• Friday at 9 p.m.

“Blood runs cold

I feel it in my bones”

Def Leppard

I just returned from a very reluctant run.  Spent the whole day procrastinating;  finally got out, too late.  It was too cold, too dark, raining and just plain ugly.  I had on my many layers and my legs were warm.  I never took off any of my clothing; ran with my hood up. My Garmen says I ran 2 & a half miles in 32 minutes.  That is pretty weak. (I ran 11:44 for two and a half miles in high school.    56 years ago    Is that really possible?)  But, I digress. It’s better than getting nothing in at all not a rough day.  Tomorrow the weather is supposed to be more accommodating, and I am determined to get in that  mile repeat workout on the cinders.  The best hope is for me to do it in the early morning  while the endless 1600m meter relays are being run  at Penn, before the good high school and college championship races begin after 1 o’clock.

I hope everybody is having a better day than I am on the running front.

It is Penn Pelays weekend!

STATS

A.M.HR  – 54BPM

I-MAD – 2

WEIGHT  – 153#

SLEEP  – 7 HRS   VERY RESTLESS and BROKEN

Workout  – 2.5 cold rainy miles

I’ve been watching Penn relays again today for about 8 hours now.  I have resisted going out for my run because I keep getting caught up in another race.   Now I have to wait to watch the high school competitions that occur between 5:30 and 6:20.

Now today has been a raw, rainy day in at Franklin Field and in Jackson.  In the course of the Flotrack broadcast the commentators were mentioning how cold it was and how smart athletes need to be about their warm-up and how difficult it is at the Penn relays. It’s always amazing to me how young athletes resist the idea of wearing sweatpants during warm-up.  I could blog endlessly on this topic , but instead I have decided to vlog.  VLOG is a new word I just learned from my daughter, Kristen.  It is a video blog.  If I get it to work you will find below a vlog directed by Arlene and made by me.

We made the video and tried upload it. However my WordPress site tells me that it is too too big to place on this site, there is a limit of 64 something megabytes something. So we will have to do some adjustments and see if we can get it back up. I thought it was pretty good and that people might enjoy it .  We  will see. Right now I am off to do my workout before it gets too dark.