Matt Youngblut’s Blog

June 26, 2007

Speed Work

Filed under: running — Matt @ 8:56 pm

Today was speed day.  I only ran four sprints, but I think it was helpful.  Prior to that, I ran 3 miles.  The time wasn’t that great, but I was pleased that the 2nd half of the run was slightly faster than the first half (by a couple of seconds).  This shows that I might have a chance of being a consistent runner.  I hope so.  Danny is training hard.  I can tell.

June 25, 2007

I just felt like runnin’.

Filed under: running — Matt @ 10:22 pm

Run Forrest, run!  I decided to run tonight for the first time in (basically) a month.  I had the flu Sunday and this morning, but I know Danny is running and claiming he isn’t.  So I had to.  Whenever I slowed down, I knew that Danny wanted my head to look like his.  And I can’t have that.  The Bix is 7 miles.  I need to probably get up to 15 miles before that to stand a chance to the running that Danny is already doing.  And I need to do speed-work.  I’ve got 5 weeks.   I can do it.

One man’s attempt to control the pet population

Filed under: day-to-day — Matt @ 11:09 am

No, my dogs are already fixed. I’m just trying to control where they go. Like if put them in the pen in the garage (which allows them to go outside via the doggie-door, I don’t expect them to be running around the garage like they were today when I got home.

So I’m on attempt #6 to contain them:

  1. Put up a pen
  2. Tethered pen to wall because they got smart enough to move the pen
  3. Patched corners of door, as Harley discovered how to “chew through” chain-link fence
  4. Bound plywood to door because the patching didn’t work
  5. Used a heavy piece of oak, plus rolls of carpet, bags of sand, and bags of water softener salt because Harley ripped the plywood to shreds
  6. The latest attempt (today): Put up a wrought-iron fence on the outside of the door, tethered by 1/8″ steel cables, because Harley figured out how to move the piece of oak and drag everything into the pen and chew it to shreds.

It now looks like a window in Miami or New York City at the bottom of the door. If this doesn’t work, I’m going to use electric fencing. I’ve been thinking about doing that since attempt #4, but it just seems so inhumane to me.

Blog at WordPress.com.