Heartbreaker
This morning the alarm went off at 5:40 and I wanted to punch it in the face. It is a digital alarm clock so it doesn’t really have a face, but if it did, I would have nailed it a good one. I managed to refrain from acting on my first instinct of throwing a punch at an inanimate object and got out of bed for a nice 7 mile Memorial Forest long loop. I saw a deer this morning standing in a clearing looking right at me and when it scampered off, it just took three bounds and then watched me run past. Usually they take off into the woods out of sight. I do believe the deer in the area are getting less and less afraid of humans. Next year he will probably ask me for some food.
Solo lunchtime run over the peaks of tippling rock and all the way up to the top of Nobscott hill. I was in a climbing mood today so I figured I would maximize my altitude. 53:41 for what is probably 8 miles. Afterwards, 3 sets of abs with some lifting between sets in the Fitness Center.
Last night was another round of 400m heart break hills in Newton with Dan. 5 mile warm-up through cold spring park was particularly pleasant last night with ideal conditions of 70 sunny and dry. The workout was 10 x 400m (400m = 380m for the purpose of this entry and for the times to make sense) @ 68. I was fast early, 66/67, right on in the middle at 68, the 7th was slow at 70 and the last two were quick again at 67 for 9 and 66 for 10. Felt very good considering I was a little fatigued at work after a soaking wet 5 mile morning run with Christy Mae. I do believe we caught the worst of the rain.
Monday was just some easy distance runs with a nice easy 9 mile Alpaca Farm loop at lunch and an easy 5 miler with Christy after work. After my busy weekend I couldn’t get my butt out of bed early for the usual AM run. Hopefully that is all done now and I will be able to be up and atom every morning for the rest of the week.
Quiz of the day.
“Up and at them!”
“Up and Atom.”
“Up and at them!”
“Better”
Bonus to anyone who can guess the show and episode this exchange is quoted from.