Mar. 20 - 5.1 Miles Ran; Mar. 21 - Rest Day, 5 Miles Sponsored

It's been a whirlwind this week--1) I am starting a new job on April 1, and I have been putting in a lot of hours in my current one to make sure I hand off my responsibilities in good order; 2)  I have been planning for this weekend's events, discussing logistics with Greg Rule and making my own plans to hopefully meet up with friends coming in for The Run for the Families.  3) I am dealing with a house in need of a little TLC (dishwasher-kaput; stove-oven on the blink; heating zone in kitchen-not working; kitchen sink-clogged).  Nothing like hand-washing dishes after a full day.  Oh yeah, 4) March Madness (my bracket research is turning out to be a straight waste of time--should have went with the mascot approach).

OK, enough whining--I don't want to scare away any of the faithful blog followers by using these posts for therapy!

I got in another 5.1 mile late day run on Wednesday.  It was another run in which I kinda dragged myself outside but then felt better and better as the run went on.  I did the same course as Tuesday, the Batterson Lake loop with two laps around Stanley Park.  The weather was actually pretty comfortable, with fairly low winds and temps around 40 degrees.  I guess I'm getting re-acclimated to winter weather with the problem of course being that it's now Spring.

I covered miles 287-292, sponsored by the following generous people:

Cheryl Renaud Dowd, third son (287-288);
Tom Jones (289-290);
Christina, Scott, Pavel and Nikita Hansen (291); and
Chris Garrity (292).

Thank you all for your support!  I take special note of mile 292 which Chris reserved back on Jan. 16.  292 is the street number of Chris's childhood home on Elm St. in Monroe.  Many blog followers from Monroe would recognize this address as Doc Garrity's house, which sadly has been replaced by a commercial retail property.  I spent many a day at that address--it was a pretty good set up for Doc--I would hang out with the Garrity family (Bridget, Jim, Moira, Tim, Sheila, Pete, Chris and Katie) until I would sustain some type of injury that would send me down to Doc's office.  Medical treatment aside, I have a lot of great memories of time spent at that address.

We also had another 5 miles sponsored.  Thank you Jeanette Bill-Cole, it's awesome that you are following the blog from out in Cleveland!  You have miles 350-354 which I should complete around April 7.  Thank for your generosity Jeanette.

Today's (Wed) Line:

Date

DoW

ToD

Distance

Time

Min/Mile

Notes

Effort

Total Miles

3/20

W

4:45p

5.1

39:12:00

7:41:11

40f

8

292.0