update

Hard to believe that JFL is ending Saturday. It's been a good year. All of the boys have made improvements. Cookie scored the first of what I hope are many touchdowns, and has been pretty solid as a linebacker. Soccer season is in full throe as well. The princess is becoming quite the little athlete. She's got good wheels, and she uses them on the soccer field and ball diamond.

I am officially registered for the Camargo Woolly Worm 5k, with all proceeds going to friends of music. I went out and walked/ran the course today. Great morning. good company and a good walk, interspersed with intense suffering as I ran splits.

1/2 mile corner

one half mile. roughly 800 meters. World record time for the distance is one minute and forty one seconds, give or take. It's also the distance from the west edge of my village to the first country road. It looks enticingly close at sun rise, with wisps of mist floating over the fields...the first rays of light coming up behind you. It's also now my personal marker. I've been running out and back for the past week or so. A nice quiet stretch of concrete. I've been incorporating my own mini fartleks into the end of the run, picking out landmarks and increasing speed at each one, finishing with the fatman's sprint for the last 50 yards or so....it's good and I'm masochistically starting to look forward to my runs sans doggies. They get their walks at night, but this run belongs to me alone.

back after it...

Went for a nice 30 minute walk with the knucklehead dogs this morning. They drank so much salt water from our pool last night that they both had the trotskys today...made for lots of starts and stops. Going to dust off the weights tomorrow and bang out a set.