and today would be that day, but here i am anyway. started out ok as i was up early(a.m. heart rate was 48-coming back down) and out the door at 7:15am to run. very foggy and cold, about 27 degrees. left gail on her computer and agreed to meet up later. out and about and did my usual loop plus some and headed back to the house to look for gail and hooked up with a neighbor and we ran home together. btw- the river was blue today beth. was green yesterday.
gail was just coming out and that was nice as i had 5+ miles in at this point. all hard miles, slow enough, but with trouble breathing and a right leg that yelled, no more. why? who knows? with yesterday off to play golf one would think the legs would have some life in them after 28 straight days of running, but it was all a struggle. walking a golf course never tires me, though walking up the one hill at pinecrest is always a pain.
we went back up to the river and did the down the river trail and back towards botley road where i again left gail and headed back up the river as she heded home and to the bodlean library. i was determined to get at least 10 miles in regardless of how i felt. stubbornly stupid- not the way i would coach me for sure.
at 8+ miles the legs had some life suddenly-still hurting, but at least able to run. did a pretty decent 2+ miles of almost 2 minute pickups, concentrating on form and breathing rather than pace. this almost always makes me go faster anyway and i tried again to use the right leg. and then a slowwwwww two mile cooldown.
as tri-athelete and coach debbi bernardes says-"Then you have the issues of slapping the feet as you get tired - creating more force on the whole area. No matter how tired you are you need to pick up your feet and pretend that you are 'hunting for wabbits...be wery, wery quiet!"
finally had enough and headed home. where my pc was still not working correctly and where i proceeded to put a screw through my right hand. just what i need is another really pretty scar and this one will be a beaut. a good start to the day.
so i skipped the market in the morning and headed up to the driving range to see if i could build on yesterday's golf game with the stuff i noted i had to practice.
no power at the range for awhile, but they fixed it to my not good fortune as i was pure rubbish and just wrapped up 140 efforts and headed home. will figure that out later.
off to the market - nice walk up and back and got some of what i needed. the public market is real hit and miss, but gave me the time to get a $2 usa today and a cheese and salad sandwich on spinach bread. pretty good too. will miss the fresh bread here when i am home in bush's world.
and that brings me to here- trying to fix the pc and blogging while i wait for tech support to guess again what is wrong-
12 miles, did laundry, bad golf range, good market, decent sandwich and a usa today-how can you beat that day? and 160 and a wakeup of more opportunities for similar experiences.
so who was the second baseman for the braves? i will not google it.....
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