decent thursday of stuff done

was up early and must admit was a little disappointed by the heart rate of 49- with no run yesterday this should have been lower, but wanted to run anyway. and out the door i went and over to king george's park where i ran striders while gail ran loops around the bike path. did my usual routine of sets of six with some stretches after each set and trying to run each set a little faster as i got a little looser. that worked ok today and ran 18 in three sets and then did one 200 in 49. that is a decent pace for me these days -anything under 50 is still good for me. the days of
16 x 38 are over. then i ran a couple more sprints trying to just relax and stride out. went ok. gail was done and i jogged back to the bike path so she could head home while i did my little cooldown loops. quick note that today's run put me over 2800 miles for the 11 plus months here so far. with 27 days to go and lots of travel ahead i should be around 2950 when we leave here, a lot of miles. a shame i eat so much.

then back home and up to city center for the market as we wanted to trade books in. we have a deal going on with the used book guy now that we trade him books for more used books and then we don't have to pay. we always give him more books in an uneven exchange but it satisfies both of us. seems like a really nice guy and it is always a pleasant visit. i think we traded 7 for 4 today-a good deal for both of us. he'll get them all in the end as they are not coming home with us. he is still hoping to have a book he wrote published also.

then ran some errands and hit several stores and the bank and finished up and went back home to do some work around the house and some extra clean up after the cat who knocked over a bunch of stuff while we were gone. the cat has certainly not been himself since his buddy passed away. and then onto the golf range where i practiced with a few friends and that went as ok as it could. i continue to work on my swing and have learned a good deal in the past several days. still have work to do though of course. the good balls are better but there are the surprises that i need to get rid of. goes something like this; great, great, block, so-so, block; great; hook; etc----

anyway- lots of admin type stuff to do tonight and worked on it for awhile before this; will deal with bills tomorrow after i try to go see an European ladies golf tournament about 20 miles or whatever from here. have so so info on getting there by bus and figure i will walk or run some to make it work i hope. will let you know.

off i go- another day gone. tomorrow is july4th back home but they probably don't celebrate it here huh?