Training Archive: PGIn the 7 days ending 2008-03-01:
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Saturday Mar 1 | ||
| Note | |
| More slimming, 137 | ||
| C • :) 3 | ||
Thursday Feb 28 | ||
| Note | |
| Some musings....
1. I was at the gym a couple of days ago and there was a fellow I've seen there several times, we say hello, he's friendly, older black guy, pretty lean. I asked him if he was a runner. Yes, he was, though not so much now. What sort of distances, I asked. 400 meters, plus the long jump and the high jump, he was probably best at the long jump. What was your best, I asked. 25' 5", back in the mid/early 60s, when the record was about 26-6. And he reminisced a bit, on that jump he just dragged one foot a little too much, his other foot went in the sand at 26-2. He's just been inducted in the hall of fame at the college he went to in Kansas. Loved to run the 400, best was 46 and a small fraction. Just a nice guy, fun to talk to. Never know what you might learn if you just try. 2. My good friend Dave's mother died on Saturday. She had been in poor health for quite a while, dementia, in a nursing home for the last 18 months. On Friday she was having trouble breathing, they got an ambulance and took her to the hospital, and the next morning she died. Probably, if you look at it rationally, a blessing. Though that is hard to do. The wake was scheduled for Monday evening, 5-7, in Northampton. I felt I should go, I remember going when his father died and Dave appreciated it, but I was swamped at work, appointments well into the evening, and I didn't get around to canceling the appointments and so I didn't go. And at the time I would have been at the wake, one of my appointments was a young couple, I've done their taxes for several years, one of my less favorite clients, the wife especially, she always seemed bitter about life, always owed money, just an unhappy person. I'd at least managed to get her the last couple of years to have enough taken out of her pay so she would get a small refund, but she still seemed pretty glum. Anyway, she'd changed jobs about 6 months ago, now a nurse's aide, bottom of the pecking order in that profession, and she had a W-2 from the same nursing home where Dave's mom had been. So I said the mother of a good friend of mine had been there and had just died and did she know her. Oh, yes, my client and another aide had been in charge of taking care of Dave's mom, and they thought the world of her, a sweet old lady, and there were many tears shed over the weekend. And as she said this, she was tearing up again. I felt somewhat guilty for not making the wake. But I called Dave the next morning to tell him all the nice things I'd heard about him mom, and I know he appreciated that, and I felt better too. 3. A client yesterday, woman in her late 40s, school teacher. I did their taxes last year for the first time, right at the end of the filing season. Her husband came in, he made good money, maybe 125K (very good around here), had been looking for someone to do their taxes over the years but never happy with what they found, owed lots of money. Asked what my credentials were. I said I had none, but I just did individual returns, I did a lot of them, and I knew what I was doing. And just before we were done he called up his wife and said something to the effect of, we've found ourselves a tax guy, clearly pleased with what I'd done. So this year the wife comes in. Because, as I find out, her husband had dropped dead a week ago. Boom, massive heart attack, gone. We take care of things, it's not easy, of course, because at the same time as I'm trying to get her straight on what she needs to do I'm also thinking about mortality in general, and my mortality in particular. 4. And finally, the reason I have some time for writing these notes, is because I cancelled most of my appointments for today to go down to Springfield and get a prostate biopsy. Not fun, but nothing awful either, certainly less pain than I've had at a multitude of sporting events or workouts over the years. What is totally different is on the emotional side and there the word that best describes my feelings is fear. Just pure simple fear. I am trying my best to deal with it, but it is hard. | ||
Wednesday Feb 27 | ||
| nautilus 35:00 [1] | |
| Knee better but still not right. Have an appointment for PT, but first I could get was in a couple of weeks.
Seems like AP has changed some of its format. Initial reaction is I liked it better the way it was. Guess I need to get with the program, but right now I don't have time (or inclination).... | ||
Monday Feb 25 | ||
| nautilus 20:00 [1] | |
| Knee much sorer than I would wish. Need to take a few days off. And way too busy at work. | ||
Sunday Feb 24 | ||
| road running race 1:18:31 [3]10.0 mi (7:51 / mi) vdot: 42.7 | |
| shoes: Asics trail | ||
| Amherst 10 Mile, hilly course. Felt tired and slow, surprised the time wasn't worse. Oh, well, better than doing nothing. And at least I broke 80 (plan was someplace between 78 and 80).
7:23, 7:19, 8:23, 8:28, 8:01 (39:34), 7:45, 7:20, 7:56, 7:46 (mile marker was too soon?), 8:10. Legs mostly ok during the run, a couple twinges around 8 miles. A little sore afterwards. Don't think I did any damage. | ||
| road running 8:00 [3] | |
| shoes: Asics trail | ||
| A little warm-up.
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