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U of A

Member Since:

May 16, 2015

Gender:

Male

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Running Accomplishments:

Ran 200 miles in under a week(nov 2019) . Ran 226 miles in under a week twice in 17 days(oct 2023). Ran 250 miles in under a week(mar 2024)

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Miles:This week: 40.00 Month: 571.00 Year: 1787.00
Fly's Lifetime Miles: 215.00
Pegs 36 #8 Lifetime Miles: 451.00
Pegs #9 Lifetime Miles: 322.25
Peg 37 White Lifetime Miles: 289.50
Streak LT Lifetime Miles: 11.50
Peg 37 Navy Lifetime Miles: 494.50
Peg 37 Magenta Lifetime Miles: 508.75
Peg Shields Lifetime Miles: 795.00
Peg Shields 2(orange) Lifetime Miles: 770.00
Total Distance
77.00
Pegarusalem #4 Miles: 69.00Pegaroos Pair 2 Miles: 4.00Nike Vomero 10 Pink Miles: 3.00
Weight: 162.00
Total Distance
5.00

5 treadmill + plyo and sauna after work. wanted to run more but it was raining hard and without wind to push my hair back those 5 miles were completely insufferable. the plyos were really good though.

Pegarusalem #4 Miles: 5.00
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15.00

AM - 3 mile wu, mile going 70, 90 every quarter mile, then about 2k feeling out tempo. i'd say it's around 5:40 pace rn. cd for 9, upper body weights after(no sauna). last faux-workout! 2020 let's get it

PM - 6 easy. felt good.

seeing how my running career, running blog, and pursuing of an engineering degree and neurosurgeon title is a mere front for my true dreams of being a music journalist, i'm posting a top ten albums of the decade list tomorrow. i thought about making one for the best songs of the decade too, but that's even bigger of a headache so instead i'll put my favorite song from the albums in the parenthesis after. i'm posting some albums i absolutely love that didn't make the cut today. i won't act like i had good music taste the entire decade, 11-year old eugene wasn't reading the pazz & jop poll in 2010 or anything. anyway in no order here are 5 albums i love but didn't make the list

                       

lingua ignota - caligula(may failure be your noose); an album that sounds like it should be sang on an empty burning stage in the deepest level of hell. largely inspired by what seems to be an abusive relationship, ignota doesn't ask for pity, instead seemingly embracing the monster she must be in order to receive such brutality from her love. harrowing and completely terrifying.

                       

fka twigs - lp1(numbers); it seemed that bjork's transcendental music was so ahead of the curve it took about 15 years after homogenic for her to spawn spiritual successors. i'd argue twigs did it the best, reaching the full potential of the sound after two EPs on her debut. seductive as it is strange, the mix of experimental R&B sounds 5 years ahead of it's time 5 years after it's release. 

                       

travis scott - rodeo(apple pie); hip-hop was easily the genre of the decade, trap was easily the most popular sub-genre of it, and rodeo is easily the peak of the sound. taking the ATL sound and evolving it's production to make the album an experience rather than a bag of mostly unrelated songs like his contemporaries, cactus jack delivers banger after banger.

                       

a tribe called quest - we got it from here, thank you for your service(we the people...); 18 years after releasing their supposed last album and mere months after the death of member and legend phife dawg, the world recieved their true final album. it stands in the same tier as low end theory and midnight marauders, and i don't think there's higher praise than that.

                       

radiohead - a moon shaped pool(decks dark); arguably the band's saddest album. as anyone who's heard more than THAT song knows, they aren't exactly the feel-good type. abandoning a lot of the synthetic landscapes they created on previous efforts for something softer, some of thom yorke's best(and most heart-wrenching) songwriting appears on here. if i ranked the albums based on my favorite song on it this would probably top my list

Pegarusalem #4 Miles: 15.00
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Total Distance
18.00

AM - 8 mile w/u, 4x200m w/ 200m recovery in 27.9, 27.5, 27.7, 27.3. mile c/d

been a looong time since i ran this fast. about the best starting point i could ask for in terms of speed. 

overall a great year for running. i set new PRs in longest run by 10 miles, highest mileage day by 24 miles, highest mileage week by about 90 miles, highest mileage month by over 160 miles, and broke my yearly mileage PR by over 500 miles too. even though i haven't been as consistent as i'd hoped i'm in a super good place to make 2020 a hell of a year.

PM - 5, then gym, except it was closed, so ran another 3 after airing out an ex-blogger that shall go unnamed for saying some of the of the most pretentious and gross things i've heard this year.

as promised, my top ten albums of the decade:

                       

10.) JPEGmafia - Veteran(Real Nega); it's hard to describe this album, honestly. hilariously violent and aggressive lyrics over some of the weirdest hip-hop beats produced since the money store, the entire album is pure adreneline in the same way L.L. Cool J's "Mama Said Knock You Out" and ODB's "Brooklyn Zoo" are. this album could make a monestary start a mosh pit.

                       

9.) Freddie Gibbs & Madlib - Pinata(sh*tsville); in 2004, rapper MF DOOM and producer Madlib came together to make Madvilliany, the most celebrated underground hip-hop album of all time, and an album i'd argue against any fan of the genre is a top ten hip-hop album. 10 years later, Madlib struck gold again with Gary, Indiana rapper Freddie Gibbs. with a pallette of instrumentals so unique and creative that only Madlib could have made, this album sounds more like the soundtrack to a blaxploitation film than a true-blue hip-hop album, and Gibbs rides every track like it had a metro boomin tag.

                       

8.) Kendrick Lamar - good kid, m.A.A.d city(sing about me, i'm dying of thirst); there's honestly so little i could say about this album that hasn't been said already. one of the best albums in it's genre to come out this decade, and one of the greatest concept albums of all time, the album deserves all the praise it's garnored.

                       

7.) Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy(POWER) - this album is so universally acclaimed i feel as though i need to justify it's placement being so low more than it's need to be on this list. Kanye West is easily my favorite artist of all time. on christmas 2008 i got a speaker for my ipod and proceeded to play his performance of Stronger at the grammys about 30 times in a row. although i personally prefer the jazzy soundscape of late registration, the gaudy and godly instrumentals elevated hip-hop to a place never before reached thanks to the genius of the man who got his start producing classics for Jay-Z. it's only fitting over such lush and extravagant instrumentals he be just as extra, however as i grow older some aspects of the album grow old as well. Runaway is arguably one of his best songs ever, until the 5 minutes of auto-tune riffing after. Blame Game sounds amazing, but the lyrics leave a bitter taste in my mouth the more times i listen. still, one of the best albums from one of the greatest artists of our time, and the grandidose moments like the start of POWER and Nicki's verse on Monster are some of the best things to happen in music this decade.

                       

6.) Tyler, The Creator - IGOR(WHAT'S GOOD); the latter half of this decade saw a resurgence in the sounds of soul music. rather than using the nostalgia to make it's appeal, Tyler instead gives the album an update for the modern age on his 5th studio album. the inspiration taken from innovators before him like Kanye and Pharrell can be found all over this project, and IGOR would stand out as one of either artist's best works.

                       

5.) Death Grips - The Money Store(Hacker); if the dark web were condensed into an album, it would be somewhere in between this album and Veteran. however, there is nothing hilarious about the violence and aggression here. MC Ride portrays someone on this record so off the mark in terms of relatability this album might as well have been recorded by an escapee from death row. the production is some of the oddest-yet-catchiest of the decade, music you can play in the car, but might just crash that car into a government building.

                       

4.) Daughters - You Won't Get What You Want(Daughter); when Kanye was helping produce Jay-Z's Black Album, he said he thought of an album as the soundtrack to a movie rather than just another record. if that's the case here, this is the soundtrack to the most terrifyingly blood-curdling movie you've ever seen. the kind that probably got investigated after to make sure all the gore was actually fake. completely harrowing and utterly ingenious.

                       

3.) Danny Brown - Atrocity Exhibition(When It Rain); the album's title gets it's name from a Joy Division song. although frontman to the legendary and innovative punk-rock band Ian Curtis died soon after the project the song was on was released, surely he'd approve of the namesake. Brown raps every verse like he's on the precipace of a deadly overdose, and the instrumentals he chooses on this album are so insane you might think you're OD-ing right along with him.

                       

2.) Frank Ocean - Blonde(Pink + White); not many people can get Beyonce to sing uncredited background vocals, but Frank's just that good. showing why he was ghost-writing for the likes of Justin Bieber and John Legend long before anyone knew his name, this abstract masterpiece shows everyone's favorite recluse being not just as creative as he can be, but as creative as anyone can be.

                       

1.) Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp A Butterfly(Alright); it feels unfair to label this as hip-hop, or even music, because this isn't an album. it's art. and it's damn good art at that. recruiting some of the best musicians and producers alive to make the best instrumental hip-hop album since Madvilliany and Endtroducing... , the real show comes in kung-fu Kenny's lyrics. one moment he's talking his sh*t, the next he's giving us a list of why he isn't, has never been, and will never be sh*t. he's giving us anthems of survival and moments later telling us he's the biggest hypocrite in 2015. truly a benchmark for hip-hop and music at large.

Pegarusalem #4 Miles: 17.00
Weight: 0.00
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Total Distance
20.00

AM - hilly 8 mile w/u, 4xquarter mile hills w/ equal recovery, c/d for 12.

was gonna do more, but i work later today and didn't get much sleep last night so didn't do too much. spent most of the workout thinking of a cool name for the hill; i settled on "stairway to heaven". good start to the decade. averaged 84 but i think they’re a little longer than my watch says since jogging back down i hit .25 miles about 30m before the start. doesn’t really matter since effort and good form is what this workout is for. that hill is killer

PM - 8 after work.

Pegarusalem #4 Miles: 20.00
Weight: 0.00
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Total Distance
4.00

AM - 4. was planning on shear-willing my way through some k repeats in the rain but i underestimated how hard it has to be raining for half the state to be on flood watch. plus my shift got upped to a double so i was pressed for time. might do a mile pickup on the treadmill after work if wearing my headband makes treadmill running any less insufferable; i'll get in a good lift either way though so it won't be a complete waste of a day for training. hope this stupid rain goes away

Pegaroos Pair 2 Miles: 4.00
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15.00

AM - 3 mile shakeout. got called in yesterday and was dead by the end of the shift so no running. if i get in a solid long run later today i won't get hung up on it.

PM - 12. had an off-and-on side stitch from the start, as soon as i hit around 11.6 it hit hard, the severity level where you can’t even keep your torso straight. if the wind hadn’t been 15 mph i think it would have been 6-minute pace. so ended it there, but got in a good full-body lifting session after. sauna too.

Nike Vomero 10 Pink Miles: 3.00Pegarusalem #4 Miles: 12.00
Weight: 162.00
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Total Distance
77.00
Pegarusalem #4 Miles: 69.00Pegaroos Pair 2 Miles: 4.00Nike Vomero 10 Pink Miles: 3.00
Weight: 162.00
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