Hard, Easy, Hard, Easy

My route along Cement City Rd. is just full of wildlife. Spring must be around the corner, because I saw a robin. He must have flown a long way, because he was really tired. And that little bugger, they really do play possum.

I felt really good today, so I did nice 2-hour run and covered close to 14-miles. Maybe I will be ready to run a marathon PR this Feb. Lot's of work ahead, though. I might look into a March race instead.

If you've been looking at my runs, you'll notice that they, generally, fall into a hard-easy-hard-easy pattern. Since I'm mainly running easy, longer runs right now, you can see that in terms of the mileage I run each day. 9 on Wednesday, 7 yesterday, 14 today. This is a lot more effective than to just go out and run the same intensity and distance everyday. You can even apply the same principle to your weekly training load, hard week, easy week, hard week, easy week. I tried the easy, easy, easy, easy method, but, it didn't produce.

Oh, and I found another cool item, a big Buck knife in a case. It looked well worn, like the pocket knife your grandpa had. Mr. Kumar sent me a nice thank you e-mail for returning his wallet. You're welcome... you humus-eating, job-stealer : ) I put a smiley face there so you know it was tongue-in-cheek.

Way to go MU Tigers!! I knew they would come back and win it. Actually, I went home and took a nap after they went down by 21. But, I woke up in time to see them win.

If you are driving down Cement City Rd. the next few weekends, SLOW DOWN! I don't want to end up as road kill with my tongue hanging out of my mouth.

I got a last minute message on one of my personals site inviting me to a Kelly Hunt concert (blues). She turned out to be a very attractive, fun, and together woman. It kind of gives you hope. She admitted that she was in a relationship (kind of) and that she was still holding out hope of one day reconciling with her ex, who ran off with her best friend last year. She was pretty traumatized by that.

The concert was great. The crowd was older, 45 - 55. You know you're getting older when you look at a grandma, and think, "Umm looking good!"