1:48:47 (57:03/51:44). Much better ... I got out early and finished by the time I had started yesterday. It was still warm at the end, but I was running pretty easy until the last few miles so it felt pretty good. Allie, you can have about 20F of this though ;-) (about 83-85F at the end of my run - felt hotter in the sun). Bad bad socks rubbed a huge blister/sore over my ankle ... ouch.
Ok ... warning. First I am going to discuss something gross, and then I am going to say something not so nice about someone - well, about their job. I apologize in advance. So, the gross. For about a week my cat, Titus, has been very pleased with us. So much so that he brings us at least one, and average of two, "treats" per day. Mainly lizards (the largest one being over 6 inches without a tail) but twice last week he brought us ground squirrels (one very large -- about 5x the size of field mouse). Dean (it is his job), picks them up, puts them in a baggy, and throws them out. It has been so hot out that our garage must average about 120F during the day ... and the garbage can has begun to smell. I swear I can smell it in the house. I just don't know what to do. Yesterday I went out and sprinkled this smelly kitty litter baking powder stuff all over the top of the garbage can and then put a bunch of open containers of baking soda all over the place in the garage ... it "kind of" works. I am afraid that in the future we are going to have to pick up the "treats" from Titus and put them in the freezer until trash day ... any other suggestions? Second, I really try not to say anything negative about people ("...if you don't have anything nice to say then don't say anything") -- but this is not really about HER exactly, more about her ability to do her job. Yesterday was live NCAA track and field on TV. Have I mentioned before how horrid the news commentators are here in the US? Seriously, they are awful. Last week Jenny Barringer ran a USA Collegiate record in the 1500 -- she demolished the old record by 6.29 seconds -- the announcers did not even know it!!! She almost beat the current WORLD LEADER in the 1500 -- their final times were milliseconds from each other! it was an big big thing. Granted Dean and I read Track and Field News faithfully, but still -- these are supposed to be knowledgeable news people, come on! But, the worst -- very worst -- of them all is Carol Lewis. She is absolutely, without a doubt, one of the least informed sports people ever. Just because she is Carl Lewis's sister (and a long-jump champion) does not mean she is a good commentator -- and truly she seems to say things that are just plain wrong. Yesterday (and this is not the worst thing I have ever heard her say) during the women's 4x400 relay she says, "... yes, you know you don't always want to have such a big lead going into the last 400"... Excuse me? When EVER would it be better not to have as much of a lead as possible at ANY of the hand-offs? whew. The positive is that this is weekend number 3 -- in a row!!-- of track on TV. One more week until the USATF championships! YEA. It is better to have miserable commentators than no track coverage at all. sorry for the gripe. Happy weekend bloggers.
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