Tuesday Jul 8 |
 | City running 1:12:00 [3] 6.0 mi (11:59 / mi) | |
| weight:198lbs shoes: NewBalance 715 |
| Beautiful day. Ran up to Weiss Hospital for my 3-mo shot. Spoke with Dr Zorn who left a patient in the OR just to come up in his scrubs and tell me he thought that this might well be my last shot...see how things look in October.
Afterward felt less energized...was it the sudden infusion of medicine? Ran back along the Lakefront in the sun in the late morning. The vistas and sun were wonderful...one of the high points of the summer, already! |
Monday Jul 7 |
| City running 49:00 [2] 4.1 mi (11:57 / mi) | |
| weight:198lbs shoes: NewBalance 715 |
| After the golf. Ran around the buildings, and then over to the Lakefront driving range to see how it's rehab is going (closed since April). Looks great, with pure green fresh lawn blending seamlessly with the AstroTurf. Regraded to look like a rising fairway, with "target greens" strategically positioned out to about 250 yards. It should be open by the time I get back from Sweden. |
| Carry golf 2:15:00 [3]** 7.6 km (17:46 / km) +40m 17:18 / km | |
| spiked:11/23c weight:198lbs shoes: NewBalance 715 |
| Carry Golf = playing 23 holes (diverted often from standard play to avoid slow players; replayed 5 holes as the opportunity arose). Logged only half my total time on the links, believing that I was lifting, walking and swinging about 50% of the time.
After the disastrous play last Thursday with Karl and Larry, today was much better: my best round ever! |
Friday Jul 4 |
| Running race 42:57 [5] 4.0 mi (10:43 / mi) +20m 6:34 / km | |
| slept:7.0 weight:200lbs shoes: New Balance RC1001 Flats |
| Four on the 4th. Elmhurst. Chilly when I left the house in the dark at 4:30am to catch two el's out to Rosemont where Kielo picked me up at 5:45 for a race start at 7:15. Nice course, winding through 1920's residential streets (not an elm to be seen) and then through the downtown on York Road. Felt good; RH toe was still red, but longer sox, slid up above the heel cup, were the answer.
Saw Carl Hays; diagnosed with prostate cancer 4 weeks ago, and has robotic surgery scheduled already July 29 with Dr David Dalton at Northwestern despite Gleason grade 4+3. I told him that he was surprisingly decisive for an engineer, but didn't try to talk him out of it. If I had a cure for cancer, I'd tell the world. Since I do not, I'll allow each guy to choose his own course in peace. Remember BenFranklin:
...Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment...
But I want to remember to visit Carl in his hospital room at Northwestern on the 30th.
Afterward Kielo invited me to see her new place, but I begged off, grabbed my pack, and walked to a Starbucks in downtown Elmhurst for a cup of coffee, and spend a pleasant 20 minutes waiting for my train back to the City, listening to a 5-piece Dixieland band (trumpet, tuba, banjo, clarinet, and a lively old gray-haired woman on trombone) on the street corner at 8:30am! Elmhurst rocks! |
Thursday Jul 3 |
| Carry golf 2:15:00 [3]** 5.5 km (24:33 / km) | |
| spiked:3/18c shoes: NewBalance 715 |
| Jackson Park GC. Karl and Larry. Extremely tired for some reason. Right long toe became increasingly irritated, until I stopped and took off the too-short sock that was binding on it (damn those "one-size-fits-all" cheap sox; they've made it impossible to find a proper-length sock) Ended with a nice birdie opportunity on #18, and just missed the 3' putt. But overall I was not in control: drives, chips and putts. |
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