Last night was an awesome night. It was senior night at the Comcast Center and my Terps were playing Duke.

I was at home rocking all my Terp gear.




Tweeting with my friends like a crazy person. Best tweet of the night from a friend:
"i feel like im in the dbk newsroom watching all you guys tweet each other"


And the Terps won!!!! Whoooo hooo and now we're tied for first place in the ACC! Video from the Washington Post of kids storming the court.

Maryland fans storm the court from Wash Post Sports on Vimeo.

And then, like any good Maryland fan knows, came the celebration/riot on Rte. 1. The Post got some great pictures and there's a brief summary too.

I would have given my right arm to be back in college last night to experience that again. After the late night phone calls, emails, tweets, waking up this morning sucked.

But I'm going to be riding this high for the rest of the day.

In workout news yesterday, I got in a nice 4.5 miler outside. Everything was going really well until about the four mile mark when my right knee (not the one I've had problems with before) started hurting like crazy. I'm getting quite sick of all of these hip/knee problems. I'm hoping the knee was a fluke thing and that if I keep up my stretching and strengthening stuff that it will go away just like my hip issues.

Last night's workout ended up being a lot of fun, even if it wasn't exactly what my training plan called for.

I had four miles scheduled and was so happy when I cruised through the first one on the treadmill with minimal hip issues, but around mile 1.5 things started to get crappy.

Instead of pushing through it, I paused the treadmill, and hopped on one of the bikes at the gym. I rode really hard trying to keep my heart pumping. I did 6 miles in about 20:15. Bikers out there, how is that for time and distance?

After getting off the bike, I walked backed to the treadmill, saw it was still paused and decided to finish my workout off with an extra 10 minutes of running.

Holy crap, now I know why it's called a brick. My legs felt like lead, but kind of in a good way....yea that's just weird.

Anyway, my whole workout looked like this: 20 minute run, 20 minute bike, 10 minute run, for a total of 3 miles run and 6 miles biked.

A solid Monday of training in the books.


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Yesterday was the first time I've run outside in about two months. I've spent a depressing two months running on treadmills because it was either too dark, too cold or the sidewalks were covered in snow.

Yesterday it was time to fix that. The temps had crept into the 40s and although the wind was blowing like crazy, I laced up my shoes and headed outside.

Oh and it was a rude awakening for my lungs. Hello, cold, crisp winter air, meet my poor lungs, used to breathing stale, warm, gym air.

Also, outside apparently there are these things called hills. Things I used to be conditioned to run up and down. Not so much anymore.

My first run outside was wonderful in so many ways, but a harsh reality check in so many others. I'm counting down the weeks (only two to go!) until we flip the clocks and get more daylight so I can fit in more outside runs during the week and banish the treadmill from my life.

In good news though, my hip hurt like a million times less running outside then it did running on the treadmill. I still treated it to the foam roller afterward though.

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