My Running Blog and Other Stuff

.... this is WHY we moved to FL. The temps have been glorious… a perfect early fall NE day….. Training going well. Down a whole bunch of pounds, being really really careful. Longish workouts are really showing their good. Dave is doing awesome. He’s increasing time on machines, losing a few pounds, and feeling good. REALLY ggod. Gotta keep his mind occupied pre-surgery!!

Wilma not as bad as predicted here in Tampa. Others like Towaway have it bad. He JUST got power back today. Glad to hear that. WE’d probably be in the same boat if it hit here….. that, or Tampa proper would still be under loads of water!!

Mom is still psyched about coming down… we gotta get the place in order within the next two weekends, tho. Missing Vulkon, but that is ok. MUCH important to have a house that you can eat off the floors on….

BAck to work tomorrow… hopefully, it will be a little busier…. but not crazy busy.

Wilma is coming, Wilma is coming. Dave and others at work keep telling me that its the year that Tampa gets hit bad. Wilma looks interesting to say the least. I have to go to work no matter what; i volunteered to be on the pool list; so the only thing i have to really worry about is dave as i’ll be in the hospital for the good part of the day. i wouldn’t mind being sent home; it looks good that i come in…....and get some work done and anything else that needs to be done as well. getting paid through it all is a good thing, right?

dave and i are doing well at golds. he’s really gotten into the spirit of thngs and wants to workout as much as possible. the trainer rocks. she is probably the best one i’ve ever had. actually listens to what i want to do in terms of results. i want more upper body strength and core strength…. that would be great to get a more defined sixpack at the ripe old age of 41..

so back to watching the hurricane. i’ve got a 5K tomorrow and then a really hard workout at the gym with dave. with luck he’ll be good to enough to take spin with me during the workout… we shall see…

i gotta do better than just one post a week, but its been overly insane here for the past few days. work is definitely calming down; new projects are coming up, so that is a VERY good thing. a couple of days off coming up for dave’s birthday, and I’m looking forward to it. the next vacation for dave’s surgery will be a little stressed, but the end result will rock.

training is going well—very well, actually. THe biggest news is that dave and i joined golds gym. he really wants to lose weight and get fit so we got the full package deal. the thing is that they are open 24/7 during the week and that rules as i can actually go to a real gym for the workouts. we went today, and he seems to be doing OK. my key thing is that i need to be on the other end of the room when he is doing his thing; he’s got a trainer workout tomorrow, so that should be interesting.

mom is SO excited to come down for the surgery and ensuing holiday. wish i could take a couple of more days of holiday, but with folks doing other days during the week and the need for coverage and me still lowman on the totem pole i have to go in. NOT that it wouldn’t get approved, but you know, still nice to be there, and who knows, i may be able to escape early on wednesday and friday…. we’ll see. especially if its a really slow day with very little going on. something tells me that is definitely going to be the case…..

So today is the first weekend off in almost a month. good day today. got dave a few new toys…. part of his birthday present, i guess. work going well… bound to calm down after this week. got a some exciting stuff coming up, but don’t want to jinx myself.

traning goes well… at least on the weekends. i just am getting so tired of the little gym here… stuff just doesn’t feel right, and i am scared that i may hurt myself using the equipment…. and i refuse to run around the complex at 4 am unless i really have to… just not safe enough. i really can’t wait for the marathon. i want a good race so bad. i don’t think i’ll bq, bu tyou know, i’ll give it the old college try…... feeling very good, but gotta be so careful with the weight stuff. i got a suit that is a size 2, and it fits perfectly…. can’t get much smaller than taht… i saw size 00, but that would be too much.

on dave’s health front, the pneumonia is almost gone. we’re seriously thinking of joining the y. for him, cardio stuff, as he really doesn’t want to use the equipment here either. and besides, we can meet folks. he’s getting cataract surgery on the 16th of november. i’m scared, yet not. i’m told the doc is the best in town and there is nothng to worry about. mom’s coming in to help me out and not get stressed to the max. i probably will be escaping to the gym more often than not, (the real one) but that is OK.

i think that’s about it for now. life goes on well.

training has begun in ernest. scared like anything. but it will happen. and a goal time, too….. tomorrow is 6 miles, but that eans going to bed NOW to get to that awful mill by 4:40, and NO reading mail until after getting back. work is very good, as always.,...

...dave wwill be getting his cataract surgery by the middle of november. scared as hell for him…. but you know, that is OK… still really worried.

... more to come.