80's economic collapse in real estate, oil, banking, and tech. The whole state was sagging with empty buildings, abandoned properties, and just a whole lot of nothing going on economics wise. Much like the Longhorns, at the time, the Cowboys were living off of past glories. I actually credit both Jimmy and Jerry for putting together those championship teams. Dallas was able to get a shit load of players through Walker trade and draft deals. They also took advantage of the lack of salary cap. Jimmy was not some kind of football genius as evidenced by his Miami tenure and we already know about Jerry's shortcomings. In addition, J & J just got real lucky on some things too. Drafting Steve Walsh #1 in the supplemental draft was a huge mistake but accidentally worked out for them when they no longer had the #1 pick and had to take E. Smith #13 or something. Drafting Russell Maryland #1 was not the best thing either. But Jimmy sure did get a lot out of his players, many of which were drafted or otherwise acquired under Landry.
  12. Do you have any idea the overhead required to cut the ribbons on shopping malls?
  13. Tackle the person with the football and the alternative lifestyle
  14. I don't think so on the Pegasus. This was back in 1999, so the memory is a little fuzzy, but I stayed away from the Pegasus line even though I was a Nike guy. I always hated the colors (too much white) and the shoe just looked slow and like "dad" shoes. I always picked out shoes that looked fast but also looked like they were sturdy too. I preferred dark colors with a splash of some kind of day glow color. I also never went for the expensive higher end shoes-upper middle was my max as far as price went. Even though at my peak I only ran about 30 miles a week, I went through shoes really quickly since so much of my work was on the track or hills, plus I was pretty large, at least compared to the guys I was training with who were all about 150 while I was between 165-170. What I would give to weigh that again.
  15. One week on the Jiggy-Z super salad, OMAD, walking, no alcohol diet and I have ....gained .6 lbs. Birthday weekend did me in. How many calories can there be in a 22oz rib eye?
  16. For inspirational purposes only. I loved those shoes though.
  17. City of Bee Cave. Watch your ass heading down that hill on 71 toward Barton Creek going into Bee Cave. And fuck the city of Bee Cave in general.
  18. I went back and pulled this up, just in case the Surl forgot our hero's vitals. The good news is that to be at pretty much optimal training weight you only need to drop about 10lbs. If you take this halfway seriously, I think you can break the 1:00 mark.
  19. All kidding aside, I'm going to go ahead and say spikes are completely unnecessary for this race. I will say though that Air Max's are not the best option either, at least as you approach more 400 specific training. In time the Air Max's will begin to wear out, and at that time should be replaced with something between a minimalist running shoe and a full cushy heel shoe. Pretty middle of the road type of shoe that is light...and for you, you should race in the shoe that you trained in just for familiarity. Case in point: Above I mentioned that I had a timed 400 at :58 seconds in my early 30's at the beginning of my mile training. I did another timed 400 about 1 week before the race and did it in :49 seconds while wearing just a pair of Nike Air Bowerman(inexpensive middle of the road shoe) series training shoes(and some shorts), that I ended up purchasing one day because I somehow forgot my other running shoes. I trained in the 200 as well with rep times of 23-24 seconds and can honestly say I have never worn spikes in my life. Also never even came close to getting injured.
  20. I used to work at that Louie's on the Lake. The mid 80's crash did them in. Louie was building condos and some kind of destination venue next to the old restaurant as well as investing in a place on Grand Cayman when the music stopped. I mostly worked the buffet line on and off from 1983 to 1985. Good money back then at $6.00/hr. Me and my fellow buffet boys ate good back then. We stole shrimp, prime rib, lobster tails, snow crab, you name it. We took a lot it home, but sometimes we would arrange for after work parties up in Westlake hills. There were a lot of mansions under construction that had been abandoned and we just made ourselves at home. We would build bonfires and someone would bring the beer and the chicks and we would have a feast up there. My brother and I always worked the Sunday brunch. We would go to mass at 7am at St Austin's downtown and then head to work. Once there we proceeded to forget everything we heard at church. We would spike our orange juice with Champaign and let the good times roll. Lot of Frat formals were there too. There was so much ass that walked into that place, it was unreal. I even worked a couple of runway fashion shows. I was just a lowly buffet kid in high school, but every now and then I would venture over to the bar area after work was over and see the management and waitstaff pounding cocktails and doing blow. So many stories. We had these two cooks and one was Lebanese and the other was from someplace that hated the Lebanese people. I walked back into the kitchen to get some more food for the line and found those two wrestling on the floor going at each other with meat cleavers. My employment ended there when they bounced my payroll check.
  21. That is not bad at all, given no prior training, and the fact that you have 8 months to do this. The track can be kind of intimidating because there are strict times, you can see the finish line that never seems to get there as fast as you want, wind is always a factor, the curves zap your momentum etc. Once you get your couple of months in with jogging with your dog, spend some time on the track. This familiarity will pay big dividends, even if you are just jogging. Don't be afraid of this distance. When I was training for the mile back in my early 30's, I was deathly afraid of the track. I started running 8 sets of 1:15 quarters with a quarter of walking in between and was absolutely gassed doing that only once a week. After about a month, I was still gassed but I noticed, I was no longer running those 400s at 1:15 but at 1:07-1:10. Then about at that same time, my Tuesday running group decided to to do timed 400's kind of like a race, and I ran my 400 at :58 and it didn't even feel like I was breathing hard. From that point on, I no longer feared the track, but looked forward to track work outs, because I saw the positives in it: Which are: 1. You can run at close to your maximum without having to worry about saving it for later. 2. You can take as much rest as you need before the next go. 3. You will actually get faster during the workout. 4. You can scale up or down to the 800 or 200 very easily. 4 It is a quick run and you can adjust for any tactical failures in subsequent reps. 5. You actually get better at that distance very quickly. Training for the 400 should be really fun. In fact, I wish more people would make resolutions to run faster and better rather than, say, train for the 10K or marathon.
  22. Cat in suit reading newspaper: "I should join a gang."
  23. Yeah, I was really bad about stretching afterward. It always took me a really long time to warm up, too. This quest of yours reminds me of a Youtube video I saw where this guy in his 20's wanted to train and run a 5:00 minute mile with something like 6-8 weeks of training. He started off at with a mile time of 7:48, and of course I knew how this video was going to end right then and there. He ended up at at about 6:40 after his training. For reference, I did something similar at age 32. I was running everyday and did a timed mile 5:48. Probably not my best, but pretty close. So i decided to train for the mile and as luck would have it, the Congress Avenue Mile was 3 months away. I ran 6 days a week and 3 of those work outs were on the track and brutal. I broke 5min about 10 days before the race, but I started a full two minutes faster than this guy and trained twice as long. i guess we tend to overestimate our abilities and underestimate the difficulties of our chosen quest.
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