Monday afternoon
Front ST
Nice pump, was able to push things a bit, left shoulder feels totally fine now. Should be able to get back to my old BW max bench press in another few weeks. Then we'll see how much past BW this middle-aged body can go. I tried to do walking handstands with my suspension straps--big fail. If I'm ever going to be able to do those, I'm going to have to set aside a special time to practice them, just like the double heart-shaped mills. I like to keep things moving along during my workouts, and am usually working against a time limit at the end of the day.
Tuesday afternoon
6.15 mi / 9.9 km
37 F / 3 C
31 F / -.5 C windchill
Nice run, took it easy. I was still recovering from my wife having almost burnt the house down with a grease fire on the stove. Left the burner on after making fries, then went into the basement to study. Totaled the kitchen cabinets, vent, microwave, and ceiling. $1000 deductible. There goes the heavy bag I wanted to buy, for the foreseeable future. Living room is full of soot and smells like a campfire. The contractor who specializes in fire remodeling comes at 10 am today. Gotta love North American service and efficiency. I guess they have special techniques for removing the smell from everything.
If I hadn't come into the kitchen for my lunchtime fruits and vegetables, another five or ten minutes and it would've been a lot worse. If I had come in five or ten minutes earlier, it might've exploded in my face. By the time I came in, the space was full of thick, black smoke but the fire was out except for one cabinet on the opposite side of the kitchen and a molten spatula on top of a pot lid. After I had already cleared out the smoke and got all the hot stuff out in the snow on the deck, the firemen arrived and thoughtfully punched a few holes in the ceiling, for good measure.
Several hours later I ran up to the fairgrounds and then did four repeats on my back-n-forth street. It was kind of windy up there again, but pretty dry. I wanted to do my Como Lake out-n-back route, but it took me a half hour to get going, talking to the insurance appraiser and then our next-door neighbor about the fire trucks earlier in the day. Just as well, I wasn't looking forward to the slush in Como Park. Just the moisture coming home through the neighborhood again got to me a bit, and I feel it on my toe tips a bit today.
Probably just one more subfreezing run tomorrow, and one more Winter Challenge run on Saturday if there's any kind of wind. Then upper 40s/50s next week hopefully.
@Happy Bird Song - nice times!
@ Scedastic - triple workout day, impressive!
@ Bob - where ya been?
@ Dama - I'm like you, it's hard for me to nap, no matter how tired or sick. I wake up groggy and can't get to sleep at night.
@ Nick - Good luck with your Doc!
@ Andy - I've never understand that approach, but I might have to adopt it myself for my half in August, or bail on it. I want it to be fun. I don't want to be struggling the last few miles. My idea right now is be up in the 12-13 mile range on my long run by July, or put it off for another half in the fall or next year. The last thing I want to do is reawaken my ITBS ogre, who I know still lies dormant in my sinews.