last sunny day for awhile

funny how fast they can change the forecast here going from 5 days of sunny and warm weather to 4-5 days of heavy or light showers, but they tell me we have been lucky so far for the weather in may. this past weekend there was an article in the paper about people who move away from here and don't want to come back and the weather plays a big part in it as one can imagine. would be a lot easier having an outdoor lifestyle someplace where it wasn't dark and didn't rain a lot i suppose. i didn't finish the article but i will and report back.

but today when we went out to run it was closer to 46 degrees than 76 degrees and with a little wind in our faces it was totally different than the past few days. gail ran her heel recovering loop and i tagged along or just in front of her, going back and forth a little and we made kit over and then down the thames river. it was really pretty out and the senior crew teams were out and doing intervals and practice starts. fun to watch and i tried to run harder myself. at about 4 miles gail went off towards home and i ran down botley rd a bit and cut over to the bike path- found out the official name of this path is "the ramblers jubilee celebration path", and i ran past the horses towards north hinksey and then turned back towards osney lane. a new pinto and solid white horse were in the pasture bringing the total to seven horses and they were playing and eating and having a good time as i ran by. the black horse looked up to see who was breathing loudly as i went by and went back to his grassy hay stuff.

i stopped at the made up track and decided to run my sprints. ran 14 of them and stopped. was running them ok, but just could not get my head into it and i knew my legs wanted relief. rather than fight it today as i realized i needed the break, i headed home around the outside loop and settled for 8 miles. a good run, but shorter than i had hoped for. still, it didn't make sense to take a chance on hurting something when i clearly didn't want to go anymore and rather than change stride and risked injury i bailed out. 8 is enough as they used to say.

quick breakfast and a load of laundry later and i was on the way to the range. nobody was there and i hit my bucket and half ok continuing to work on stuff and even hit some decent fairway woods-at least those that didn't hook. then i chipped 60chips each with the 8iiron, lob wedge and hybrid. taught myself how to hit a cut hybrid chip-will save that for adrienne somewhere in ireland. also taught myself how to bow my right wrist so i can it certain shots at different height levels and it can really turn a club into a putter or power a ball forward out of a hole. nice to know that shot. then dave gave me some free balls that were left over and i actually hit some drivers- first time since december. wasn't great but mostly straight at least and i saw the potential. still a work in progress as it will be the for the rest of my life i am sure.

home to write up my book review and wrap books for the book swap tonight. will see how my suggestion goes over; i wrapped up some extra books for the new people so nobody would get left out. email today announcing the resignation of our club leader and asking for a new volunteer. i have two more meetings after tonight and will miss the group. one of the few things i miss whenever we move away from somewhere is the book club. i will start my own when i get back to alexandria.

and life goes on. sun is out - the calm before the storm. somewhere in wva people are voting and hillary is closer than ever to dropping out. i don't care who they run for president, but they better beat mccain. was reading about bob barr getting into the race. you just have to love a democracy. i forgot to look and see if he had his flag pin on.

stay well everyone and remember what really matters......and it isn't tomorrow's rain, unless you have an early tee time.

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