Training Archive: PGIn the 7 days ending 2007-02-10:
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Friday Feb 9 | ||
| trail running 58:17 [3] | |
| weight:136lbs shoes: Pegasus 08/06 | ||
| Usual loop, cold and windy, but no different than the last couple of weeks have been, so perfectly pleasant.
Very busy today, all good people. | ||
Thursday Feb 8 | ||
| trail running 1:04:30 [3] | |
| weight:136.5lbs shoes: Pegasus 08/06 | ||
| In Gill, from the French King bridge up just below Darby Hill and back, some longer climbs than my usual route. Also, most of it wasn't packed out, not much snow, maybe 3 inches, but enough to make it a little slower. Plus a number of frost pockets. All good training! And mostly sheltered from the gusty NW winds.
For tonight's weird client story I won't pick the women who came in a couple of evenings ago with a girl friend (whose taxes I already do and is a bit of a flake, same goes for her mom) along for moral support, and anyway this woman was in the process of getting divorced and she had absolutely no knowledge of anything to do with the family finances and will probably get somewhat screwed as a result, though less so if she takes my advice, and at one point we started talking about what her taxes would be like for 2007 and I said as long as the divorce was final by December 31 she could file single and that would be better and then she asked what if she were married, and I'm thinking boy that's a pretty quick turn-around, and then she says she's getting married in October -- and now she looks at her girlfriend -- to her, so now we talk about the tax implications of gay marriage, and, well, as I said, that was a couple of nights ago so I can't use that for tonight's weird client story. So instead I'll use another woman, late 30s, and in this case weird means maybe unusual but very, very admirable way, though perhaps not in her choice of men, because she is supporting him (he doesn't work, doesn't seem to do much of anything, the one good thing is they aren't married) and 3 kids and they all live in a camper parked in the front lawn of a rundown house she bought 3 years ago for 74K (which might get you something decent in the slums of Laramie, but around here it doesn't get much), and she's spent 3 years rehabbing it on her own, everying, learning as she goes, she's almost done, all while working full time at a crisis center and every time she sees a neglected kid wishing she could open an orphanage. And she's been doing her taxes herself and apparently messing them up, but a friend said she should come see me, and now she's getting back about twice as much as before and we're going to amend her last three years. Which is cool, because she really deserves some good news and she's going to end up with 8-10K more than she would have had otherwise. | ||
Wednesday Feb 7 | ||
| trail running 57:51 [3] | |
| rhr:50 weight:136lbs shoes: Pegasus 08/06 | ||
| Same as yesterday and the day before, but also different, meaning it was the same route but run an hour later than usual. For which there was a reason....
See, there's this guy I seem to have done taxes for the past couple of years, and he weighs probably about 350 pounds -- not that there's anything wrong with that -- and he also, well, I'm not sure if he never showers or never washes his clothes or maybe he just has impressive but totally natural and above all really awful odor. So the first year i was stuck, did him as quick as possible, but it was rough. Last year we discussed not letting him in the door, but at the last minute we chickened out, and I was really really fast but it was still awful, all my ladies were gagging. So this year when I saw they had made an appointment for him (they didn't remember his name), for 3 pm today, I told them to cancel it, to say I had a doctor's appointment, and that I was really busy with nothing else availble, and he could drop off his papers if he wanted me to do the work but no appointments were to be had. So they called him up and told him this fairy tale -- because how do you tell someone they can't have an appointment because they smell so bad? I'm not sure he believed us, so we figured I'd better be out of the office at 3, so I took my break from 2 to 4 instead of the usual 1 to 3. And as I was most of the way through my run, chugging up a hill, I started thinking about what the doctor might say if I'd actually gone to see him, and I hoped his advice under the circumstances would have been to get lots of fresh air. Which was exactly what I was doing. I'm still not sure how to tell someone they smell really bad.... | ||
| C • Well. The way you do it is ex... 9 | ||
Tuesday Feb 6 | ||
| trail running 58:57 [3] | |
| weight:136lbs shoes: Pegasus 08/06 | ||
| Same as yesterday. Low 20s, windy, felt quite pleasant.
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Monday Feb 5 | ||
| trail running 1:00:09 [3] | |
| weight:137lbs shoes: Pegasus 08/06 | ||
| 13 hills loop, snowpack on the trails so slipping a little all the time, but still pretty good conditions. And given the cold day, mid teens and very windy, it was not totally unpleasant -- much of the route is sheltered, and what wind managed to find me had trouble cutting through my four shirts and two pair of pants.
Now if my hamstring would just stop hurting. May have to consult with Wyatt on how to get it fixed.... Another very long day at work, with a varied cast of characters as usual. It seemed that most were involved in some sort of relationship disasters or triumphs, with the former unfortunately more common than the latter. I hear a lot of interesting tales.... | ||
Sunday Feb 4 | ||
| trail/woods running 1:25:38 [3] | |
| weight:137lbs shoes: integrators 2006 | ||
| At Mt. Tom with Phil, about 3 inches of snow, ran some off trail, some on trail, plus did the 9 holes of the golf course (the only time we got much of the wind). lows 20s, bright sunshine, quite pleasant. Went off the map 3 times, though it's debatable if you can go off the map if you don't have a map with you.
Legs didn't feel too lively, but may have just been the footing (slipping a bit, Phil had spikes, don't know if that made much of a difference or not). A little hard on the hamstrings, they were complaining by the end. | ||
