| Location: Venice,FL,USA Member Since: Oct 31, 2012 Gender: Male Goal Type: Other Running Accomplishments: 5k:
21:01, (6:46 pace) 11-19-11.
20:08, (6:29 pace) 9-1-12 (Part of a Mini-Triathlon Relay).
19:17, (6:12 pace) 11-17-12.
19:19, (6:13 pace) 11-23-13.
19:30, (6:17 pace) 1-4-14.
20:34, (6:34 pace) 9-13-14
19:49, (6:23 pace) 10-25-14
19:32, (6:17 pace) 11-22-14
19:40, (6:19 pace) 12-19-14
19:49, (6:23 pace) 1-31-16
8k:
34:42, (6:57 pace) 3-17-12.
32:11, (6:28 pace) 3-16-13.
32:32, (6:33 pace) 3-15-14.
34:00, (6:50 pace) 3-14-15.
33:09, (6:40 pace) 3-11-17.
32:56, (6:38 pace) 3-17-18.
10k:
44:18, (7:08 pace) 4-14-12.
41:22, (6:39 pace) 12-15-12.
42:11, (6:47 pace) 4-13-13.
41:06, (6:37 pace) 12-8-13.
42:03, (6:46 pace) 3-5-16
44:35, (7:11 pace) 8-26-17
12k:
53:53, (7:14 pace) 3-24-12.
49:20, (6:37 pace) 3-1-14
15k:
1:18:16, (8:24 pace) 2-26-11.
1:04:37. (6:56 pace) 2-20-16
1:08:25 (7:18 pace) 2/22/20
Half Marathons:
1:37:57 (7:28 pace) 1-26-20. Fort Lauderdale - A1A
14 Marathons:
1. 4:12:08, (9:37 pace) 1-9-11. Disney.
2. 4:18:18, (9:51 pace) 10-30-11. MCM.
3. 3:42:26, (8:29 pace) 1-14-12. Charleston.
4. 3:13:15, (7:22 pace) 10-7-12. Steamtown.
5*. 3:12:26, (7:20 pace) 1-19-14. Louisiana.
6*. 3:14:06, (7:24 pace) 4-21-14. Boston.
7*. 3:19:38, (7:37 pace) 7-19-14. U. of Okoboji.
8*. 3:16:27, (7:30 pace) 2-22-15. Mercedes-Benz
9*. 3:30:38 (8:03 pace) 5-15-16 Sugarloaf
10. 3:24:21 (7:48 pace) 11-5-16 Savannah RNR
11. 3:27:37 (7:56 pace) 5-12-18 Brookings
12. 3:46:02 (8:38 pace) 10-7-18 Towpath
13. 3:35:11 (8:13 pace) 9-12-21 Med City
14. 3:45:45 (8:37 pace) 4-16-23 Coastal Delaware
* = These 5 races were run at 67.9 seconds per pound. If I want a PR, I need to weigh less than 170 pounds. Short-Term Running Goals: 2024 GOALS:
to not get fat Long-Term Running Goals: Continue running as often as I can, as far as I can, as fast as I can. Teaching my kids (by example) the rewards that come from putting in the work. Very slowly get to 50 states. Personal: I'm married, with two sons, 18, and 19.
I started running because someone dared me to.
I ran my first race 3 days after my 40th birthday. (Disney)
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| Miles: | This week: | 17.50 |
Month: | 51.70 |
Year: | 773.95 |
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| 2 on the trails. I'm still coughing a little, but it seems the worst is behind me. 51st birthday. I had to get out and do something. 70 deg.
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| 4 on the trails. Still coughing. Not as crazy as it used to be, but still annoying. 78 degrees. We might not get a winter this year.
My boys are out there somewhere:
https://youtu.be/uZi6wuvvfxg
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| 2 on the trails. Then I had massive coughing fit, so I stopped. 80 deg. 66% hum. 67 d.p.
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| 4 on the trails. perfect weather, minimal coughing. I feel like after a month, I'm finally coming out of this mess. I'd like to thank everyone in the local medical community that did exactly jack squat to fix my situation. If it's not covid, they ain't interested.
In other news, I got a sweet $100 gift card to fit2run from a relative for Christmas. So I ran today in some old Saucony rides. Am I the only guy in the world that likes Rides more than Kinvaras? The original Hokas were excellent for a heel striker like me. And even though they were expensive, you could run in those things for like 1,000 miles. The newer Hokas seem to go flat much sooner. So I think I'm going to go in a non-hoka direction this time around. I'll keep going through old shoes for a while.
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| 4 on the trails. The weatherman says it was 47 degrees when I started but I don't believe it. No coughing. Not many folks on the trails. Good running, but I really needed to think some things out, parenting-wise. So it was great for that.
9:02 PM. Rocket launch at Cape Canaveral across the state. We could see it from here. It was a clear night.
https://youtu.be/cZPFp_RgJLI
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| 4 on the trails. 2 days in a row? Look out for this guy!
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| 4 on the trails. 52 degrees.
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| 4 on the trails.
Since Meatloaf died, I was thinking about Paradise By The Dashboard Light. It is definitely one of those songs that goes on way too long. After about a minute of it, I think "Okay that's enough." I feel the same way about Piano Man and The Day The Music Died, and maybe a little to Knockin' On Heaven's Door.
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| 4 on the trails. Had 2 songs stuck in my head. Helmet's Turned out, and Howard Jones' No One Is To Blame. What an odd combination.
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| 7.5 miles hood route. Longest run since November. It was slow but smooth. 50 degrees, and misty. Everything was wet, even though there was no rain. Stone Temple Pilot's Big Bang Baby was stuck in my head.
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| 4 on the trails. 43 degrees. That's see your breath weather! So I wore a ski cap (Or Touque, for my Canadian friends). After 2 miles, I was sweating out of the thing, and I felt silly about it. But I also really hate having cold ears.
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| 4 on the trails. 8 days of running. 54 degrees.
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| 4 more on the trails. kind of overcast. I'm going to a service for this guy tonight Michael Raymond Giampino Obituary - Daily Record.
He was a good guy and a local runner that I used to compete against in several races. We weren't good friends or anything. But I have talked to him after many races. My mom probably talked to him more than me, due to his involvment with their church. At least once this happened; she told him on a Sunday, that I was bummed out that he beat me in a race Saturday.
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| 4 on the trails. kind of an overcast day, and that has definitely had an impact on my outlook.
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| 4 on the trails. 51 degrees. 51% hum. 34 d.p. 23 mph winds. This does not feel like normal outside. It is supposed to get down to 36 degrees tomorrow morning. The coldest it has been here since 2018.
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| 4 on the trails. People need to control their dogs.
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| 4 on the trails.
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| 4 on the trails. I'm spending a lot more time looking forward to this year's snowboard trip in spring break. I can't wait to try this again with my boys.
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| 4 on the trails.
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| 4 on the trails. Back to summer. 81 degrees.
Lots of turkey vulture activity out there today. Wasn't there a dude on the blog that had a title of "the buzzards are circlin'"? or something like that?
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| There was an all-day Surf and skimboard competition at North Jetty that John was at. I went for a run during the morning part of that event. They had the awards on the island of Venice and after I dropped John off I remembered that this is a circus town. I pulled up at an intersection and the car next to me was full of clowns. Literal clowns. Red ball noses Etc. Besides every other thing around here being named Ringling you forget how much circus history is in this place. | |
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| Am. 2 on the trails. Procrastinated myself out of a good run. Pm. 3 on legacy trail while John was at his music lesson. Because I felt guilty about this morning. | |
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| procrastinated again. dang it.
noon 3 more on the trials
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| 4 on the trails
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| 4 on the trails. Multiple emergency bathrooms stops. Besides that, the running was great.
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| 4 on the trails. I also started doing some core work a few days ago, in preparation for the upcoming snowboard trip. If you've seen a guy struggle to get up after strapping in his back boot after he gets off the lift, you know it is really embarrassing. I don't want to look like a turtle trapped on my back, trying to get up on my feet out there.
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| 3.5 miles hood route. then 1 on the trails.
First 30 mile week this year? Whoa. Worse than that. It's only my 2nd 30 mile week since I ran MedCity last Sept. 12! Wow, I am off track!
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| 4 on the trails.
I forgot to mention something notable that happened on yesterday's run. There's a woman that lives on my my street. She looks to be early 60's, and does all of her yardwork in a bikini. The boys and I refer to her as "Bikini Lady." She cuts her grass in flip flops and a bikini. Pressure washes her driveway in a bikini. Is on a ladder cleaning her gutters in a bikini. Goes on bike rides in a bikini. One time we were driving by, and she was on top of a ladder in the back of a pickup truck, with a pole saw, pruning trees in a bikini. I guess I'm more concerned from a OSHA standard than anything. So back to yesterday - Behind her house next to the sidewalk that starts my hood route runs is a shadow box fence - the kind that if you look right at it you can't see through, but on a 45 degree angle, the fence is useless. So as I was running by she was walking around her pool completely naked. I don't think I've ever seen a naked person while I was out running before. But I started thinking that at least she wears the bikini in the front yard. Today starts consectutive runs without seeing naked people. Today is 1.
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| 4 on the trails with extras like pushups and stuff. Everyone I saw was fully clothed today. Although it was 52 degrees and windy. The non-streak streak continues at 2.
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| 4 on the trails. | |
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| 4 on the trails with extras
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| 4 more. getting warm outside again. 75 degrees. 84% hum. 69 d.p.
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| 4 on the trails with "extras." Super hot and foggy out there. I had this running through my head....
https://youtu.be/j9xAN6a1HKU
long story.
Also, current running streak started Jan 18th. 1 month of running. I don't feel any faster, or healthier, but I guess that's something. I've proven that I am capapble of running every day. I need to step up the distance and intensity.
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 7.75 | 0.00 | 7.75 |
| 7.75 miles. Hood route to Legacy Trail over the SWOM bridge and back. 71 deg., 85% hum., 66 d.p. It's been a while since I ran over a hill or bridge. I had this stuck in my head: https://youtu.be/U0KtopjUIUk Just the music. Not the words.
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| 5 on the trails plus "extras"
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| 7.75 miles. Hood route to Legacy Trail over the SWOM bridge and back. 75 deg., 67% hum., 61 d.p.
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| 4 on the trails plus "extras". ugly humid. I saw a huge turtle crossing the soccer field parking lot.
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| 4 on the trails
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| 4 on the trails
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| Broken up 2 runs. | |
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| 10.2 miles. Hood route to Legacy Trail to Colonia and back. Slow and steady | |
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| 6 on the trails.
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| 4 on the trails plus "extras"
There is a czech guy that has been crushing it on the pushup station out there.
When I wasn't catching up with neighbors, I was thinking of this little gem: https://youtu.be/fBETsi6Bf-g
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| 4 on the trails plus (8) x 100m+ grass strides, with jogs back (2 per lap). Trying to run faster has to start somewhere, and this is it. I know I will feel this tomorrow.
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| 4 on the trails plus (8) x 100m+ grass strides, with jogs back (2 per lap). Plus "extras".
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| first day of missed running since Jan 18th.
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| 4 on the trails.
So I have this situation.- Maybe someone on this Utah-centric blog can help me out with this. We have been planning another family snowboard trip to Park City for a long time. We fly out 3/15. We fly back 3/21 (We land back in Tampa at midnight!). Since we planned the trip, my youngest (John) has done very well in performing a musical piece on a 4 valve Euphonium. Specifically this one:
https://youtu.be/wRUETWKxLT4
He has done so well that he was invited to compete in the state competition in Fort Pierce (other side of the state) on 3/22. That's right, we land at midnight 3/21, drive home to Venice by 2 am-ish, then load him on a bus to Fort Pierce on 3/22 at 7 in the morning. This is a big deal for a freshman. I'm proud of my boy for choosing such a difficult piece, and doing so well. But I look ahead to state's, and he's going to do this coming off a week with no practice? Not a recipe for success.
We have looked at all of the options for flying out and back with a Euphonium, and those are all pretty much out because we can not keep the horn safe loading on the plane. This leaves us with a short term rental for the horn while we are there.
So, does anyone have access to a horn, or a location I can have my son play a horn, for an hour a day from 3/15 to 3/21, within a reasonable distance from Park City? Or advice for what to do?
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| 4 on the trails. | |
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| 4 on the trails plus extras. | |
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| Wow. This state trooper is amazing.
FHP trooper Toni Schuck saves runners on Sunshine Skyway Bridge with crash (heraldtribune.com)
People are crazy.
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| 5 on the trails plus "extras"
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| 5 on the trails.
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| 5 on the trails. hot and humid. 81 deg. 80% hum. 74 d.p.
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| 5 on the trails
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| 4 on the trails. I spent a lot of time talking to the shirtless tire dragger. My mind is really far from running this week. I am so stoked about snowboarding next week,I am having trouble thinking of anything else. | |
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| 4 on the trails plus "extras." Afternoon run while the kids were surfing. Dad's 81 today. So kind of a big deal over here. | |
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| 4 on the trails
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| 4 on the trails. Everything is covered in pollen around here at this time of year. I have a pain in the neck from sleeping on the plane(s). 80 degrees. 54% hum.?! 64 d.p.?!
What a week. Everything went smoothly for our park city snowboarding trip. Day of travel. 5 days of bombing the mountain. Day of travel. My sons became pretty decent at getting down the mountain safely, in various weather / snow conditions. We even got snow fall on some of the days. I had a great time with my brother. Wow do I miss that dude. Everything went great with the horn rental, and Johnny practiced daily. I don't have a lot of non-snowboard related stories from this trip. There was no sight seeing- we were really just there to get down the mountain as many times as possible, and I think we did well. The only downside was the travel home. Our Monday flights were cancelled on Sunday afternoon. Spouse did an extensive amount of work to get us home Monday. Left Salt Lake City at noon. To Denver, Milwaukee, and then to Fort Myers (not Tampa) at 10:45 pm. (This, I'm sure, represents the largest amount of time I have spent wearing a mask.) Slept a lot on the plane, but I am still messed up time wise.
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| 4 on the trails. Light rain this morning, so the pollen wasn't as bad today.
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| 4 on the trails.
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| 1 on the trails. Then a couple of hours later, 4 on the trails. This pollen is really messing with my sinuses. | |
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| 4 on the trails
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| 4 on the trails
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| 4 on the trails.
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| 4 on the trails. Threat of rain the entire run, but no rain. So I had the place to myself. I was free to do all of the old man grunting that I wanted.
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| 4 on the trails.
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| 4 on the trails. | |
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| 5 on the trails.
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| 7.75 miles. Hood route to legacy trail over SWOM bridge and back. Slumpbuster run.
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| 1 trails + 3.5 hood + 2 trails. 83 deg. 83% hum. 77 d.p. yucko.
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| 4 on the trails. Work time is creeping up again, and cutting into running time.
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| 4 more on the trails. Low Hum. Low d.p. Somehow I got Citizen Cope in my head the other day. I haven't thought of that guy in years. So it was like a Citizen Cope medley out there. Most of his stuff is slow and bluesy, so the pace was really slow. Also, we're going to the east coast this weekend to see my niece in a play. Should be a good time.
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| 4 on the trails. If I get injured running someday, I'll bet it's from one of those instinctive cut backs, borderline gravity defying moves I make, when seeing a snake, but before it registers that the snake is non-poisonous, that would make Barry Sanders proud.
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| 4 on the trails. back in a rut.
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| 3 on the trails. then 4 on the trails.
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| 4 on the trails. Sometimes I get neck pain when I'm stressed. I'm stressed.
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| 1 on the trails. 5.5 miles hood route. 1 on the trails.
So, when I was out running, my dad was out walking. I see him sometimes out there, but not today. He was doing a route around the baseball fields at wellfield park. The senior men's softball team was having practice. They called my dad over and asked him if he wanted to play next season. They said that there was only one week left in this season, but he could get on board for next season. They said that they have seen him out walking before, that he seems to be in good shape, and obviously likes baseball. My dad was beaming when he told me this story. He's 81. I asked him when he wanted me to pitch to him in the cages.
That feeling when you're a kid, and you're watching some other kids play something, and then they invite you to join? That never stops being an awesome feeling.
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| 7.75 Mi. Hood route to Legacy Trail over the SWOM bridge and back. | |
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| 4 on the trials. Every Easter, after eating brunch with my parents, I go for a run. It's a horrible idea, and I never learn.
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| 4 on the trails.
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| 4 on the trails. Boston was yesterday? How did I miss that?
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| 4 on the trails. This was a lot of effort today for some reason.
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| 5.5 miles. hood route. 1st run in new Saucony Rides. I was really due for new shoes.
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| 5 on the trails. Last night's barbecue bash made this run tougher than it should have been. | |
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| 4 on the trails. I've been sick again. But I had to run anyway. I don't get it. It gas been so infrequent that I have been sick over the last 10 years, that the fact that I have been sick 4 times since mid September is kind of ticking me off. | |
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| Went out to run. 200 yards in I had a huge coughing fit. I turned around and went home.
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| 4 ugly miles on the trails at noon.
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| not as easy as yesterday.
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| back to the trails.
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| 4 on the trails.
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| 4 on the trails.
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| 1 on the trails. Then 5.5 miles hood route. Now off to Orlando to see Tony Monaco in concert. Wait, what? | |
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| 4 on the trails. 3:30 PM. The biggest bobcat I've ever seen jumped out 10' in front of me on lap 3. Very scary. The concert we saw in Orlando last night is already on YouTube. https://youtu.be/yKVrjo8hH5w | |
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| 4 on the trails
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| early-ish trails
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| 4 on the trails. I came home soaked. 81 deg. 80% hum. 74 d.p. Yep, it's summer.
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| 10.2 miles. Hood route to legacy to Colonia and back. 9 am start. 84 deg. 71% hum. 73 d.p.
Last week they had the end of the year banquets for the kids' school activities. There was a picture of our table at one of these events on facebook. I look awfully jowly and doughy in that picture. I have to assume that is what other people see when they see me.
So, 10.2 miles in the sun today.
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| 2 on the trails. Then 7.75 miles. Hood route to legacy trail over the SWOM bridge and back in 84 deg., 76% hum., 75 d.p.
28 years married today.
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| 4 on the trails.
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| 4 on the trails. Yesterday's trip to Lead Foot City®, The Place for All Things Automotive.® was a step in the wrong direction, training-wise. And I'm feeling the bad diet today. Totally worth it though.
PM: surprise 4 more miles on the trails. Brutal heat. | |
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| ran 2 on the trails. got dizzy and went home.
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| am: 3 on the trails.
then 2 hours of phone meetings.
am2: 4 on the trails.
It rained hard last night. The smell of wet pine needles on the paths is amazing.
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| 5 on thetrails. Then I saw my dad out for a walk, and I walked with him for a bit, then ran home. Out on the trails, I ran into a friend of mine, that told me he saw my kid acting up, doing stupid teenage stuff. It's a small town. It was a smaller town for me to grow up in, so news got back to my folks very fast. But now it's a small town with video cameras everywhere, that makes impulsive teenage decisions very hard to bounce back from. So, I have to have a talk with my kid when he gets home from school that I'm not looking forward to.
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| 4 on the trails. Yesterday's talk went well. Before you have kids, you think "My kid will never.... ", like you have some control, ultimately. You have influence, but someday they are going to leave, and you've got to hope they make smart decisions. You really don't have that much control. They are going to do what they are going to do. And if they are teenage boys, it's going to be stupid.
I don't mean to be so cryptic. Word got back to me that my kid was doing burnouts in the McDonald's parking lot. Stupid. For a truck we bought a month ago. Stupider. At the McDonalds where he works. Are-you-kidding-me Stupid. On tires we just got for close to $1,000. Now that's just insultingly Stupid.
How do you start a conversation like that?
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| 4 on the trails. Now taking the jonboat out with spouse. | |
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| 1 on the trails. I got really distracted talking to folks.
then all day on the jonboat with boy #2.
Then 5 on the trails.
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| 6 on the trails. 6:30 pm start. | |
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| 7.5 miles. hood route to legacy trail and back. I move a lot faster on the sidewalks. I need to get off the trails. I've been thinking about Chicago's "Beginnings" while running lately. https://youtu.be/lI-BMDnti4c
Lots of construction going on out there today. Also, I found a small baseball bat while running so I picked it up and took it home from about 1.25 miles to go. I was the guy running with a bat today.
Then, when I got home I dropped off boy #2 at the boat ramp with his friend, and they took out the jonboat for 3 hours. His first time out there without me. By all accounts, everything went fine. They would have stayed out there longer, but a storm was coming. Kids showing common sense - Feels like I've already won the day.
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| 7.75 miles. hood route tolegacy trail over the SWOM bridge and back. 9:30 am start.
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| 10.2 miles. Hood route to legacy trail to colonia and back. pretty snappy pace, very smooth running today. 80 deg., 81% hum., 74 d.p.
I had a diverse playlist of songs that run through my head while I'm out there. Today was: The National Anthem by Radiohead, Closet Freak by Cee Lo, and The Underdog by Spoon. I guess the theme was cool and funky backing horn sounds.
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| 7.75 miles. Hood Route to legacy trail over SWOM bridge and back. 82 deg., 72% hum., 72 d.p.
I had to make an emergency bathroom stop @ 2.5 miles in at a contruction site POP on the north side of Laurel road. After that I ran on the north side of laurel road for a bit. The people with houses backing up to laurel road on the north side have a bunch of jasmine along their back fences. My whole (12 year?) running career, I have been running on the south side of laurel road. On the south side of laurel road there are 3 wastewater lift stations. The difference in fragrance from one side of the road to another is striking.
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| on the trails. 87 deg. 73% hum., 76 d.p. steamy
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| 7.75 miles. Hood route to legacy trail over the SWOM and back. So much construction trucks parked on the sidewalks made me switch up directions on the way home. 86 deg. 73% hum., 76 d.p. I'm soaked.
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| 7.75 miles. Hood route to legacy trail over the SWOM and back. More construction today. All routes have problems. 84 deg. 74% hum., 75 d.p.
About 100 yards into the run, a homeless couple were screaming profanities at each other in the middle of the sidewalk I was running on. I saw this coming and I decided to just cross the street and run on the non-sidewalked side of the street. Conflict avoidance. You would think the way I write about the homeless population here, that we have a problem like Venice CA. There's really not that many homeless here. They just like to have really loud arguments where I run.
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| 5 on the trails at noon. 86 deg., 72% hum., 76 d.p., "feels like" 98. Most of my thoughts were about a project at work. I didn't really notice the heat until I stopped moving.
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| 7.5 miles. 4 on the trails. Then 3.5 miles. Hood route. I started on the trails because I had duck eggs for breakfast for the first time, and it kind of made me feel queasy and tired. First week of 40+ miles this year. I'm glad, but that's poor performance for me. | |
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| 1.5 miles hood route + 2 on the trails with bathroom stop + 5.5 miles hood route = 9 miles. 87 deg., 66% hum., 75 d.p.
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| slugged out 4 miles on the trails at 4 pm.
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| 7.75 miles. Hood route to legacy trail over the SWOM and back. 11:45 am start. "Feels like" 103!
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| 1 on the trails, 5.5 miles, hood route, 1 on the trails. 87 deg., 72% hum., 76 d.p., "feels like" 97.
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| On the trails. | |
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| 4 on The trails. So many snakes! | |
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| 4 on the trails at noon. no snakes.
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| 3 on the trails then 3.5 hood route. 10 am start.
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| 10.2 Miles. hood route to legacy trail to Colonia and back. 9 am start. I didn't intend to run that far. But when I got out there, everything felt right, so I just kept going. Very smooth miles today. It makes no sense. My diet was garbage last night. It is summer in Florida. I have no idea why this run felt good.
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| 3 on the trails. I just couldn't get it going today. But on the run - The county employees were spreading manure across the top 2 inches or so of the soccer fields. When I went around the corner to where the fields are, the smell was striking and overwhelming. So on my next lap, I was coming up on this couple I have seen out there walking many times, but I have never heard their voices. So I said - "Hey that smell is not me. It's the manure out there. Ha Ha." And the guy responds with the most Boston accent I have ever heard - "Nah. Dat's bahbcaht whizz." And then goes on to explain the fragrance differences between an entire soccer field, covered in manure, and "bahbcaht whizz." And then weirdly got kind of mad at me when I told him I thought it was the manure. He really wanted me to accept his expertise on this subject matter.
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| 4on the trails. I talked to the shirtless tire dragger for a bit.
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| 5 sand sunrise miles on Daytona Beach at sunrise. North from the main street pier and back. Nice hard packed sand. Like, they drive on it! | |
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| 5 more on the beach. Like yesterday, but an hour later start. That was noticeable. | |
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| 4 on the trails at noon.
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| on the trails
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| trails
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| on the trails. 85 deg., 69% hum., 74 d.p.
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| trails. stupid hot. 88 deg., 74% hum., 78 d.p., "feels like" 102
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| 5 on the trails. 7 pm start. | |
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| 6 on the trails. 2 in the morning 4 in the evening. All of them at more than 90 degrees. Yucko. | |
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| on the evening trails. more snakes than I have seen on any run.
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| 4 on the trails. Oppressive heat. As soon as I finished, it rained. | |
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| trails. Faster than usual. I had this stuck in my head: https://youtu.be/Ly1WweGg2eA
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| trails. slow. hot.
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| 5 on the trails.
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| 1 on the trails. andthen I thought "what am I doing? Didn't I just say I was done with slow trails?" So, as I was exiting the trails, I ran into the shirtless tire dragger. I talked to him for about 20 minutes. It's been a while. Then I ran 5.5 miles, hood route. Very much faster pace than what I usually run the trails.
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| 7.5 miles. hood route to legacy trail and back. yeah, it was miseraable, but I've run in worse. Those brief moments in the shade were not completely awful.
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| 4 on the trails 12:30 start. it was warm.
6:30 pm. new experiment. treadmill running. 3.9 miles. treadmill shut off after 35 minutes. I did not know that was a thing. lessons learned: 1. After 30 minutes, jump on next treadmill. Mop up both treadmills after an hour. 2. 8:57 pace on a treadmill is really smooth, and not at all like 8:57 pace outside. 3. bring a towel. 4. Schedule running time when a specialized workout class is not taking place. They were very distracting.
I could see incorporating more treadmill stuff in my future.
Also my sons took thier first road trip without their parents today. They drove 3 hours to Fort Lauderdale (across alligator alley) to hang out with their cousins for a half a week. Before school starts next week. I'm not the most overprotective dad, but this one got to me a bit. I was nervous.
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| 10 am 4 on the trails
3+3 = 6 on the treadmill at 7:30 pm.
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| 8:30 am start. Hood route to legacy trail over the SWOM bridge and back. Hot and also hot. | |
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| 5 on the trails after heavy rain. Like bonus gravity. | |
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| trails. Hot.
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| 6 on the trails. A lot of deep thinking out there.
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| 4 on the trails
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| 6 on the trails. For some reason, I had the Laverne and Shirley theme song stuck in my head the whole time. That's got to be some kind of weirdness record. | |
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| 6 on the trails. right before the storm.
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| 1 on the trails. Then 7.75 miles hood route to legacy trail over SWOM bridge and back.
Very tough run. Steaming. Like the road was super hot and then it rained, and steam came up. Then things got cloudy @ 3 miles deep, and I got overly ambitious. The clouds were gone for the entire run home. Again, I would guess that I am 20 sec / mile faster in the shade. Creed's "my own prison" stuck in my head? mmmkay.
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| 5 on the trails. Going to key west tomorrow with spouse. This thing has been here for years, and I've never done it.... Key West Express Official Page
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| 4 on the trails. Great trip to Key West.
When I got home my brother was in the hospital. He's out now, but yesterday was weird for sure.
Every now and then, I think that Venice is moving towards a younger demographic. Then yesterday, I had to spend a bit longer than usual at the local election site. That's a friendly reminder that the median age in this town is 69. Everyone is just shuffling towards oblivion.
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| 5 miles. Shirtless. It's been a while.
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| 4 on the trails in the blazing inferno. I may have a food hangover from last night. We went to a new restaurant in Osprey. Home - Deep Lagoon Seafood The food was good, but I'm feeling it today.
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| 7 on the trails in the evening. Some form of rain the whole time. Crickets were deafening by the end of it. It's my big brother's 55th birthday today. We had cracker barrel for lunch. | |
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| 4 on the trails at noon.
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| 7 on the trails. 86 deg., 84% hum.., 80 d.p. Maybe the most soaked I have been on a run, where it wasn't raining. Shoes making squishy noises. Good times!
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| 6 on the trails. not as bad weather as yesterday, but still rough. I was "lucky" enough to be running the trails at the same time as a mom's club outing. 4 moms 10 kids 2 dogs couple of strollers. I'm trying to run a narrow trail, and they're hearding cats, and stopping for group photos. I get it, but I was in no mood for this. Oh well.
We're down to 44 of us, updating every month on here.
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| 4 on the trails.
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| 4 on the trails. I talked way too long to the shirtless tire dragger this morning.
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| 1 on the trails. Then 3.5 miles hood route. | |
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| on the trails at noonish
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| 4 on the trails. Then it got crowded out there. 1.5 hood route.
So, non-running thing that has taken over my life-
I have had a drainage problem in the street in front of my house for years. I have patiently swept out the gutter after every rainfall or whenever my neighbor on the one side of my house runs her sprinklers, which is like constantly. About a year ago, I filed a complaint with the city, they sent out 3 trucks, 10 guys, surveyed the problem and left. So I complained again, and again, and again. Some of my neighbors got involved with the complaining, because some of my other neighbors have taken to driving as fast as they can through my "moat", thereby splashing water onto my cars in the diveway. Total jerk move. you can see that the standing water has damaged the concrete curb, the asphalt road, and that there is a layer of slippery algae, even when the water is swept out. My one neighbor wrote a letter to the mayor about this with pictures and explanations of the safety hazzard.
So today there is a crew out in front of my house sawing concrete and jack hammering. I went out on my run happy that this will finally be over. There are 2 humps in the pavement caused by tree roots that are holding back water. They are only removing one of them. I talked to the contractor and pointed and showed him that there will be standing water at the end of my driveway. He said he was doing what he was instructed to do by the city. I said "but you would only have to takeout another 10 feet of curb, and this will be over." He said we'll see if this drains. I said it absolutely will not. You can see the standing water on the other side, right now, as we are talking. It will not drain, and at the end of all this today, I will still have a "moat" that my neighbors can race through at great speed and splash mud on my cars. So I then called the city, and left a very polite message. I thought I had hung up. But I did not. I left a 9 minute profanity filled rant that I wish I could take back.
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| 2 on the trails. too many unleashed dog walkers out there. So I took it to the 3.5 miles hood route. Dishwasher conditions.
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| 4.5 on the trails. The weather was slightly better this morning. I had some digestive issues out there, and had to stop.
It took a long time, but the moat drained. It's still slimy and cracked curb and asphalt, and it drained way too slow, but it drained. I was wrong.
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| 4 on the trails. A lady that couldn't control her large dogs (that were taking up the entire trail width) told me to "chill out" when I passed her on the far side of the trail with my hands high in the air.
You know, with all of the tributes to the Queen going on lately, my favorite memory of her is when she threw out the first pitrch at that Angels - Mariners game back in '88. You know, when Enrico Pallazzo sang the national an then and then was ump.
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| 3 on the trails, then 3.5 hood route. I came home soaked. Song of the run: https://youtu.be/z6R4DDuno5o
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| 4 on the trails. Weather was better somehow. Pace was faster.
So, tonight a football team from Baltimore comes down to Venice, FL to play and the game will be on ESPN, I hear. Venice is predicted to be humiliated. We are in the season where it has been raining every evening. Who knows? Maybe it will be rained out.
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| 2 on the trails. I talked to the shirtless tire dragger for a while. I guess he has an obstacle course race in Vermont coming up. Also he wants me to run a 5k with him in 2 weeks. I told him I am nowhere near race fit. He says he can get me in free. I don't know. Then 3.5 miles hood route.
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| on the trails. talked to the shirtless tire dragger way too long about hurricane prepping, etc.
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| I'm okay. All my people are okay. My parents and I sustained very minor damage to our homes. My mother in law stayed with us. Her house got 12" water inside. No power. Gas and propane are very hard to come by. It's been crazy, but I feel very lucky. | |
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| 1st run since the storm. I was hoping the trails would be cleared and that I could have a run I expected to be ugly in private. The trails were not cleared, and at one point became impassible (fallen trees, washed out areas, etc.). So this ended up as 1.5 on the trails, then 2.5 on a modified hood route, including a chunk of edmonson road. I've been busy with post hurricane stuff, but that is not what has kept me from running. A hurricane related injury got me.
The thing with living down the street from my elderly parents is, my dad is constantly trying to prove to everyone that he is not elderly. So I have to anticiate the death defying moves this guy is about to do. Do those things myself before he can get to them, usually with him complaining that I "don't need to do that" the entire time that I totally need to do that. For example, I have to always be aware if his trees require pruning soon. Otherewise, my mom will call me up and tell me there's an 81 year old on a ladder running a pole saw in the back yard. There is a lot of work setting up for, and breaking down from a hurricane. And I live in a city of olds. There are people outside of my family that need help. I (well, me and my boys) have to put up the hurricane shutters for these widows that have no one else around to help them.
My parents have a killer hurricane prep system - corrugated aluminum panels held in with wing nuts. Well, as I was racing through the breakdown of my parents hurricane, I tripped over something, stubbing toes on both feet somehow, and falling down hard on my knee on concrete. I thought for sure I broke my big toe. But so far, it is just a blue toenail. But I can't help thinking that I was going too fast, that I have to move the panels around to the front of the house before my dad tries to. That's what ultimately led to the fall.
My mom insisted that I sit down. Because old man skin is weak, and my dad will not stop doing things, she is like a wound care center at this point in her life. She has lots of cleaning and bangdaging related items around the house. She insisted that she treat my bleeding knee. I was transported in time to when I was ten and my mom was bandaging my knee. I almost cried.
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| 1 on the trails. 3.5 hood route. I talked to the shirtless tire dragger for a while. I have been really sick for like 10 days. This is my first run back from that.
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| 3 on the trails. 85 degrees. 76% hum. 75dp
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| 3 on the trails. 86 degrees. 68% hum. 74dp. feels like 95!
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| 3 on the trails. 85 deg., 67% hum., 72 d.p.
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| 3 on the trails. 79 deg., 85% hum., 69 d.p.
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| Hood route
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 2.00 | 0.00 | 2.00 |
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| trails. hot.
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| trails. 80 deg.
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| trails.
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| 3 on the trails. in the rain. wind. had the trails to myself.
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| Trails. Hot.
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| After a very long day of digging hurricane Ian replacement fence posts, and setting them in concrete, I went out just before sunset. 2 on the trails before it got too dark. Then 1.5 miles hood route. | |
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| on the trails
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 4.00 | 0.00 | 4.00 |
| 4 on the trails. 1st run in less than 70 degree weather in who knows how long?
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| 4 on the trails. I set my alarm and saw the 1:45 am launch from across the state. I'm a 3+ hour drive from Kennedy space center, and I could still see the 2 solid rocket boosters fall off. Crazy. | |
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| 3 on the trails | |
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| 4 on the trails. 64 deg., 48% hum., 43 d.p. I do not recognize these weather conditions.
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| 4 on the trails. 61 deg., 50% hum., 42 d.p.
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| 4 on the trails. In the afternoon my dad went back to the hospital. Venice hospital did not have adequate beds, so they had to ship him to sarasota. They called for transport @ 4pm. transport arrived at 12:40 am. At which point, we could not visit him at sarasota. They are very strict about visiting hours. The point is, the unraveling situation that took place between 4 and 12:40 are some of the darkest moments I can remember. It was a bad night. | |
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| 2 on the trails in the cold November rain. | |
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| 5 on the trails
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 3.00 | 0.00 | 3.00 |
| 3 on the trails. 72 deg., 94% hum., 71 d.p.
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| 3 on the trails. They are releasing dad from the hospital today. Good news that he is healthy enough to go. Bad news is that home care is about to move from part time to full time for my mom, my brothers, and me. This is not the guy I've known my whole life. Everyone around me is sad about the decline, and they have cried a lot. I'm not sad. I haven't cried once, not even in private. I'm angry. | |
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| 3 on the trails. | |
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| Streak ended today. | |
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| So, we're NOT talking about he battle for 4th place at the Troy, NY Turkey Trot?
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| 3 on the trails. As I was approaching a couple walking their unleashed dog, I slowed down to kind of assess the situation. They said "Oh, are you afraid of dogs?"
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| 4 on the trails. shirtless tire dragger was run ning on the other side of the creek, but he was headphoned up, so he couldn't hear me.
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| 4 on the trails.
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| 4 on the trails, apparently during a tornado warning. I thought it was just hot breeze. Nobody out there.
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| 3 on the trails. Cooler Temps today. What a week. Concerts, performances, kid#2 getting drivers license, state Championship football game, mother in law's birthday (her house is still hurricane damaged and she is still here), lots of work at my job, getting Christmas set up. | |
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| | Slow miles | Fast miles | Total Distance | | 4.00 | 0.00 | 4.00 |
| 4 on the trails. Great weather this morning. | |
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| 3 on the trails. Spent too much time talking to the shirtless tire dragger. | |
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| 2 on the trails. Just didn't have it this morning. Although, I am happy with the earlier run time. Post hurricane- pre Christmas in Florida. All day, the sounds of hammering and Spanish music and conversations on rooftops, echoing through the air. It honestly makes me smile. | |
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| 4 on the trails in my new $30 Christmas running shoes. I'm not a good enough runner to deserve nice shoes. | |
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| 4 on the trails. My head was filled with old PJ Harvey songs.
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| 3 on the trails at noon.
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| 3 on the trails
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| 3 on the trails.1,051 for the year is kind of a low number for me. Yes, a lot of non running distractions happened in 2022. But I could have had much more discipline, even with my really flexible schedule. In 2023 I think I'm going to take a look at the St Patty's Day race. An 8k is a good enough distance to train for between now and then. We'll see how I do in that one, and go from there. | |
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