iThink: Peter Oldroyd, "Fragile" (theme from the trailer to Solaris)
WX at 0900: 73.0 (22.8) DP 73.0 (22.8) BP 29.9 (1012) SSE 3 RH 100
Odometer 1: 71.1mi
Z3.
Average/max heart rate = 155/170
Today was a day of "if I don't go out, I won't do anything else today, so I better run" day. This was a day where I had to choose between lard and burning lard, so I needed to burn lard.
The Ithink today stems also from this video, since I watched my first MLL game in a long, long while (on our TiVo) as well as parts of the UnderArmour All-America Lacrosse Classic, which features the best high school players in the country.
When I was in prep school, my 10th grade math teacher once quipped that "you know lacrosse is a prep school sport when Yale's the number two team in the country" (which was the case in 1987 for a little while). As I was watching, certain schools get mentioned that are fairly familiar names for most lacrosse fans, places like Gilman, Boy's Latin, Fayetteville-Manlius, Ward Melville, Duxbury, West Genesee, Georgetown Prep, and the one that really got my attention, St. Anne's-Belfield.
Hearing Belfield getting mentioned was a particularly fun nod for me as I know the drive from Richmond to Charlottesville well, in no small part becuase of an ongoing friendly rivalry for academic teams between my school (St. Christopher's) and St. Anne's-Belfield (or STAB for short). As an unusual convention, I always called the school as "St. Anne's" when referring to the girls who went there, and "Belfield" for the boys who'd gone there, which recalls their existence prior to the merger of the St. Anne's and Belfield schools in 1975 (I believe)...but all this is trivia somewhat out of the ordinary for a July 4 spent far, far away from Virginia.
And yes, I suppose if you look at the roster, lacrosse is still a niche sport if you look at where people are from and where they went to school.
Oh, and today was a pretty slow run. At least I lifted on Thursday so it's not a total zero sum week.
Splits
SGMT AGGRG SEGMT PERMI AVGPC DIST
1.00 09:01 09:01 09:01 09:01 1.00
1.00 18:02 09:01 09:01 09:01 2.00
1.00 27:17 09:15 09:15 09:06 3.00
1.00 36:49 09:32 09:32 09:12 4.00
1.00 45:43 08:54 08:54 09:09 5.00
0.06 46:14 00:31 08:37 09:08 5.06
Good Grief! STAB may have brought back memories of the good old days, but certainly its worth a mention that the STAB player on the team was Howie Long - son of the NFL great!
ReplyDeleteThis is where I have to caveat that I mark my football, basketball, and baseball annual quotas at 30 minutes a year.
ReplyDeleteI was unashamed to delegate sports trivia on the St Christopher's academic team to someone else...