long time, no write
I apologize again. I have not put in an entry since Wednesday. I do not plan blog lags like this and I apologize to the three people who actually read this mess.
Thursday was crazy busy at work and I took Friday off to evict some squatting birds out of my attic. This of course included getting access to my attic which was through a little attic hatch in the closet of the master bedroom. Well, after almost killing myself going through this hatch twice, I decided a pull-down staircase was required to do this job right! Off to lowe’s and 90 bucks will get a nice 25.5 wide 8’9” long pull-down staircase. After cutting a hole in the ceiling, covering every inch of myself with drywall, cutting through two floor joists, reinforcing said floor joists and installing the staircase. Besides the fact I almost crushed myself into smitherines a few times by trying to lift the stairs over my head into the framework, it was a pretty smooth job. Now I have access to the attic through some nice stairs. The big joke was on me because the birds I thought I heard in the attic and thought I saw flying in and out of the attic were actually in the gutter. The rest of the weekend was spent raking the front lawn which obviously was not raked in the fall.
Oh running, right. To catch everyone up, quickly, Thursday I ran a double of 5 and 7 for 12 on trails. Friday I got lost in Area 51 south and ended up running 72 minutes. I scrapped my afternoon run after my near death experience with the staircase and realizing I was way too tired to go out for another run.
Saturday was a real solid tempo run day. We met at Lincoln and did the flat-farm out and back. It was the loop so nice we did it twice! The first 4.4 I did with brad and the second 4.4 I did solo. Here are the splits, which seem a little off but not sure why. 5:22, 5:25, 5:22, 7:47 (1.4), then 8:00 rest, 5:18, 5:21, 5:18, 7:35. The run was total of about 9 miles worth of tempo which felt pretty good. Could have probably gone a little harder but that wasn’t the point now was it.
Sunday was the best long run of the year thus far. Memorial forest to Area 51 code 81064 for a total of 1:50:32 and I am calling it 16 though it may be more. The run was an actual loop and I only spun around twice. Did the first hour with Christy and the last 50 solo. Next Sunday I will try to break the famed 2 hour barrier. By break, I mean go over.
That’s all I got.