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.

Lance Armstrong....

....I'm not. I did go for a twenty minute ride on the mountain bikes with #1 son last night. Followed it up with a half hour run/walk with the dogs this morning. Still tweaking the diet...by the time meetings were done last night we ended up having dinner at 10 pm. Grilled chicken breast, cukes and a baked potatoe. I just have to figure out how to eat earlier.

mundania..

Tip of the Cardinals cap to Piers Anthony..

Went for a rather pedestrian ( heh) walk slash jog with the doggies after work. Got my wind up, dripped some sweat for a bit, but enjoyed yesterday's festivities immensely more. Tomorrow the kids come with.

new era

Yesterday, the #1 son, the princess, two mangy mutts and myself embarked on a new adventure in trying to get back into shape. We walked for two blocks, did some mountain climbers, walked two blocks, did some jumping jacks, etc. At the park, we did some modified pull ups on the monkey bars, did some speed climbs up the slide, took turns running and jumping over the painted storm tiles that serve as kids' tunnels and generally had a blast. We wrapped it up by "racing" the dogs the final block back to our house and then we did some ab work. A 30 minute moderate to medium workout, cleverly disguised as play. (and as #1 likes to point out, it's really offensive that the street department labels those poor children.) It was a blast and I highly recommend it if you're workout is in a rut. Tonight, it'll be back to a boring mile or two walk/run combination.

time flys when you're being a bfl

So..it's been a month since my last post. means it's been a month since my last run. Damn. I went about a mile and a half today...baby stepsses, my precioussss. I had no wind, my legs and feet were killing me. in other words situation normal.