back from philly-four days worth

short version- 4 runs of 4,7, 11 and 8. 4 easy miles before going to philly to see my mom. then drove up and spent two days there. spent a mostly inside day visiting and had a nice dinner from giovanni's. was very cold there. got up the next day and went to tookany creek to run and got about 7 miles in while running untimed but hard enough 100 and 200's. it was about 1-7 degrees depending on who you were listening to. eventually the sun came up and it helped. spent the rest of the day visiting after breakfast at jack's deli. can't beat jacks. then later in the day drove home trying not to get caught up in the traffic headed south following the president elect's talks in philly and wilmington. made it home ok though traffic was a little bit heavier than usual. and found out that gail's older car had been broken into along with several others in the neighborhood, though nothing of value was in it and nothing appeared to have been taken. got up the next morning and ran a decent 6 miles after a slow 5 mile warmup. included was 12 x a short hill interval workout just to get the legs going.

and then played golf and got some practice in before watching the eagles lose to the cardinals as someone forgot how to play defense and cover fitzgerald. caught up with the house chores, etc and was up and out early enough on MLK's holiday to run 8 too quick miles with george on the mt vernon trail. then went to practice golf again and met nate and jennifer there. hadn't seen nate in awhile. jennifer and i talked running while he hit as i was already done. nate is had lived in austin, tx and wants to go back and we talked about that for a bit. and finally back home.

30 miles in the last 4 days brought the week to 53 for the second straight week. need to add a few miles this week. signed up for another marathon.

and another day is close to being done. still lots to do, but cold weather will keep me in more than usual perhaps and i will catch up.

end of gw bush tomorrow. the world is full of hope that the new admin. will turn things around and so am i.