run, golf, read and eat

heart rate was 48 when i went to sleep around midnight, but i had a really restless night of trying to sleep while dealing with the right leg and what i will sciatica-- could just be piriformis and itb plus something else going down the entire right side-what do i know- but the pain was there. so i didn't get the usual recovery of 3-5 heartbeats and woke up at 48 also, and still knowing i wasn't feeling quite right.

waited a bit to make sure i was ok enough to go run and drank some water. finally decided to go run and stay close to home for awhile, but once i got outside on a morning best described as sunny intervals, i seemed ok and ran a long somewhat quicker than normal warmup as i really wanted to do some sprints today. after some long and short loops around the park and bike path, i headed back over the the made up track. fortunately the lanes are still burned into the grass and i can still see the white outlines.

started cautiously enough and ran two sets of six with a stretch break between sets. ran well enough and my times have gotten better over the past few months. it is much easier to run them quicker than i used to with less effort and also when i want to i can pick up the pace and run them faster. after two sets i tried relaxing for a few to see how easy i could make them go and that went ok. i could feel the piriformis a bit after the 15th one and decided to try two more and stop. the last one was my fastest one since i have been here and that was a good sign. met a nice guy named conrad after my last one who had been in a clint eastwood movie in africa and he told me clint was a really nice guy. we talked politics for a few minutes and then each of us went where we needed to go. i ran back down the bike path to get some cooldown in and towards north hinksey village to check out their gardens, still about 63 degrees and a little windy but not bad out. a nice day for here and no rain in the forecast.

then home after getting the newspaper and some food at the store and spent the morning doing laundry and reading a bit. then off to the range to hit a few balls before we headed up to summertown for some italian food. the range went so-so at best. took about 60 balls working on my takeaway to start figuring it out. the last balls were really good, but it is just too frustrating these days. chipped for 20 minutes and headed home. only brought 3 clubs with me and that made it easier at least to walk home and also got to chip with two clubs i never use. not much difference though. same technique and a little more or less air time and roll. nice to know i can use pretty much any club now. have been practicing with my hybrid lately also and that is pretty decent to get through higher rough and when the ball is sitting down. would be nice to be able to do this to a green, but that will come soon enough now.

we walked up to city center and took a bus up to summertown and then walked to the restaurant. one of the few we like to eat at as the food is good and the service is better than usual. still really expensive using usa money, but what can you do? for some salad and personal pizzas, a couple of waters and diet sodas and two good deserts, with tip it was $93. probably $40-50 more than at home. oh well....

then we walked the 4 miles home. nice night to walk and we saw many colleges as we went and we were able to walk off some of the dinner. pleasant enough though i started to feel today's run somewhere along the way. my legs don't really get tired they just get tight and if i am out long enough the pf will start vibrating.

and then home. listened to last night's gwen iffel show and watched some wimbledon and here i am. now back to fold the clothes i washed and read some more about the russian revolution.

a pleasant enough day and one less to go. more and more of what i do now is to get ready to leave. on monday i will pay the last month's rent, having already paid all of our council taxes for the year. will be curious to see how the price of gasoline will change our life at home. how will fairfax county cope with lower house assessments or will they just raise the tax rate on lower assessments? our house will go through an overhaul one way or another when we get back.

time to bring back the datsun b-210.