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August 19, 2007
autumn is your last chance
Yet another Robyn Hitchcock documentary on Sundance this afternoon, this time about the current tour and new band featuring Pete Buck, Scott McCaughey (my husband had to identify them for me) and a drummer I'd not heard of . Damn but they are all so old. Scott McCaughey looks like a member of the Grateful Dead, and Pete Buck looked like exactly the kind of well-fed indie-guy-got-rich I would pray to god didn't get seated in my section at the restaurant. The program featured a bit of a party at Robyn Hitchcock's house where he and the band and some very special guests played in the living room, and part of me wished I could've been there, and part of me wished that Nick Lowe didn't look quite so much like a distinguished gentleman and that John Paul Jones wasn't there at all. I watched the program with very mixed emotions. For some reason it makes me very angry to see all these people getting so old.
Anyway, here's some running to go with the inarticulate ranting:
M: AM 7 miles (9:27), PM 4mi (8:55)
T: 9mi incl 800/mile/800/800/400/400 road workout, short recoveries,
made my goal but not as easily as I'd hoped
W: AM 9mi (8:47) incl uphill sprints, PM 5mi (8:56)
R: AM 10mi (8:15) incl 2@6:46, 1@6:48, 1@6:57; PM 5mi w/xc girls incl
5x400 (7:20 pace bunny), untimed but with a lot of stops and starts
F: AM 7mi (9:03), PM 5mi (8:55)
Sa: 8mi (8:47)
Su: 22mi (8:37) solo and unmotivated
total: 91 miles
Oh, the excuses I can make for today's slow slog! I started a new (2nd) job this week that requires me to be on my feet a lot, and yesterday I was, well, on my feet a lot. And though I tried to drink a lot of water between appointments it was still nowhere near my usual
pre-long-run intake. And then my (aging, VU-tribute) band played last night so I was on my feet a lot. And I didn't get to bed until fairly late and I didn't get dinner until right before bed. And then 5am came way too soon, and you know how we 40somethings need our rest (even though we pretend we can stay out all night like we used to). And then it was like 80F, sunny and humid this morning and I did not have my pals from the next county to drag me along at a decent clip; my own unmotivated legs were all I had. Yeah, I'll blame it on that...
Posted by joe positive at August 19, 2007 6:05 PM
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