Manny Being Mustache.

It's official, the Dodgers landed the big prize in this year's trade deadline craziness.  Manny Ramirez is the new left fielder in LA!  All we had to give up was a major league ready 3rd baseman in Andy LaRoche and a low-A pitcher that I've never heard of.  If we were going to rent a player for the last couple months of the season this is certainly the way to do it.  I predict the Dodgers go on to win 90 games and take 1st place in the National League Worst... uh, I mean West.

On another note, I grew a child molester mustache.  I grew it for LOTS of reasons and I think it's pretty awesome.  I've only had it for a couple days and it's brought all kinds of good luck.  Like Hoof Hearted (my softball team) finally won a game.  Not only did we win, but we did it in convincing fashion.  I went 4-5 with a double and a triple, 4 runs scored, and 2 RBIs from the lead-off spot while beating the other team like a rented mule 20-3.  And then today we get Manny.  My run of good luck can be attributed to nothing other than...

THE POWER OF THE 'STACHE!

iRun.

You gotta give the people what they want, and what they want is more blogging by Matt.  I have had numerous people ask me to update my blog and I know I've been a real slacker with this thing.  So here goes.  A nice short post just to get the ball rolling.  Just like in baseball, the first one's the hardest...

So I ran a quick 4 miles today and one of the programs I use on my computer to track and analyze my runs told me that I have been using the program for exactly 1 year.  In the past year I have logged a total of 457 miles.  Since I started training for the marathon on May 6 I have pounded out 268 miles.  Training is going great.  I'm keeping up with my runs and I am still healthy and injury free (knock on wood).

My summer hasn't been completely consumed with running though.  I've been basically going non-stop with each weekend bringing something else new and exciting.  If you check out Amanda's blog you'll see in great detail a lot of the fun things I've done.  Since my last post I have been to New York City for a Dodgers/Mets game, Philadelphia and Atlantic City for Herzbrun's kick ass bachelor party, DC with Micah and Julie for a great DMB show, Ohio for a crazy family reunion, and North Carolina and Tennessee for an incredible summer camp.  I have also completely finished my master's degree with George Mason University and made a fairly major life decision that will undoubtedly impact my future.  More to come on my "life decision" in a later post.  Again, if you want details on any of my recent adventures, check out Amanda's blog!

That's all for now.  Honestly this time, I'm going to update more frequently.  Stay tuned!