July 24th, 2007
Busy Weekend
This past weekend has been a busy one. It started off with the monthly charity poker tournament to raise money for my Livestrong Challenge ride. Unfortunately we had a lot of people out of town so we only had four players playing. It was bad timing but it had to be last weekend because this weekend is the 24 Hours of Booty in Charlotte, next weekend is the Virgin Music Festival in Baltimore, and the next is the Phillies/Braves series in Philadelphia. So in the end, even with the low turnout, it was still a fun night. We raised $30 for the LAF with Richard beating me out for the overall. We followed up the main tournament with another H.O.R.S.E tournament for fun. I wont bother getting into the details of H.O.R.S.E, because its confusing enough to play let alone explain. Suffice it to say its a different game for each letter and I lost that one too.
Saturday I put in my long run that was scheduled for Friday. I went up to Lake Lynn and ran laps there again for variety which is a circuit of about 2 miles. My run called for 90 minutes and I managed to knock it out but my feet paid the price. A while back I mentioned that I bought some new running shoes but didn’t start using them because i read my old shoes still had miles to go. A few weeks ago I decided it was time to make the switch and started out with the new shoes. I had a few small blisters from a long run in the old shoes that were aggravated by the new ones. I figured it was just because the shoes were being broken in and the blisters hadn’t healed enough. Now after a couple weeks I know it is the shoes. Every single time I use them I get blisters and Saturday ended with a nice blood blister the size of two quarters end to end. Needless to say those shoes are retired, but unfortunately I cant take them back since I waited so long before using them. Ill be heading out to Inside-Out sports next paycheck to get refitted for a new pair and just use the tainted shoes as a casual pair. Inside-Out is a local running/triathlon store that has a really good reputation for fitting shoes correctly. New Balance did me right for my first two pairs but i’m getting up there in mileage and I dont want to risk a repeat of this last pair and be knocked out of commission from avoidable blisters. Sunday was 90 minutes on the trainer for my cycling fix.
Monday I knocked out my first full mile in the pool, well it was 10 yards short but Ill call it a mile. I did 70 laps that worked out to 1750 yards and a mile is 1760 yards. As I’m writing this I just got out off the trainer for another hour and a half at a pretty good clip. That was my last cycling session till the 24 Hours of Booty Friday. I’m looking forward to getting over 150 miles which will be a nice dent in my weight loss bet. And as a final update on that side I’m ranging between 190-195 while last week i was between 195-200. Anyone on a scale knows that it will fluctuate all day long if you watch it.
