last day of august

like the rain in england the humidity becomes pretty standard here in alexandria. went out and headed north on the trail while waiting for gail to join up. down to the half mile from the house bridge and back and there she was. we definitely had different goals for today as i had run about 18 days in a row, guessing a bit here, but at least 16 anyway and i could use a short and easy day. we headed back north and i figured i might do the east blvd loop if i felt ok by the 4 mile marker. moving slowly but moving ok. at the alexandria st. bridge gail kept going north and i turned and ran to the loop course.

ran all the way down to the parkway and turned back north to see if gail was coming yet, but no luck. guessed that she had turned back to the water fountain and guess right, but now had added almost two extra miles. turned for home.

back across the parkway and picked up the pace slightly to catch up to the runner in front of me to have some company. caught up and we ran all the way back to our street together. was nice to chat about the upcoming marathon season rather than run alone at this point. up waynewood i went and home. 8 miles done and 55 for the week. not bad but not much quality either. too tired too much of the time now and tonight will be another late night again.

the rest of the day in a nutshell went like this- work in the garden planting and moving plants; getting 8 bins of rubbish together to go out; two loads of laundry; some short chipping and putting practice; moving more of the laundry room out to the shed or the attic. tossing out more stuff(1/3 rule still working); some dinner; and then off to the range and hit some balls and do some longer chipping and putting. back home at 10 to deal with the rest of the rubbish going out and read some of the sunday paper. quick snack and some of the 11 o'clock news and then a short blog session. tomorrow i will try to do some email in addition to getting ready for the work crews coming this week.

an ok day with lots of work and some play also. gail made her first pizza in a year and that was nice. thinking of what didn't get done doesn't really help right now. at least we bought a couch this weekend and made some decisions on the bathroom. now to get the downstairs done.

monday is a track day and i need a longer long run this week. the legs are tired and need some rest. will see how the week unfolds. figure i will take two days off this week and do a long run and also try and join the golf group on thursday and play, but that depends where they go.

i love the garbage about hillary's people voting for palin. is that a joke? can moderately liberal people really vote for the far right conservative just because she is a woman? do the issues really not matter at all? he would have done better taking Rice. people would have understood that more. what a joke this has become---but what do i know?