reality takes over

well as the title suggests, what i want to do and what i get done are often different these days. did get up very early and went to the track in the dark and loosened up until the sun started to come up so i could see my watch as i hoped to do some speedwork, but reality took over and the legs finally gave in to the past several days of decently hard workouts. i did manage to get in 16 x 100 and 3 x 200's and the ones at the end went better than the ones at the beginning as i loosened up some more, but the truth was my legs were tight. they weren't tired, just tight and i could feel the right quad and groin just waiting to be injured. i kept the pace and stride under control and it almost felt funny as the lungs weren't working hard at all, but the legs were not having any fun. i can usually coast through 53 second 200's on my way down into the high 40's but the three i did today were 57,57 and 56 though they felt much faster as i ran them- so eventually i just stopped and did a twenty minute very slow cooldown-what was i cooling down from i would ask myself. another day perhaps- not injured anyway and everything i do under 8 minutes these days is speedwork of course. i should have known by the morning heart rate at 48. last week was 43. must be tired. gail fought off a cold or flu or something this week and could i have a touch of something? don't think so. time will tell.

and the crew showed up 90 minutes late. but they did come as i was mowing the lawn and replanting some more things. then i hit 100 pitch shots and about 40 chips and called that a day. the water was turned off in the house which made for an interesting day also, but eventually it was back on and i only had to fix one high pressure flood. good thing i don't live near a levee.

and then beth came and we went out to dinner and had a nice pleasant few hours of good company and food and no work.

off to do some chores now and try and get some sleep. keep putting off catching up but in reality not sure it matters. lots of travel ahead and would be nice not to be sick.

mc cain was funny today trying to cancel the debate. what a joke..............will the people of this country ever get serious about who leads them and where they are going, or will they just march along behind anyone going anywhere to do anything? just how much money can we borrow from china? instead of borrowing 700 billion, why not just borrow 250 million and give everyone who paid taxes a million. we could stir up the economy and help pay off mortgages and save zillions?????????????

meanwhile it is time for me to sign up for social security. that should be fun.....