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Good Morning, FS Warriors! Up at 3:30 this morning for a threshold run of 4.0 miles with a one mile warm up and one mile cool down for a total of 6 miles. What's a threshold run? For me, at this stage in my training, it's one mile intervals at a fast pace with 60 second rests in between. I didn't want to get up, much less run fast. I was still dragging from my 9 mile run on Saturday. The run was OK once I got warmed up. I looked at my log, and I ran 27.3 miles last week. I had to drive to work with the windows partially down to keep awake.
Yesterday's church service went great. I did the Lee Greenwood song God Bless the USA, and the people in the congregation actually sang the chorus with me - loudly and with passion. It's not often you get the pew sitters involved. LOL! The Pastor honored the veterans afterward, and as luck would have it, I was the only one there. All the other veterans were gone for some reason, and I know we have a few of them regularly attending. Maybe they were worried about being in the spotlight. I felt a little awkward being the only one standing up there. But, it wasn't too painful.
Went to lunch with the Pastor and his wife. I had a gyro sandwich, cream of chicken soup (a little cup) and fries (which I didn't eat). I did not neglect to eat the fries because I was such a good boy; I didn't eat them because apparently they don't know how to make french fries. This is about the 3rd time fries have come with a meal, and they were limp and greasy - like the oil wasn't hot enough when they put them in the pan. In any case, it was a blessing in disguise.
Afterwards, even though all I wanted to do was take a nap, I knew I needed to get a battery and install it in the little car. So, off to Walmart I went, and picked up another battery. And then I went over to the Pastor's house to help them move some rather large furniture. It was dark by the time I got home, so then I changed out the battery, which was an adventure in itself. I was almost finished with the chore, when I dropped the wrench! Nope, didn't go all the way to the ground. Bounced up and down on the little car, felt where I could feel, shined the light everywhere I could - no wrench. A few expletive deletives later, I take the battery back out, which of course had the most frustrating hold downs of any battery I have ever changed. Still couldn't find the wrench. Went and got a magnet on an extended wand and went fishing. Finally, retrieved the wrench. Took another half hour to finish installing the battery, and by then, I'm thinking I can still get to be an hour or so early. Nah, didn't happen. Dog needed walking. DW needed me to do a couple things. Got to bed about 9:50 PM. Oh well, maybe tonight.
Got on the scales this morning and I was 3 lbs. heavier. Now how the heck does that happen!? I burn 1200 to 1800 calories on a run and have a bagel for breakfast and gain 3 lbs! I know, I know. The scale is not your friend, and there are a lot of things going on in the body that don't respond like you would like them to, but it just seems like the scale knows when you've been having a bad day, and it just likes to see if it can take you over the edge. I know it's an inanimate object, but I still want to kill it!
So, with that said, I hope that all my buddies have a wonamous Monday! Is that possible? All things are possible with God. LOL! Could happen. Right? Toodles!
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