three straight nights of almost no sleep and a 14 mile run

was up and out of the house at 6:20am today to try and do a little longer run and see what effect the day of rest yesterday might have, while at the same time checking to see if the very little bit of dinner i had would have any impact.

as it was still plenty dark i stayed on the streets for the first 56 minutes and then went onto the trail heading north carrying my own water so i could skip the fountains. actually ran ok and though it wasn't anywhere near fast as i held back a little to keep the heart rate down, i moved steadily north on the trail and went all the way up to belle haven near the 8 mile marker, and then turned back south to take the east blvd loop home. ran into some people i knew there out with their dogs so i turned back north and ran home with them and then headed back south myself.

went up the big hill pretty easily and that was a good sign. also threw in some 20-40yard pickups just to stretch the legs a bit and not for any real speedwork. cut back over the parkway at collingwood and again stayed off of the trail and did the loop around waynewood and collingwood. then added just a bit og going south on the trail and finally headed home. about 14 miles and that was decent. walked a cool down walk for 15 minutes and stretched. could have stayed out longer but was happy to finish while nothing unusual hurt, though i was a little disappointed that the right quad seemed to be tightening up a tad.( 13 hours later as i write this and it was pretty good all day today). so the rest helped and the lack of carb loading had no effect that i could tell. drank way more than usual all day to see if can stop the nasty leg cramps in the quads. will see....

a quick look at the papers and 3 hours of work in the garden moving step stones and pavers was interesting and not too tiring and then headed off to the golf range to hit some balls and do some short game. two hours on the green with my usual 4 clubs and then a large bucket of balls and off to the airport to get gail. made it there 15 minutes ahead of time and then back home for dinner and the usual sunday night chores.

and here i am -- busy week ahead and will have the work crew here for four days so i will catch up on my emails starting monday. the email system came back up late last night and now the tv's are not working, but i think they got screwed up when we lost power on friday. still, we are making progress. lots of travel coming up soon so the work schedule is about to get screwed up. no word yet from the door and shutter people. what can i say?

eagles gave one away today, but washington is a nicer place to live when the football team wins. hockey season started and that will be good. one month to the elections and sarah can go back to her hockey also- this election will show just how smart or dumb this country can be or is. or how racist. what are we ready for is the question i want answered. time will tell.

79,582 miles since i started counting. 161 over the last three weeks. figure 9-10 weeks to hit 80k since i have so much travel coming up i will miss some days. have also been doing about 65 miles a week on the bike to stretch and get used to 90rpm's.

home nine weeks now. some good and some bad. miss england in many ways. the two mplaces together make one great place.

big way to go to the phillies.