weekend


5
Sep 15

Running five on the fifth

There was a concern in my mind, as I contemplated every American metaphor for a road, that I might eventually come to enjoy running. I’ll never be good at it. I might one day be comfortable doing it, though. And that made me uncomfortable. I know how this works. If I come to like it, I’ll want to do more of it. More running.

I realized this about four miles into a five mile run that didn’t hurt at all. I never seemed especially out of breath. It didn’t seem strenuous.

road

Not sure what metaphor goes with that, though.

I also decided there’s going to be less stuff here on weekends. We’ll all try to maintain our composure, I’m sure.


30
Aug 15

Just so you know

She wanted me to remind everyone that Catember is coming up soon. We wouldn’t want it to escape your notice that she’s going to be famous on the Internet soon. This is a very big deal.

The roads I pedaled up today were my favorite kind, a little curvy:

A nice 30 mile route today. I climber 1,303 feet today. That’s nothing, but you have to work hard to find a lot of big hills to climb around the house. And, really, I didn’t want to work that hard today.


29
Aug 15

I’d aimed for more, actually

Make fun of your writing before other people do.

The Yankee took a big swim this morning, 2.4 miles down the Chattahoochee. I’d swim that far if I had to. Escaping from the law or swimming to shore after a boating accident, but here’s the real fish:

Since she was swimming downstream I figured I would run upstream and then downstream and then back upstream to get in a nice long workout. Here are a few of the scenes:

She told me how long it would take, but then she cut 20 minutes off of her projection. Meanwhile, I was having a lousy run, so I missed her finish. Getting lightheaded midway through is no fun. I think my nutrition is off. Anyway, she finished third and got a prize:

And because she’s fierce, she ran back upstream with me. I finished with 6.5 miles, but no prize. So we had breakfast.

I had two breakfasts, in fact. Hey, I’d run a lot. That spicy pineapple marmalade was good, but the gravy biscuit at Plucked Up Chicken & Biscuits in Columbus is the best gravy biscuit I’ve ever had.

You’ll forgive me, then, if I didn’t do much with the rest of my day.


23
Aug 15

More weekend cycling pics

Scenes from a pastoral ride:

A nice view to wrap up an easy 73-mile weekend.

It was 91 one degrees at the end of the ride, but my feet felt fine in a pair of new socks:

That’s just marketing you say, and I would agree. But then I turned one of the socks inside-out, and you can see that technology.

All of your socks should look like that.


22
Aug 15

Pics from the ride

I managed to talk the sun into staying up long enough yesterday evening to get a 25 mile ride in. And then today we took a 30-mile spin.

It took me a long, long time to catch up to her for this picture:

She’s pretty fierce.