black

I left out that the one friend is WHITE, everybody else is black

minority

I get so fucking tired of being in the minority all the time.  Gun control, politics, race, Confederate flag, anthem kneeling, our fucking dangerous, idiotic President....thankfully I have one friend who sees things the way I do....I'll keep biting my tongue.....

20.0059464817

1 mile doggie run/walk followed by 10 miles at Townlake this morning.  Operation 57 for 57 is alive.  However, I did have a hitch in the giddyup and missed my 4 miler yesterday morning.  I purposely got an earlier start (4:45a) than originally planned to possibly get back one of the miles I missed yesterday.  That was not it be though.  10 was it for today.  Oh well, I'll get caught up.  Even with a lot of stretching my plantar is hurting pretty good post run this morning.  I'll get it figured out though.  A little funny though.  The last 2 months I haven't gotten my minimum miles to quite maintain my 20 mile weeks, or so I thought.  As of yesterday I'm at 20.0059464817 miles per week.  I almost laughed out loud when I saw that number.  Anyway, I'm hanging in there.  As of today I need 599 miles by 6/1/18 to get my 20 miles for 20 years.....

57

1 mile doggie walk and then 10 miles at Townlake yesterday and a 4 mile doggie walk in the 'hood this morning!! 

I have a 4 day weekend for my birthday next weekend so I've been trying to plan something interesting runningwise to celebrate my birthday.  During yesterday mornings run I figured it out.  I'm going to try and get in 57 miles miles the first week of October to match my years on earth.  I sat down yesterday afternoon and worked out a plan.

Sun  4 mile doggie walk
Mon   1/2 mile doggie walk, 4 mile run
Tue  1 mile doggie run, 10 mile run
Wed 1/2 mile doggie walk
Thu  1 mile doggie run, 10 mile run
Fri  13.5 mile run
Sat  12.5 mile run

I think it's real doable if I can really focus on eating well and good recovery in between runs.  And yes, there will be some walking along the way but this is about endurance and not speed. 

patience

My running pals bailed on our weekly run so I stayed home and did 3 miles with doggie and 4 solo miles.  All in all a good morning.

I'm not sure if my foot is progressing or not.  I know it was in pretty bad shape to begin with.  I'm really trying to be diligent about doing my exercises.  Patience really does seem to be a virtue....

fun

Had a very good 7 miler at Townlake this morning.  I started off nice and easy and then did a series of several speed ups I'd guess you'd call them.  Basically just running faster than normal.  Across I-35 I ran a lot faster than normal.  I mixed in some tempo speed, really slow shuffle and some walking and finished 4 minutes faster than my run with Steve last Thursday in 1:15.24.  I wasn't trying to run faster than last Thursday, not even looking at my watch once during the run but, I did find it interesting that I was substantially faster.   Anyway, that's going to be my new Tuesday morning routine and I'm going to call it Freestyle.  Freestyle in that I'll just do whatever I want to break up the routine of going slow. I really think it will be beneficial for my overall running fitness and it's fun!!

doggie

Had a good weekend of running.  Saturday we started the day with a one mile doggie walk and then Lovie and I did 4 miles in Barton Creek.  Sunday started with another one mile doggie walk and then 8 miles at Forest Ridge in Bull Creek.  Doggie helped me cut the grass in the backyard Saturday and she and I also ran an errand to Petco for some doggie glucosamine!   Life is good!!