I just finished week #5 of marathon training that ended with a 10 mile long run, the 1st double digit run in this training program. I simply don’t remember getting here. I know I’ve averaged about 1 missed run a week for the last couple of weeks, but I’ve been running for 5 weeks now and don’t really remember my runs. I do keep a running journal and every single run has been logged, but without actually looking through the journal, I just don’t remember most of what I’ve run so far. Should I be worried about this?
Anyway, I purposely postponed my long run until this afternoon because the weather man promised me rain. I think I felt something equivalent to a spit somewhere along my 10 mile route. Needless to say, the rain never came, at least not in my ‘hood, but the weather was pleasant…just warm, not hot, overcast, and there was a cool breeze, no really there was! 
The womens marathon even has already started at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, China.
Lumpy will attempt to live blog the event this evening, keeping our dear readers informed. Yes, I’m going to watch the whole thing.
Start:
-00:14:22 Just catching up with the status now. Appearantly it is a nearly pancake flat course. Deena Kastor was just talking about the cooling vest they wear before the race. I think we need some of them.
-00:16:13 Evidently the temperature is good, but there are big concerns about the high humidity. Doing a 3.1 mile look around the Temple of Heaven.
commercial break…
-00:19:06 OMG! Deena Kastor just dropped out of the race, holding her foot!!! Nope hope for a US medal now. How horrible for her.
-00:23:35 You know, this course is strange. The blue tangent line is way too close to barricades. Paula Radcliff is in it. Evidently she wasn’t originally expected to compete due to all the training she missed.
-00:28:07 77F 88% Humidity. BAH! They have SPONGES!!!
-00:48:57 Evidently the pace is slow. I’m rooting for Paula at this point. She deserves it after what happened in Athens.
-00:53:24 Wow. Fascinating. They have “computer chips” to track their times. Who would have thought of such a device?!
Continue reading ‘Womens Marathon @ 2008 Olympics’
It’s been a tough last couple of weeks and I must say running has been great therapy. I have not missed too many runs…but I did not run today’s 5 miler like I should have. I was feeling great this morning but by the time I got home from work I had developed all sorts of aches and pains and a scratchy throat…kind of like when your getting the flu. I got home and fell asleep for a couple of hours…I’m still not feeling better. I’m just sitting here, sipping on some tea, feeling a little chilly (yes, you read that right) and about to go back to bed.
In Loving Memory
”A human being does not cease to exist at death. It is change, not destruction, which takes place.” -Florence Nightingale
”It is not dying, but living, that is the preparation for Death.” -Margo Asquith
”It’s only another adventure, after all.” -Dorothy Eden
”Watching a peaceful death of a human being reminds us of a falling star; one of the million lights in a vast sky that flares up for a brief moment only to disappear into the endless night forever.” -Elizabeth Kuber-Ross
For those of you still watching…during this time of infrequent posting…I’ve added a new feature here at Toots and Sally (TAS). Up on the menu bar you can see “Track-TAS”. This will take you to a list of pages to track who from Toots and Sally is Where In the World.
Currently Playing:
Where in the World is Sally - Canadian Edition
Enjoy…
With all the events going on around here, The Lumpy is left to hold up the fort. Well, he’s been a total slacker at posting lately, so time for him to get on his game. That said, I came across the following at TreeHugger:
New Study: Kids Need the Adventure of “Risky” Play
by Lloyd Alter, Toronto on 08. 5.08
A new British study finds the obvious to any modern parent- we overprotect our kids. Half of all kids have stopped climbing trees, and 17 percent have been told that they can’t play tag or chase. Even hide-and-seek has been deemed dangerous.
Continue reading ‘Kids Need to Eat More Dirt’
We may have a temporary silence due to lack of time, worry about Pito, other things, and in Sally’s case, a trip to the unknown in Canada.
We all may not be posting for a while.
We’re all thinking about the important things.
Support is here when needed.
While Sally is gone, Lumpy is standing in Sally’s stead, so if Lumpy is needed, please prevail upon him.
Captain Jean-Luc Picard:
Time is a companion that goes with us on a journey. It reminds us to cherish each moment, because it will never come again. What we leave behind is not as important as how we have lived. ” played by Patrick Stewart, from the film “Star Trek: Generations”
Dorothy Thompson:Courage, it would seem, is nothing less than the power to overcome danger, misfortune, fear, injustice, while continuing to affirm inwardly that life with all its sorrows is good; that everything is meaningful even if in a sense beyond our understanding; and that there is always tomorrow.
Harry Emerson Fosdick:Nothing else matters much — not wealth, nor learning, nor even health — without this gift: the spiritual capacity to keep zest in living. This is the creed of creeds, the final deposit and distillation of all important faiths: that you should be able to believe in life.
Not entirely appropriate for the moment, yet for me, it is…
“I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.”
Anais Nin
How’s a cold-hearted and cold-weather-lovin’ northerner supposed to live like this?!?! I had to WALK during a short 3 miles. WALK, I tell you!!! It’s humiliating. Okay, now let me get over myself.
It’s no San Antonio here, but the humidity is simply ugly. Since my ancestors are light skinned, blonde/red-headed, and blue-eyed, one can assume that I was never really supposed to endure any weather even slightly reminiscent of an equatorial region. I ended up having to stop under a tree for a few minutes to let the roar in my head stop and let a nice sweat coat my body in order to cool down. Made it home and drank a vat of juice. Ugh. I’m currently sucking down my second Nalgene. Hydration = GOOD.
This was brought up at lunch today and I could not remember some of the names that Lumpy and I had brought up in the past in a similar discussion, so:
Top ten guests you would invite to a dinner party…living or dead…where would it take place…?
I’m officially registered to run the full Rock n’ Roll San Antonio Marathon on November 16th.
Except for the lack of time due to work, the unexpected out of town guests, Sole Mates administrative stuff, my dad’s hospitalization, & mom in general…training week #1 was tough but uneventful. I “squeezed” in a couple of lunch break 3 mile treadmill runs at work, but I made it a point to run my 6 miler outdoors on Saturday morning. It was a pleasant escape. Anyway, I survived….
