I remember when I was younger how adults would use covert expressions when they didn't want me to know what they meant,"it fell off the back of a lorry"implied it was stolen,"in the family way/a bun in the oven"an unplanned pregnancy and the time honoured"seeing a man about a dog"which could've meant absolutely any bloody thing but was the term used when you didn't want people knowing what exactly you were doing.
I took today off work,my boss granted me a sick day after the shenanigans of Friday and Monday and actually suggested taking two days off but I felt a day was more than enough.
Should anyone ask me tomorrow where I was today I shall happily inform them I was"seeing a man about a dog" and leave it at that.
Still no sign of my bloody debit card,week to ten days my arse! I went to my lending establishment today to get enough money out to pay my rent and go food shopping, a happy landlord and a happy kitty kat plus no left overs for a couple of days for yours truly,food,Gatorade,Vitamin C tablets and another gallon of Tampico a delightful orange/mango concoction I've been guzzling the last two weeks which seems to be doing the trick I must say.
Out for my 6 miler just after 2pm,inspite of feeling sluggish in the opening few strides I went through 2 miles in 14.19,very close to Mondays split.
22.00 at the turnaround,I could attribute my 10 second deficit to having to swing wide of a mechanical digger along the sidewalk of Cobbs Creek Parkway by Carpenter St.
Again I felt strong on the inbound 3 miles,if I was going out hard and fading away in the second half of the run I'd be worried but yet again I notched a negative split 22.00/21.45 for 43.45.7. only 4 seconds slower than Monday and another day of being closer to 7 min mile pace w/ something close to knee lift and leg turnover at the finish of the run.
Clearly yesterdays easy untimed 4 miler was the right thing,more of the same is on tap tomorrow w/ a rest day on the schedule for Friday b4 a return to the track on Saturday for mile repeats.
Three weeks from today I'll touchdown in Sacramento,seven weeks from today ditto for Berea so far this week I feel a tad more optimistic about Worlds and Nationals,long may this continue.
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very glad to hear that you're on the road to recovery. Sometimes these setbacks just result from staleness and we bounce back. I'm pretty sure Dave Wottle missed more than a week of training right before he won the Olympic 800 with some kind of virus. The rest period did him good, obviously.
Thanks.
While I still have a ways to go to be back where I'd like to be Mon and Wed were steps in the right direction so we'll see what the coming weeks bring
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