i’m watching the live feed of the nyc marathon. nbc is really trying to make the marathon a tv-friendly sport. it isn’t. and al trautwig (my least-favorite commentator now that john tesh retired? is dead?). they’re cutting it like it was an mtv video. the olympic footage was so much smoother, limited to overhead and side shots. the olympics also have the benefit of separate men’s and women’s races, so they didn’t have to do this lame split-screen shit. also, for the olympics, there were fewer than seven people commenting at one time. they could take a lesson from the tour de france about what it is to comment over a longish event — 1 or 2 guys in the booth, one of them older than george burns and both of them talking about the drinking they’re going to do after the race.

i ran 70 miles this week, and i’m not sure if i’m undertraining for a marathon i have no plans to run or overtraining for a half-marathon that i’m doing in five weeks. so yeah, the quantity of miles is too many and the quality miles too few. it maybe seems like a stupid move, but i am so 100% addicted to long miles right now that i’m powerless against it until the mileage taper starts in a week. this week: fewer total miles, more faster miles. 7ish per day instead of 14ish.

and nbc, stop it with the lame music that is only tangentially related to running. the eagles? jesus, dude. that sucks.

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