has been a long time since my legs were this dead, but didn't find this out until gail and i had gone out to run and were heading up the lane to the river and then north on the trail towards tree cemetery. not much to do but tough it out. every step felt like the 24th mile of a marathon not going very well. but tough it out is what you do on days like these and eventually you grab onto the prettiness of the morning and the cows, horses and sheep and the moving river and just keep going. and then somehow you are running down botley road towards the grocery store and the little five mile run is behind you.
always like to ask myself if i knew before i ran that it was going to go like this would i have gone out anyway? of course- will skip one of the next two days and get some legs back. 4 days of rain ahead and a trip to london also so will work around that. sometimes being retired has some real advantages. not being old, but being retired.
found a you-tube guy who has over 200 gordon lightfoot songs on his sight. i have seen gordon now 14 times in concert so he leads neil young 14-11. i read that canada has more guitars than any other country in the world and they think it is because of gordon being so popular there. hard to believe he'll be 70 this year.
eventually we made it up to the market and traded in used books for more used books and then gail headed off to school and i went to the post office to mail bills. then a quick stop at the store for bagels and yogurt and bananas. a really nice day and the market is packed. most colleges are done now and the kids and tourists and parents are everywhere.
passed on walking home and grabbed the bus. met some people from Jacksonville, Florida at the bus stop, and it turned out that the husband and i had run the marathon there the same year. was advertised as the flattest marathon in the country back then. not sure he fully believed me when i told him we went to Savannah the next day and ran the marathon there. that was back in the days of sy mah(who talked me into savannah), who at that time had run more marathons than anyone. a nice professor from harvard with a sweet wife. the good old days. still, running didn't stop his cancer , but he enjoyed his life more than most. now norm frank has taken up that mantle of running the most marathons. norm and i have run many a marathon together and a nicer guy you would have to look far and wide to find. hope to see him in penna. at the 12 hour race this fall.
and then i went off to the driving range where i hope i finally figured out how to make the turn i have been trying to learn. hit a zillion balls but worked really hard at all of them and did all of the drills and i think it will pay off. not to completely undo the good feelings of the day i hit up to the 5 iron. will do the woods later. not all went straight of course, but solid and high and some length was back In them. a good start. of course, that swing is gone and tomorrow is a new day. i used to say that, but with this new plan, i should be able to at least try for the same swing even if the vagaries of the day confuse the issue.
and home to eat and do laundry and read the paper and throw out stuff. with 67 days to go it is almost time to start getting ready and i am. celebrated joyce randolph's birthday with a piece of chocolate cheesecake. the least i can do. hope she was able to do the same back in fayetteville, pa.
and the world goes on. stay well out there. forget the short grass and hit the green.
sad, sad, hillary.... what a lousy system they have and i can see some of her point. will be curious to see the end game. sometimes the dumbness of such simple things amazes me. if the simple little easy things are so complicated, how do the hard things get done? a dumb ramble i know- must be the mood- but how do we negotiate with iran when we cannot decide what to do about florida and michigan? and how many businesses will we close to send people back to mexico? and why does it matter who marries who? i know that one. and is it right to charge for the first bag you check? and how will $5 gas change the way we live? i saw a guy pay 5pounds 60 today for a pack of marlboro's. in us dollars that would be $11.20. how do people pay that just to smoke and get cancer?
later............
Thursday, May 22, 2008
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