Later in the Week

Thursday I was up a little after 5:00AM so that I could head off to the Y. A ten minute warm up on the elliptical trainer, then I was on to the nautilus machines. I did my round on the machines and off to a weight watchers meeting. I am still within two lbs. of my 160 target so I am in good graces with watchers of weight. My goal is to drop back to my previous weight of 153 or less before my October 23rd marathon. Later in the afternoon I ran a hilly loop for 5.7 miles. I am still not doing my speed work, but it has been a week.

Thursday morning 10:30, Lisa and I meet our financial planner to go over pur finances now that I am between positions. That gets done.

The rest of the day I am calling more people who I think can help me find a new job. I call Nourse Farms because they are losing their grower to his home in the Midwest. Tim Nourse is out but the receptionist thinks that he will want to talk to me.

I get an email from Donna asking if I am interested in another late night run of 10 to 14 miles Friday. Lisa says okay since it means I will not be doing a similar run on Friday morning. Face time with the spouse is a good thing.

Friday night at 8:30 I meet Donna, and we head out to the bicycle trail parking lot on Station Road. We run up hill for most of 7 miles into the Pelham Hills while she tells me about her recent 100 miler, the Cascade Trails 100. If this were Donna's Blog tonight's entry would be much more interesting than our 12 mile run in to the Pelham Hills. Donna is a running beast (this is a compliment she pays to other distance runners). Two weeks ago while I was running the Mt. Toby 14 miler, she was finishing the Cascades 100 16 seconds under 24 hours. She took three days off from her running, I took off four days. Tuesday I cranked out 25 miles, Monday she ran 28. Beastly running, beastly.

It was a great evenning for a run. We ran on mostly empty, unlit backroads and some dirt roads. It was a circle of sorts, with steep climbs and descents. A woman walking her dog commented on our resemblance to miners with our headlamps.

This time of unemployment will be great for running, and running will get me through this time.

Keep running folks.