Mr. Gibson's (elfstones) blog

I'm going to start tracking my running via this blog My short term goal is to run a 5 K in 35 minutes. that is a 11:15 mile: Friday April 13th - trail - el gain 8 feet   46:02 min - 2.88 mile(s)   Avg 15:58 min - 1 mile   365 Cal Sunday April 15th - treadmill - incline 0   13:15 min - 1.000 mile   20:00 min - 1.427 mile(s)   205 Cal Monday April 16th  - treadmill - incline 0   12:33 min - 1.000 mile   20:00 min - 1.500 mile(s)   27.40 min - 2.000 mile(s)   29.58 min - 2.143 mile(s)   292 Cal

Here is my first whinny post of the season. The Cubs have struck out a NL-record 58 times through 1st 5 games. Who are the strike-out problem players? Heyward. nope. Schwarber. Wrong. Happ for 8 strike-outs, Contreras for 8, and Rizzo for 6. Rest of the hitters for 5 SOs each. Worse, the Cubs have been blanked twice in those five games by sub-par teams. You can't win games if the lead off hitter (Happ) can't get on base, even by a walk.