Training Archive: PGIn the 7 days ending 2008-02-16:
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Saturday Feb 16 | ||
| road running 44:48 [3]5.53 mi (8:06 / mi) | |
| shoes: Montrail #2 | ||
| Well, maybe a little better. Lovers Lane loop from the Body Shoppe. Legs felt better and put out a decent effort, even though the pace still sucks for what I felt like I was doing. I guess that's the way it is. But at least the legs had a little life. Knee is doing a little better, but still sore afterwards.
Went to the Banff Mountain Film Festival in the evening. Pretty good. Had me thinking about going skiing again, it's been more than 20 years. We'll see. Definitely did not have me thing about going BASE jumping or unicycling. | ||
| C • skiing 10 | ||
Friday Feb 15 | ||
| Note | |
| New client this morning, first person I have ever met who has had a heart transplant. Very, very nice guy, considers himself the luckiest guy in the world. Takes 179 pills a week to keep his immune system under control.
Wow. | ||
| C • That's not quite as many pi... 1 | ||
| nautilus 20:00 [1] | |
| Just not into it. Quit after a while, went off to try the treadmill, quit after about a minute, went to the grocery store. | ||
Thursday Feb 14 | ||
| road running 1:09:44 [3]8.14 mi (8:33 / mi) | |
| shoes: Montrail #2 | ||
| Adams Road, Log Plain, Lovers Lane, back Adams Raod, from the Body Shoppe. A struggle all the way, but done. One of these a run will feel good, or at least I sure hope so. The usual few minutes on the roller afterwards, quads, calves, hamstrings. Route.
Long day at work, still far from over. Always interesting, latest client educated me on the differences between Harleys, BMWs and Japanese bikes, he's a Harley guy. Never know when this stuff might come in useful. | ||
Wednesday Feb 13 | ||
| nautilus 50:00 [1] | |
| Note | |
| Almost an hour of shoveling when I got home. Hard work, especially doing the deck, having to throw the junk far enough to clear the railing and the bushes. Glad I've been doing the Nautilus stuff, but there will still probably be a couple sore muscles tomorrow. | ||
Tuesday Feb 12 | ||
| treadmill 32:00 [3]4.07 mi (7:51 / mi) | |
| shoes: Montrail #2 | ||
| I had given some thought to getting up early and going to the Smith indoor track, but my knee was bothering me yesterday, and still bothering me when I got up this morning, so I passed on that. But I brought my running stuff with me and by mid-morning the knee was feeling better, so I gave it a try on the treadmill. And felt not so bad.
A slow mile to warm up, then 4 x 880 at 7:00 pace with 440 at 8:30 pace in between. Time goes quicker doing this than just going at a steady pace. Good little workout. And left me enough time to go shopping afterwards. So I'm a couple of days early. That's better than forgetting. 
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Monday Feb 11 | ||
| nautilus 50:00 [1] | |
| Included bench pressing the G three times, though the last rep was just barely successful. | ||
| Note | |
| An interesting day at work, not because of the weird people but rather because of some nice clients --
First guy, a carpenter, his wife is a nurse, no kids, his utility costs run about $25 a month, yup that includes electricity and heat, he heats with wood that he cuts himself, built a water powered system up the hill from his house that generates electricity, he just buys a little propane now and then, looking to install some solar stuff this year. Very mellow, good conversation. Then a young woman, well, not that young, probably in her 40s, not much money, makes maybe 12K as a waitress. She lives with this old farmer, maybe 75, he raises horses, I've done his taxes for years though I've never met him, the goal each year being to somehow get his taxable income down to zero, because he's quite broke, and we've managed that. And then last year, talking to her, and she's done her own taxes, and we must have been talking about retirement planning, and she says something about putting a little money in a Roth, and I find out she's been doing that for several years, so we amended the years we still could, 4 of them, got her an extra 2K or so, so this year she was in to get her taxes done too. Nice girl, pretty too, I still haven't had the nerve to really inquire into the relationship between her and the old man.... And then, well this one is not a favorite, despite what I tell her she keeps pulling money out of a retirement account and losing it at Foxwoods (a casino).... And then a real old lady, sold her apartment house in 2006, big profit, paid lots of tax, but at least this year we got her tax bill down to zero too. Which was good, cheered her up, she's having to carry an oxygen container with her all the time, has her a little depressed, but she had pneumonia three times last year and it's doctors orders. And then a guy who is a bus driver, hard working, does overtime whenever he can get it, wife is a bank teller, he is trying to pay down the mortgage as fast as possible. And we are going through all the possible deductions and at some point he asks about the fee for getting a passport. Nope, I say, but I ask where he's going. Lithuania, he says, that's where his wife is from. So we put the papers aside for a while and talk about that, and what it is like there (always raining the last time he was there), and how he met his wife (she was a passenger on one of his buses and they talked a bit and then he asked her out) and more about Lithuania, which I have to read up on now because he said it was a whole lot bigger a long time ago, though I did know where it was located among the other Baltic republics, from north to south it goes Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania (alphabetical order!), and he was duly impressed. A very nice chat.... And then a couple in their late 50s, he's had rotator cuff surgery recently, out of work for a while, she has fears of the IRS, several years ago we had the discussion about whether we were going to report the husband's moonlighting income, and she won the argument and we report it, and each year since there are looks passed back and forth, but I know we are going to report it again. She is actually a sweetheart, she doesn't care for her younger son's affinity for tattoos and piercings but is quite pleased that he is saving all his money for a down payment on a house. And then a woman, just overjoyed that they aren't paying in this year. And then a young couple, except they aren't married, two kids age 2 and 4, one theirs, one hers. In 2006 they were both working, making maybe 25K in all, both got good refunds (3-4K) with the EIC, but this year she earned all of $600, tried to go to college, couldn't afford it even with financial aid, he lost his job, maybe ended up making 10K. At some point I asked them, How do you survive? It's tough. Do your parents help? Nope. Wow. He still got a decent refund, but it didn't seem right to charge them even though I could see they'd brought the cash. Next year, I said, when you're doing better, and they left with a smile. And then a guy in his 30s, auto mechanic, had him last year for the first time. He'd been going to H&R Block, they had screwed up his return, the IRS had dunned him $1800, and despite the fact that he had paid HRB extra for a "Peace of Mind" guarantee, meaning if a client had to pay more tax because of their mistake, they would cover it up to 4K. And he'd gone back to them and they'd blown him off, sorry, not our problem. And that seemed especially outrageous, so I'd picked up the phone and called up the regional office of HRB, and found someone high enough up the food chain to agree that they had an obligation and promise to resolve it. So it was very sweet to find out a year later that he'd gotten a check for $1800 from them. If it hadn't been so cold I would have asked him to come out and look at my brakes, they are starting to squeak a bit. Though I still have a few more mechanics to go.... And then the last couple, got married on New Year's Eve on top of Cadilac Mountain in Acadia NP, and so the question was whether that was a good move or not, tax-wise. Pretty sure it cost them a couple K, though we're not quite finished yet. But they seemed happy enough anyway that that didn't seem to bother them. No drunks, no one smelled bad, a fine day. | ||
| C • Thanks for the stories! 9 | ||
Sunday Feb 10 | ||
| road running 1:22:07 [3]9.63 mi (8:31 / mi) | |
| Back roads up to Montague Center and back (route). Good test of willpower, the intent was to do this and I stuck to it. Legs felt dead, knee still a little sore, mainly towards the end. Got caught by a heavy snow squall in the last 10 minutes, glad it wasn't like that all the way.
Need to do a lot more before I'm ready to venture out with Phil. | ||
| C • training 4 | ||