"Rain Rain Go Away"

Well maybe not. While I certainly don't like riding in the rain, I actually enjoy running in it, but more importnatly the rain makes my trees grow. They still haven't had enough to get off to a really secure start so I'm hoping for another wet day tomorrow.

I was absolutely devestated by another "rain" issue however. I had it in mind to use part of Blind Melons song "No Rain" as part of my blog so I looked up the lyrics. My favorite and what I thought the most brilliant line in the whole song was not what I thought it was at all. And now that I see it in print I think what I was hearing would be much better. Tell me what you think. The as written line goes...

And all I can do is read a book to stay awake
And it rips my life away, but it's a great escape

And what I was hearing was this...

And all I can do is read a book to stay awake
And enrich my life away, but it's a great escape

Is that not much. much better?

Anyway, enough about rain, since it didn't slow me down at all today. What a difference a Canadian maple donut, 2 sausage & egg mcmuffins, and a large bottle of gatorade can make. I had a very good training day led off by the donut, then right on to my massage and then right to the pool for an easy 1000 metres. Then after the 2 mcmuffins I was out on the road doing the same 31.3 kms as yesterday except today I took my bike. I finished it in less than an hour compared to yesterdays harrowing 3 hours, and from there moved right into a nice 5 km run in 23:30. But wait....after some more calories I also did my weights successfully, to finish off a gratifying day. I have consumed over 4000 calories which still scares the heck out of me, but maybe that's what I have to get used to. Believe it or not I still worry about gaining weight.

Better nobody has touched my Haagen Dasz in the freezer though!

I wish to dedicate day 253 to Rob Knight who always treated my kid fairly, and then some!

"Rain is grace; rain is the sky condescending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life."---John Updike

...and my dad would have appreciated this one...

"The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain."---Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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peter