no real time to do this so i will be quick. more packing up and cleaning up to go. we ran 5 miles this morning before dealing with the bank and post office and book movers. the post office wanted $150 to leave a forwarding address. skipped that made a deal with a friend to take care of it for us in exchange for some goodies we left behind. sold one bike and gave the other one to a friend who gave us cheesecake which we just ate as dessert to wash down our burritos. nice trade. and then most of the rest of the day went to doing what we all know we have to do when we move basically- add in some golf range stuff, saying good bye to friends and packing. i made that sound so simple but it involved many bus rides and lots of walking back and forth to town but it is mostly done. had the good fortune to deal with the nicest people today and that helped a lot. still more to do and away i go.
will get into it more after we get home. taxi comes in 8 hours and we are still tossing stuff out and packing. a good year mostly, but the best part has been the people we met. hopefully we will stay in touch. when you get older you start to realize the relative unimportance of stuff and the importance of the people you come to know and like. the people give you energy and substance. the stuff provides some memories maybe. was it hard throwing away some things? yea a little, but it got easier as i went. the old race shirts were just that - old shirts full of yesterday's memories and it is time for new ones. the only shirt i regretted throwing away was the presque isle 12 race shirt but the washing machine had killed it off anyway. and i will do the race again this fall so i will get another.
and yet this is the point i tried to make. this year i will run in rick's memory as he is no longer with us. the cancer we both had finally ended his battle and as my own continues i will treasure this year's shirt as part of his memory. 53 year olds are not supposed to die and yet i know they do. i will be pressed to not turn my little blogging diary into a runner's memorial and i will try. and i was thinking that this year i would re-kindle the old tabbo 6 hour runs as part of the memories of frank and john and steve and andy- has been awhile since i have run 6 hours and no doubt i cannot run 45 miles in that time anymore. the longest run here i think was 3:45minutes. with stops that was probably 20 miles. my best 20 mile time was 2:17as i recall. oh well-
anyway- life is good. we will go home and get back in the swing of things. this may be the year we finally get the inner drive golf club off of the ground. will i get the old job of golf secretary back/ will hilltop have saved my place as the monday starter? am i still on the handicap committee? how fast can i run 5k? will i finally run the 60 miles to harper's ferry again? all ahead ---
but first the car needs a new windshield and we need to deal with the flooded out basement and we have trips to ireland and france again soon and cincinnati and erie and va beach and philly and caps games and the harrisburg run.
hope some of this made sense but i have to go.- a younger dumber larry would have not ever let this year end at 2986 miles. i have seen a lot of oxford over and over, a beautiful place to run. it is good to have stopped short; shows the compulsive part of me is growing up. now for the rest of me to catch up.
next time from the USA- if they let us in.
memory jogger to self- builth, wales and leith, scotland
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