wafting fingers of aroma

it was kinda ( but not really very) wierd this morning to be running along in the damp street quite a good distance away from the houses on that street, when i was all but acosted by the strong smell of… not car exhaust fumes, not the vent hood from macdonalds…no! it was DRYER SHEETS!  the smell lasted about 3 or 5 seconds, then about when i realized what that out of place smell was, i had moved on. has this happened to anyone else?

training for the half in november begins soon.

happy running! 
 

almost two weeks

today is day 10 being in the house by myself.

how do single people do it?

i can, and do, cook for myself (bachelor fodder).

there are no dust bunnys to name, no crusted plates with a forks stuck to them scattered around, no piles of Stuff in the sink or on the floor,

the bathroom is good,

really

i just seem to be working all the time and i have this nagging hollow feeling

that when i get home no one will be there, and… well

on to running: wednesday i ran on the trails around the south side of grapevine lake with the lgraw crew. it was soooo huuummiiid. mercy! there hasn’t been a breeze around here all week. i ran with a woman who was alot stronger runner than i, but she had already been running for an hour and let me set the pace. i ended up with 5.5 miles. tuesday was 4 miles with the last 3 being at a heart rate of 90% max. i’m not sure of the pace, but i think (hope)  8:45-9:00 min mile. got good running work done on saturday and sunday last too, but no significant long run in a couple of weeks.  that’ll change soon enough.

i haven’t been posting much, but teaching has been juicy and work has been good.

thanks for the birthday wishes and…

                                        happy running!   

june b’days

happy birthday to all the june birthday people, especially d and susan and all you gemini folks.

dianne is visiting kids, grandkids in springfield, mo.

the birth of another g-child – ben. 9lbs5ozs24inches.

(!) she had a toddler.

i’ve been teaching most of the week, not sleeping or running much,

i don’t seem to do either very well when dianne is gone.

happy running!

out in the rain

sunday dianne and i started out together for what we thought was going to be a nice long run; hers for an hour or so, mine for just past 90 minutes. it’s been raining almost every day here for the last month but we didn’t figure it would rain on us. it did. alot. after running east about 20 minutes dianne looked behind us (to the west where the really strong storms come from) and said, “oh, that’s thunder. hey, have you looked behind us to the west?” i look… and think to myself, its pretty far away and hopefully it won’t be that big or strong. the entire western horizon is dark and foreboding. i say, “yes i have” and shrug. well…

i chose to run out further and she headed back for home. enter heavy, torrential  sheets of rain, strong, whipping winds and lots of thunder and lightning. also enter my first opportunity to be afraid that i might get struck by lightning if i tried to run back home (3 miles) or to all those great places to wait out the rain that i ran by 5-10 minutes ago. i waited under a tree against a fence which was out of the wind, but not the rain. fortunately it wasn’t cold.  the dripping dianne was waiting it out in a gas station about .75 miles from home and got a ride from a kind lady. i called a little while later from a little store and she picked me up. there was something oddly exhilarating about being exposed to the power of nature standing there under my tree.

i don’t anticipate doing that again, hopefully ever.  dianne wasn’t to upset for leaving her in the rain, either. hey, if we lived in the northwest, wouldn’t we run in the rain pretty often?  well folks, does this make us real runners now?

happy running!