Zach Seifts

New glasses!

Zach Seifts — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 18:28:39 +0000

Yep, after breaking the old pair, I guess it’s time. Plus the beard is coming in nicely.

Running is hard when you have things to do

Zach Seifts — Mon, 19 May 2008 23:29:13 +0000

Lately I’ve been completely inundated with things that I need to do. Not only am I going to school in the fall, there’s a full time job, freelancing, tests I need to take, and a ton of other things I do, my time is pretty much taken up. Yet I’ve been trying, yesterday I went up to the Reedy Creak Nature Preserve and did some trail running. That’s been kind of my go to exercise lately. I’m also planning on getting into mountain biking in the near future. There are a couple of bikes I’m looking at. But I really feel bad about not running, I really enjoy it and I think I’ve lost quite a bit of my endourance.

I think I need a race to get me in the mood, and there is a series coming up that I might try to run. Run For Your Life is putting on one of there greenway series. I ran two out of the three they had during the winter, and they weren’t that bad. These are night races coming up and I really need to start getting ready for it. I’d like to go for a quick run tomorrow night but my yoga class is going to keep me from doing that. Wednesday I’ll hit up the Mallard Creek Greenway and get a few miles down.

Wow, I’ve been lazy about this.

Zach Seifts — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 19:41:42 +0000

Okay, so for the past few weeks things have been a bit complicated. I’ve had several projects come up, started a part time job at a coffee shop, saw a couple great bands, and had to rethink my marathon training schedule. I actually had to end it quite early. I don’t feel bad about it, Appalachian is having there open house this on the same day of the marathon. I’m looking froward to that drive Saturday morning at about 6:00 AM or so.

But I’m still running, even though for the past 2 weeks the weather has been completely against me. It’s been raining and cold, but the weather has finally turned around. I should have ran this week, but for some odd reason Charlotte was doing a spraying for some type of worms that infect trees or something. I wasn’t too keen on the idea of running with an aircraft flying above me spraying organic pesticides raining down on me. Yeah, that would make me feel good about the run.

Some Stats:

Weight: 180.2 lbs (this morning)

Les Claypool - Live at the Neighborhood Theatre

Zach Seifts — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 01:15:07 +0000

Week 2: Running in the rain is a perk.

Zach Seifts — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 23:55:04 +0000

I ran the mallard creek greenway in the rain again. A little over 3 miles, I’m not for sure this time, my nike+ thing slipped up in my sock and stopped working about half way through the run. So it only thinks I did a 2.10 mile run instead of a little over 3. I don’t mind, it was a nice run. But the rain, along with the temperature being around 40F, wasn’t too bad. The freezing rain was a fair bit annoying, but the run was very nice.

My new shoes are really great. I got the Saucony Omni Progrid 6. I’ve put about 12 miles on them so far and there great. My hip hasn’t been sore, I had some initial blisters but they didn’t bother me today. There actually pretty much gone. I’m really looking forward to the next few weeks with these shoes, I’m fairly optimistic about them.

Some stats for this week:

Distance: 8.06 miles
Average Pace: 10′40″ per mile
Weight: 188.2 lbs

Live at Applegate

Zach Seifts — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 19:17:14 +0000

Every weekend me and a bunch of my musically gifted friends get together and make some music. I’m in the process of setting up a podcast, but for the moment this is what we’ve got going on.

http://zachseifts.com/music/feb-1-2008/