I'm back! At least that's the hope
anyway. Would like to make some kind of guarantee about that but I
seem to remember promising to start posting regularly again a few
times before only to follow that up with the greatest impression of
Houdini ever.
I have not died, okay maybe just a
little bit inside. I have not been institutionalized in a State
Hospital which is actually pretty surprising to some people and I did
not decide to swear off technology and move to a remote cabin like
Ted Kaczynski.
No I just got real busy and real lazy
all at the same time. Yes it is possible to be both at the very same
time. Looks like I am not going to fix the busy part so I will try to
at minimize the lazy part. So what has dragged me out of my summer
slumber? Well first came the realization that if I don't write this
stuff down I am bound to forget that it happened or at least exactly
how it happened. That's old age for you. Even the stuff I would much
rather forget should be written down somewhere. Then there is the
wife who likes to remind me that I once had a blog that some people
actually read once and a while and when am I getting back to that.
Lastly there was this encounter at Oil Creek as my wife ran me in to
the finish. HaHa ran, who am I kidding, try slowly walked me in at a zombie death shuffle pace.
Runner passing me “Hey I know you”
says the guy I don't think I have seen before.
“Yeah, I used to read your blog” he
says.
Ouch!! I mean he meant it in a nice way
but all I heard was used to read your blog which kind of translates
into what ever happened to your blog. I just got lazy seems like a
wildly inappropriate answer to that.
Turns out I have lots to write about
that is going on right now and lots of stuff coming up. I also have a
pile of unfinished oh so last summer race reports. I will try to keep
up on the new stuff while revisiting this past summers racing with a
few untimely race reports. Nothing like reminiscing about a run in a
heat wave while the snow is falling outside.
Western States Lottery
Here we go again,
names in for the WS 100 lottery. Drawing is this Saturday and I will
be watching it online which is some kind of sick self torture. This
is the 5th year of attempting to get in and the chances
are 54% according to the website. All my previous failures give me 16
tickets and it looks like a good chance but I am not holding my
breath. The lottery gods hate me so I think it will be another 2 or 3
years before they honour me by agreeing to take my money.
Tannenbaum 10k
Will be heading
down to the Tannenbaum 10k on Sunday. I am not racing but will be a
pacing Elf for one of the pacing groups. That's Elf not Alf. It
should be a lot of fun and there are about 6 runners I am coaching racing. Here's hoping for no snow between now and then. Check
back next week to find out how it went.
Good luck with the lottery! And good luck to your clients!
ReplyDeleteI think a pacing Alf would be pretty funny, too.
Glad you are back and good luck with the lottery!!
ReplyDeleteGreat to see you're back blogging! It's nice to meet people who used to read your blog ... they could follow it again. Isn't it?
ReplyDeleteGood luck with the lottery
Hope the lottery worked out in your favor this time. Looking forward to reading some race reports!
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