A Heartbreaking Post of Staggering Genius

I've been cranking out the miles this week, which has given me lots of time to think about ground-breaking, mind-blowing, paradigm-shoving blog material.  Unfortunately those ideas sound much better halfway through a 20 mile run, when an insufficient amount of oxygen is squeaking its way into my brain.  I wonder if there are any long term effects of this...

...here are some things I might blog about if I can formulate a cogent few paragraphs

• crossfit/minimalism/ etc. fads in running and how they apply to elites/sort-of-elites
• "just doing this race as a workout" and the fury that statement kindles in my soul
• one/two workouts per day and how it affects recovery - no actual science allowed
• supplementary work to build strength - for economy and/or injury avoidance
• food

There were probably others that crossed my mind, but these are things I think about a lot while scooting down the bike paths in the usually grey Twin Cities morning.  I'd like to blog more about things that are discussable issues or at least something that just isn't me talking about a race I'm doing or whining about not running fast enough.

In that vein:

I'm going over to U of M tonight to run the Snowshoe Open indoor meet.  I haven't raced on the little oval in just over five years, so I decided to go over there and see what I've got for mile and a 3k.  I've been much faster over most distances in the last year, but I haven't run anything shorter than 5k, other than the Mag Mile, which doesn't really count.  I'm not going to Gate River this year, plane tickets were prohibitively expensive, and it's very unlikely I'll have a chance to win the price of my flight.  The next hurdle is to find an outdoor meet or two in which I can run a fast 10k to try to sneak in to the Olympic track trials.  Crazier things have happened.