tired day

today was the tired day i anticipated that it would be after yesterday's run. with not enough to do here i am going to have to be more disciplined into taking some time off now and then rather than wait for the wall to fall on me during a run. each step today was like the 25th mile of a hard marathon and all of my little tricks i have learned over the years to perk it up didn't work, so i cut it off about 5 miles and went to buy a newspaper. unfortunatly the tried must have carried over to the golf range and the really great day of practice yesterday was not there today.

so gave the day up to relaxing and some house chores and a little BBC. all in all a pleasant enough day. still need to figure out some stuff about this site so it will work better and will tr to spend some time on it tomorrow.

interesting watching america from a distance and getting the news with the uk slant. we live in a neighborhhod that is tuly working people and it is hard enough for people to just carry on the day to day grind of life walking and riding their bikes to work in the rain and being 1.5 miles from the grocery store and paying over 5 bucks to have ashirt cleaned and gas would be about $10.20 a gallon. if they sold it in gallons. hard to complain about $3. but it would be easier if we had a dryer here instead of having to turn the house into a clothesline wikth running, golf, and biking clothes as well as work clothes for gail.

this week starts track work with the schedule that i wrote up. will haveto get a little rest first. i have no illusions about being anywhere near as fast as i used to be. i just enjoy running on the track and doing some form of speedwork. it cost me $70 for a year membership to the only public track around that is 2+ miles from here and i have run to a few times. it is in the stadium that roger bannister broke 4 minutes, though the track is new-and running somewhat hard, i ran an 8:14 mile there in my last attempt. a ways to go as they say to get under 7-my stated goal. ha.

i remember when everyone over 40 wanted to break 4 minutes. the problem is staying healthy enough to do the hard stuff. i can see i still have some short speed, but trying to do the long stuff needed breaks me down and i am trying a real build up approach. that is why i am tired also.

enough for now. will figure out this blog stuff as i go. happy birthday nto ray r wherever you might be right now.