day 51

Two days in a row of nice weather. Today's predicted warmer than yesterday, but after the rain, I'll take it!

Hadda fight myself not to do St.Francis this am, with workouts tonight, can't shoot my load this am, save it for the evening.

Track tonight, he said last week: hills, repeat hills. Ouch. This'll hurt, but times are def improving. Distances still suck, but 5k times are dramatically better. It helps to regain that sense of running fastER. Rather than maintaining a consistent/marathon/half-marathon pace, going harder. Complicating matters are the knees, but whatthehell, pain is good (n'est pas???).

Reviewing the Ocean to Sound results, now I'm REALLY proud. Not just for us-we did 2 minutes faster than last year-and THAT'S without our star runner!!! But proud of ALL the teams, when the 3rd place team in your division beats yours by well over an hour, it tells you we're-collectively-not getting older, but better-some of us at least.

AND, for all his bullshit, bless Vince. Rarely wears the colors, runs and publicizes for Northport and those OTHER green special people, but steps up when needed. Sam didn't show for his leg, Vince stepped up, AND ran faster than his assigned leg. Nice. We're dysfunctional as HELL, but we step up when called.

Signed up for the Norway Run-know I'll be disappointed-you know, the "why can't things be like they were" thing. Once we went as a group, had a blast, but then...life interfered. Their loss. I'm there.

Also, the Midnight Run. LOVE that one.

Now, gotta go home later and sign up for the Get to the Point 5k, you know, that neighborhoody Brooklyn run, a.k.a. the "Glutton bowl." Was on the fence, it really interferes with pre-marathon racing, but Deb's doing it, so I'll have a partner in crime. Be nice to get more AP peeps there-this one really shows what a neighborhood can do.

(STILL can't get over Alessa cheering on the runners during my leg on Saturday. Wow. Not associated with our club anymore-over typical trivial bullshit, but shows up when needed. Once a Strider, always a ???).