Well the time has come again for another blog, however, instead of writing this from my normal locale which is upstairs at the ZAP office right in front of Frank and behind Nick (in a spot that I hi-jacked from Jess) I am sitting in my hotel room in sunshiney Tallahassee, FL, which is pretty tubular.

This is my second experience with training in Tallahassee and I must say it is one of the greatest pleasures of the ZAP Fitness Elite Athlete training agenda. We arrived here a couple weeks ago and, well despite some dreary days at the start (including a day with Biblical flooding that drown my poor Sebring out for a couple days), the weather has been perfect, which is certainly a welcome relief from my typical holiday training which takes place in Michgain (snow,snow, snow,snow) and then Seattle (rain, rain, rain, rain). So, we have all been able to get settled in and have been focused on some high mileage intense base workouts heading into our track seasons which have, for me personally, gone strikingly better than my workouts last year at this time.

It is a simple life that we live here and the typical day generally goes something like this:

• 7:45 - Wake up eat a Power Bar
• 8:15 - Leave for the run
• 12:00 - Lunch
• 3:00 - Nap
• 4:30 - Run again
• 6:30 - Dinner
• 7:30 - 11pm - Play Guitar Hero

and on top of all that:

• 7:45 am - 11:00pm - Listen to Jankowski talk about being a Champion

So, like i said... simple. I don't think we have to worry much about anyone confusing the life of a  long distance runner with that of a rock star, but we all love what we do and wouldn't have it any other way.

So the new website is up and running, which is an infinitely awesome improvement over our old text based nightmare. Hopefully it will provide everyone with a little clearer insight into what we do here.

Anyway, along with the website, most things have been going pretty well around here. I seem to have run into a little snag with some tight hamstring attachments and a messed up hip. It started during a track workout about a week ago, I must have been putting quite a bit more weight on my left leg as I rounded the turns and threw something off inside my hip area. I'm really thinking its just some of that muscle soreness that comes from a track workout and leaves with some rest. So, as of now, I am trying to avoid ripping anything too fast, and really pounding the rehab to try and get this thing race ready for my next 5k in two weeks.

In other recent developments, Halo has been going well. Our senior intern Ryan Vanhoy has really shaking things up with his arrival and has been giving me a run for my money. Although, lately, Burg and Thomas have left the shells of their former newb-ness and have really shaped up to be pretty good players in their own right. We are all anticipating the arrival of Nick Polk (my former teammate at GVSU and a pretty cool dude) who brings not only his striking good looks, but also an Xbox 360 which has us all pretty excited.