"Busy Day"

My long run went well. At one point I felt like I could run forever, but eventually it became apparent that such was not the case. Regardless I did go further than I pad planned and felt pretty decent the whole time. I ended up doing 35k in 3 hours, 20 minutes. Not too fast but nice and steady. The books tell you not to bother running for more than 3 hours at this point, because they suggest that that's the point of diminishing returns. They may be right physiologically speaking, but I needed to get a slightly longer one in from a phsychological perspective. Probably from here on in I will limit it at 3 hours.

It was a learning kind of run in regards to proper hydration. It wasn't really that hot nor humid and so I thought the 2 1/2 litres I drank was sufficient. I lost at least 8 pounds!! By the way the 2 1/2 litres I drank weighs 5 1/2 pounds, so I had to drink more than twice as much as I did. Scary! I suspect that I'm not drinking near enough on my long rides and will try to do better in the future.

I forgot my hat which doesn't help the heat problem, not to mention the sweat running into my eyes all the time. I don't understand why that stings so much...tears are salty aren't they?

Long workouts like this tend to leave me in a funk for the next few hours but once I recovered I still had the energy to take Colby to swimming and to baseball. We drove the car to the pool but the ball diamond is only about 3 kms away and highly tuned athletes like Colby and I don't drive such short distances. By the way...he went 4 for 5, hitting the first pitch every time! That's my boy!....well the neighbbours boy actually but close enough.



We needed a trailer to haul the equipment and the beer (just kidding mom and dad) and so we dragged out this old classic. This is the very same trailer that Claudette used to haul Michael and Adrian all over town way back when we could only afford one vehicle. If the truth be known it may have actually made a few trips to the beer store back then as well....times have changed eh?

If only I could hear a little better these trips with Colby would leave me a much smarter man, since he continuously enlghtens me with his worldy knowledge. It's like a switch turns on and stays on as long as we're moving. That's okay...I like that noise better than anything on my i-pod. The one thing I did hear is his decision to do another triathlon. He had decided not to do any more since it would mean swimming in a lake but somehow that fear has passed. I look forward to cheering him on.

I wish to dedicate day 301 to Colbys baseball coach Krista. A genuine person with a genuine love of kids.

“Doing nothing is better than being busy doing nothing"---Lao Tzu

“He who's not busy being born is busy dying."---Bob Dylan

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peter