Sunday, 27 September 2009.
Now if I can just keep from being stupid, I'v gotten plenty of proof over the years stupid hurts.
In regards to Marathons; The training sucks for the second one as much as it does for the first!
Still modifing the training so it wasn't as intense as last year does make it feel less taxing in the long run. yet as it was this past Friday's 20.4 mile long training run sucked. My gluts were sore and my calves are still sore this morning. I am promising myself that this is the last marathon I will do. But I've been known to break a promise or two. So if I survive in good physical form through my 100th Birthday, maybe I'll don one then. Then clocking me in furlongs per fortnight might be a viable option.
This will be an easy training week as I am heading to Washington DC on Friday evening or Saturday morning to partake in the Army 10 Miler. It should prove to be an interesting run. I hope to finish at about one hour and fifty minutes. One hour fourty would be very nice and still I'll be satitsfied to complete the event in under two hours. But those are hopes and I shall see how well I've prepared on race day.
Autumn has struck and the temps are much cooler in the mornings now. Humidity is still farly high but drops off much faster as the mornings progress it seems. Still the cooler weather is a nice change from my late July, August and early September training sessions.
Last weekend I partook in two parades with the Stephen Driscoll Memorial Pipe Band, Fraternal Order of Police Lodge, 704. They exemplified my need for wider more comfortable walking shoes, which I had ordered. They arrived on monday morning after the parades (groan).
As for the past week itself, a few different things culmanating on Saturday. It was a matter of helping younger brother get his yard in order for the coming winter. Brush cutting, weed wacking, wood cutting for the barn's stove were on top of the agenda followed by assisting in remounting the plow on the rusting heap of a jeep. My youngest brother didn't ask me untill the last minute to house sit his geriatric dog untill late friday morning. I had to decline as I had already told my oldest brother that I'd be over on Saturday to help clean the chimney and stove at his place. There we actually got done in decent order. No unplaned toppling of chimney caps or replacement of bricks; This time it was planned to patch and replace those as needed. We even capped off the top with a coat of motar to protect the brick work from weather.
So for now my virus and malware sweep of the computer is complete, I'm consuming a bowl of soggy cheerios and wil be heading to the laundrymat a bit later this morning. Today shall be a good day.
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