Me, the other day, at the drugstore, waiting to pick up a prescription, wondering if I should buy a few of these useful, hard-to-live-without, why-didn’t-I-think-of-that items now or later.
Only thing is, I miss the “BUT WAIT, THERE’S MORE!” deals…
Training Journal – 12/8/12:
My father-in-law and friend passed away today. Such a hard day for us, but we are thankful for the time we got to spend with him last night, talking with him and making him laugh.
We take comfort in the fact that he is in a better place, with a perfect body, and that we will see him again.
But we do not want you to be uninformed, brothers, about those who are asleep, that you may not grieve as others do who have no hope. For since we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so, through Jesus, God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep. For this we declare to you by a word from the Lord, that we who are alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, will not precede those who have fallen asleep. For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a cry of command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the sound of the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we will always be with the Lord. Therefore encourage one another with these words.
1 Thessalonians 4:13-18
We pretty much spoil her…
…it’s just so hard to say no when she does the “sad eyes.”
Training Journal – 12/4/12:
Made the tough decision to cancel our trip to Honolulu and my running of next Sunday’s marathon – which would have been my first. There are just too many things going on right now (the details are private), and the best decision was to cancel.
After 4.5 months of solid marathon training (really almost a year), I really want to accomplish that milestone. Over the past two days, I scanned the available ones over the next several months and did find a few in January & February in SoCal. The rub is that I’ve already registered for the Big Sur Marathon in April and want need to start a focused, 18-week training program for that on December 24 (read: build base and do hill work.) Inserting a 3-week taper, marathon, and subsequent recovery week(s) in the middle of that just didn’t seem smart.
I did find a local marathon being run on the 15th: The ZombieRunner Bay Trail Marathon in Palo Alto. It’s not Honolulu, but the organizer puts on quality events and I know it will be a great experience for my first marathon. One nice part will be that my taper and carb loading will be easier since I’ll be at home!
So, I’m resetting and will start (re-do) week 2 of taper tomorrow. Deja Vu…all over again!
GIDDY-UP!
…I’ll run Honolulu someday.
Training Journal – 12/2/12:
Weekly mileage: 11/26-12/2/12:
November was a solid month of training: mostly road running, one trail run, and some consistent, Monday cycling sessions [a spread of 72% road, 2% trail, and 25% bike.] November was also the home stretch for my Honolulu Marathon training program (including weeks one and two of taper.) I also ran two races.
As far as new equipment, I bought some winter-weather cycling clothes and a better headlight for the bike as well.
I did have a to travel to Virginia, but kept on my training schedule while away – I even broke out the cold-weather kit since it was about 34 degrees each morning!
Anyway, here are the stats for the month that was November 2012:
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