Monday, October 27, 2008
Friday, October 24, 2008
an ok day of stuff done and undone
up this morning after 9 hours of sleep, the most i have had in a long time, and found my pulse to be at 54. just cannot remember the last time it was that high-maybe when i had the flu or after one of my surgeries- but it was not a good sign that on a day after i basically took it as easy as i could and slept as much as i did that my weight was down a couple of pounds and my pulse was just horrible.
given that scenario and not quite sure what to do as i didn't feel sick and am hoping there is no deep down hidden health, once you have cancer you think every weird thing happening is the cancer returning-it doesn't help me that my drs have promised me a relapse at some point given the 100% chance i have of a recurrence statistically.
but out the door i went and ran and took some walk breaks to try not to push it too much and did a little over 5 miles. legs started ok and tired after 3 miles. not good. skipped the bike ride and did some yard work and then went to work when the work crew did not show up as planned. did the afternoon shift at the golf course and a little bit of practicing afterwards and came home. feel worse and am mad that i was dumb enough to skip my vitamins this week a couple of times for no real reason other than i just didn't take them. lack of routine ....
email is back up and will catch up tomorrow before i head back out to penna. would be really nice to be back in oxford right now. gail's birthday this week, a world series game to go to and my brother is coming in from oregon. this plus more house stuff should keep the week busy enough, not to mention all of the driving ahead. and here comes the rain, faking oxford perhaps.. kidding--
still trying and failing to catch up but have a new plan i will put into action tomorrow as it is almost tomorrow right now.
given that scenario and not quite sure what to do as i didn't feel sick and am hoping there is no deep down hidden health, once you have cancer you think every weird thing happening is the cancer returning-it doesn't help me that my drs have promised me a relapse at some point given the 100% chance i have of a recurrence statistically.
but out the door i went and ran and took some walk breaks to try not to push it too much and did a little over 5 miles. legs started ok and tired after 3 miles. not good. skipped the bike ride and did some yard work and then went to work when the work crew did not show up as planned. did the afternoon shift at the golf course and a little bit of practicing afterwards and came home. feel worse and am mad that i was dumb enough to skip my vitamins this week a couple of times for no real reason other than i just didn't take them. lack of routine ....
email is back up and will catch up tomorrow before i head back out to penna. would be really nice to be back in oxford right now. gail's birthday this week, a world series game to go to and my brother is coming in from oregon. this plus more house stuff should keep the week busy enough, not to mention all of the driving ahead. and here comes the rain, faking oxford perhaps.. kidding--
still trying and failing to catch up but have a new plan i will put into action tomorrow as it is almost tomorrow right now.
Thursday, October 23, 2008
progress??? run, bike and golf....
two days later now and i am just not keeping up-- like tonight i got home late last night and then have to do so much to get ready for the next day that there is not much time to blog or do much of any of what i once considered real life- knowing that it is all part of real life doesn't help when the time is spent dealing with house construction stuff-
yesterday started with a short run and then house stuff and then just went to play 9 holes of golf. met up with three other guys doing the same as me and we had a nice enough outing together. played ok despite still not striking the ball that great and ended up 3 over par with two birdies. happy enough though given the state of my not practicing like i would like.
then drove to meet gail at the HMO for her tests and that went ok-now wait for the results of course. and then home. hit some chips in the backyard and putted a bit and then spent the night trying to put some order back into the rooms which were worked on. needed to find some winter clothes to run in as the weather is clearly turning towards winter and we may have seen the last of any warm days. then jumped on the indoor bike and rode 25 miles just trying to spin at 90-95 rpm's without really trying to ride hard. that went ok and watched the phils game as i rode. and then went back to work on house stuff knowing the guys were coming at 7am this morning and things had to be moved around.
exercise wise yesterday included 4 miles of running, 3 miles of walking and 25 miles of indoor biking plus some golf practice and 9 holes of golf. today started off differently as i knew i couldn't run and be home by 7am. so i moved the cars out of the way( as i just moved them back) and then did some garden work,some laundry, and started to clean out the shed. by 8:30 nobody had shown up and i put a phone call in to find out they hadn't really planned on coming. some miscommunication there for sure but they decided to come by 1pm.
so off i went to run and did a pretty solid 8 miles on the trail and road trying to just run steady. a very pretty morning and quite chilly, but it was nice to be out there along the river. got home with a little time to spare and rode the bike waiting for them to show up. got 23 miles in and they came as i was stopping. worked out as ok as it could have but i also knew that both doors were not getting put on today ( and as it turns out not tomorrow either).
the crew worked until after 5pm and i did some cleanup work and then went to hit some balls. a long slow ride to the range, but got lucky and had a chance to work a bit with a pro there who showed me why i was hitting the ball thin like i had been. hit 100 balls working on that and then chipped and putted for awhile and then hit some more balls working on the drills he gave me. must say it was a big help and i was making better contact almost right away and hit many really good balls. not all of them of course. need to keep going and work out the rest of it now. showed me the problem with trying to stay behind the ball the way i was doing it and how that kept me from hitting down on the ball like i should be doing, though it did keep me from blocking.
and then home. but first i saw a car accident on the way home where someone just cut out the car two cars in front of me and the guy had to moved and ended up hitting the barrier trying not to get creamed-the bad driver guy didn't stop and the good driver honda guy had a smashed in right front side-a shame the other guy just drove away. he had to know he caused an accident.
9:30 almost as i got home and moved the cars back into the driveway and tomorrow we will have to move them back again i guess. also have to work at the golf course. have a lot to do before i go to philly.
and life goes on- this is all peripheral stuff and as long as we are healthy for now we are ok. the house will get done no matter how slowly and at what cost. need to better about dealing with the ups and downs of the affect it has on my life better mentally and am trying to roll with it , but doing only so-so at that.
the next few weeks will be really busy with lots of driving and some good and bad stuff happening. will hope for the best and try to deal with it all. maybe the couch will even come. maybe the email will work - cox kept me out again today. the new norton stuff has changed something and i will try to work it out very soon. i type so slowly anyway that trying to maintain contract and relationships over email can be trying, though it is very practical with overseas friends.
winter is coming. more soon-
yesterday started with a short run and then house stuff and then just went to play 9 holes of golf. met up with three other guys doing the same as me and we had a nice enough outing together. played ok despite still not striking the ball that great and ended up 3 over par with two birdies. happy enough though given the state of my not practicing like i would like.
then drove to meet gail at the HMO for her tests and that went ok-now wait for the results of course. and then home. hit some chips in the backyard and putted a bit and then spent the night trying to put some order back into the rooms which were worked on. needed to find some winter clothes to run in as the weather is clearly turning towards winter and we may have seen the last of any warm days. then jumped on the indoor bike and rode 25 miles just trying to spin at 90-95 rpm's without really trying to ride hard. that went ok and watched the phils game as i rode. and then went back to work on house stuff knowing the guys were coming at 7am this morning and things had to be moved around.
exercise wise yesterday included 4 miles of running, 3 miles of walking and 25 miles of indoor biking plus some golf practice and 9 holes of golf. today started off differently as i knew i couldn't run and be home by 7am. so i moved the cars out of the way( as i just moved them back) and then did some garden work,some laundry, and started to clean out the shed. by 8:30 nobody had shown up and i put a phone call in to find out they hadn't really planned on coming. some miscommunication there for sure but they decided to come by 1pm.
so off i went to run and did a pretty solid 8 miles on the trail and road trying to just run steady. a very pretty morning and quite chilly, but it was nice to be out there along the river. got home with a little time to spare and rode the bike waiting for them to show up. got 23 miles in and they came as i was stopping. worked out as ok as it could have but i also knew that both doors were not getting put on today ( and as it turns out not tomorrow either).
the crew worked until after 5pm and i did some cleanup work and then went to hit some balls. a long slow ride to the range, but got lucky and had a chance to work a bit with a pro there who showed me why i was hitting the ball thin like i had been. hit 100 balls working on that and then chipped and putted for awhile and then hit some more balls working on the drills he gave me. must say it was a big help and i was making better contact almost right away and hit many really good balls. not all of them of course. need to keep going and work out the rest of it now. showed me the problem with trying to stay behind the ball the way i was doing it and how that kept me from hitting down on the ball like i should be doing, though it did keep me from blocking.
and then home. but first i saw a car accident on the way home where someone just cut out the car two cars in front of me and the guy had to moved and ended up hitting the barrier trying not to get creamed-the bad driver guy didn't stop and the good driver honda guy had a smashed in right front side-a shame the other guy just drove away. he had to know he caused an accident.
9:30 almost as i got home and moved the cars back into the driveway and tomorrow we will have to move them back again i guess. also have to work at the golf course. have a lot to do before i go to philly.
and life goes on- this is all peripheral stuff and as long as we are healthy for now we are ok. the house will get done no matter how slowly and at what cost. need to better about dealing with the ups and downs of the affect it has on my life better mentally and am trying to roll with it , but doing only so-so at that.
the next few weeks will be really busy with lots of driving and some good and bad stuff happening. will hope for the best and try to deal with it all. maybe the couch will even come. maybe the email will work - cox kept me out again today. the new norton stuff has changed something and i will try to work it out very soon. i type so slowly anyway that trying to maintain contract and relationships over email can be trying, though it is very practical with overseas friends.
winter is coming. more soon-
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
4 days worth/computer back up for now at least
no telling at what point my norton protection will crash again but for now i am working online.. was afraid to do too much in case i could mess someone else up- am so far behind now on emails, but the house is moving along- in a nut shell as i had 4hours of sleep last night trying to get the computer to work correctly--
ran 9, 9, 6 and 8 respectively in the last four days plus did 2 indoor twenty mile rides on the bike. had a really good run sunday and today, despite this morning's heart rate of 52--- hasn't been that high in a very long time and usually indicates that i am sick as it is even too high to show that i am just tired. last 4 weeks running mileage was 58, 55, 59 and 52. getting it back up though not doing anything long enough to train for this marathon and am now in taper time mode; counting on the old 3 hour runs getting me through. biggest problem i have is the legs just getting tight. at night they have been cramping way too often despite all of my usual time tested methods of not letting that happen.
we also attended an history dinner on saturday and caught some of the texas win over missouri and the saturday night live show with sarah palin- won't get into what i thought of that; then sunday we went to our friends don and judy and met roy and barbara and had a pizza party while we watched their presentation of the past summer's normany trip that they and gail went on together. a good time.
monday and tuesday i fit my stuff in and around the guys working on the house and dealing with yet a new bathroom leak in our third bathroom. what a house!
and this weekend i have the world series game i hope as we have tickets. will need to figure out how to get them to everyone so that we can all get in. will call-----
a little golf practice, but no playing other than 9 holes at hilltop one evening after the workers left. will decide what to do about golf really soon.
and now to put the house back together and get the rest of the shopping we need to do done and replace the furniture and stuff we threw away due to the flooded conditions.
more to say but it will have to wait. 79,707 is where i stand at the moment. less than 300 to go to hit 80k. big deal it is not i know, but another round number milestone. needing 293 miles, but also needing to taper for the race in penna. and with so much travel coming up- at least several driving trips- will be lucky to run some days. normally that would be less than 6 weeks, but would hope to hit it in about 7 weeks, putting it right around pearl harbor day, ironically i suppose.
will do some emails tomorrow if the pc is still working. the electric is back on as is the water. 2 doors and some painting to go -
the election is almost here and gone and the fate of the world awaits it. they really need another solution to the electoral college. but i digress. peace people. make sure you all vote- the vote and the boycott are two of our only tools.
ran 9, 9, 6 and 8 respectively in the last four days plus did 2 indoor twenty mile rides on the bike. had a really good run sunday and today, despite this morning's heart rate of 52--- hasn't been that high in a very long time and usually indicates that i am sick as it is even too high to show that i am just tired. last 4 weeks running mileage was 58, 55, 59 and 52. getting it back up though not doing anything long enough to train for this marathon and am now in taper time mode; counting on the old 3 hour runs getting me through. biggest problem i have is the legs just getting tight. at night they have been cramping way too often despite all of my usual time tested methods of not letting that happen.
we also attended an history dinner on saturday and caught some of the texas win over missouri and the saturday night live show with sarah palin- won't get into what i thought of that; then sunday we went to our friends don and judy and met roy and barbara and had a pizza party while we watched their presentation of the past summer's normany trip that they and gail went on together. a good time.
monday and tuesday i fit my stuff in and around the guys working on the house and dealing with yet a new bathroom leak in our third bathroom. what a house!
and this weekend i have the world series game i hope as we have tickets. will need to figure out how to get them to everyone so that we can all get in. will call-----
a little golf practice, but no playing other than 9 holes at hilltop one evening after the workers left. will decide what to do about golf really soon.
and now to put the house back together and get the rest of the shopping we need to do done and replace the furniture and stuff we threw away due to the flooded conditions.
more to say but it will have to wait. 79,707 is where i stand at the moment. less than 300 to go to hit 80k. big deal it is not i know, but another round number milestone. needing 293 miles, but also needing to taper for the race in penna. and with so much travel coming up- at least several driving trips- will be lucky to run some days. normally that would be less than 6 weeks, but would hope to hit it in about 7 weeks, putting it right around pearl harbor day, ironically i suppose.
will do some emails tomorrow if the pc is still working. the electric is back on as is the water. 2 doors and some painting to go -
the election is almost here and gone and the fate of the world awaits it. they really need another solution to the electoral college. but i digress. peace people. make sure you all vote- the vote and the boycott are two of our only tools.
Monday, October 20, 2008
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