another rainy day in Oxford;still tired

well, today proved what i believed-that i was strong enough to do yesterday's 10 mile run and not recovered enough to not suffer from it. went out today in a pretty decent rain storm and died pretty quickly. still, you have to get home right so i kept going until i had "covered" 6 miles. would hate to say i "ran" it.

was pretty enough out despite the rain and i was not used to seeing so much farmland under water. what i need is a couple of solid days off. my morning heart rate was 46, up 1 from yesterday, but a good indication that my heart is in better shape than my legs right now. gone are the 38-41 heart rate days of yesteryear. but 45 is now my recovered rate. saw my blonde bike rider friend who was on her way to school and she told me it rains more in april and she was worried about her village flooding again. kudoos to her for riding to school in this rain. she was the only person i saw while i was out.

after shower , food and chores, i went to the range to see if i could recapture the great swing of yesterday. no and yes... it took a while and some so-so hitting before i think i figured out the lack of consistency problem. the first 2 feet of the takeaway is where i was screwing up. once i figured it out i had just enough time to hit 60 balls or so and head off to my book club. i hit the last balls really solidly and high and farther.. i am like 2 totally different golfers and i am not going to be that. i will figure this out!!

then cleanup and walk up to cornmarket for the club meet-about 18 of us there. this month we read and saw "kite runner". a really mixed reaction to the book, but generally liked . will meet twice next month on my suggestion as a compromise to some people not being able to make tuesday. with 53 members this was a good compromise. several good books were put forward to be voted on.

then ran back in a heavy rain. a nice way of getting 3 more miles in or so. legs actually felt better tonight than this morning. wonder how much the golf practice and being on my feet for 3 more hours interferes with the running.

all in all another day done. have emails to answer and mail to write out, but tomorrow is another day after a trip to the public farmer's market. not supposed to rain. ha!

want to work out a better schedule for a bit and see if it helps. more time off and some more speedwork. then tighten up the schedule of races to try and do. will run rochester marathon and erie endurance classic for sure in sept and oct. will figure out the rest.

wonder if nevada will let kucinich in to the debate. will the south vote for obama ? do too many people not like hillary enough to not vote for her? can anyone vote for any of the republicans? yes, but why? how much embarrassment can one country stand? how many times must i be asked how we could ever have voted bush for president? what country will i move to if huckabee somehow wins?
under 200 days to go.