Training Camp: day 6
As the week goes on I keep getting a later start to each day. Today I hit the track to kick things off. I had fairly low expectations for my speed today but was wanting to run hard. The workout was 5 x 1200. I got through it and actually negative split each interval and the whole set. I won't tell you my times, though. While I was cooling down, a group of elementary school boys ran over the the jungle gym and climbed up. The girls were lagging behind with the teacher. The boys had a "no girls allowed" chant going for quite a while until the teacher forced them to allow the gym to become co-ed.
Today was really hot. It felt great to get into the pool and do some easy swimming. I tried my new waterproof digital camera for a little stroke monitoring. I need to get into a pool that is really clear so that I can see more than one stroke. This was the milky pool again.
I went out for an easy ride today, ended up feeling really good, and hammering 2/3 of it. I stopped by the small store down the dirt road again. I talked with Helen, the 80 year old owner, for a while. She was full of stories and seemed to really need someone to talk to. She told me about how her husband was a truck driver. He used to stop a small shop in Penn. on his route. The store carried some sort of Mennonite soft cheese that Helen was fond of. Her husband, Mitch, would always bring her a ball of it. A couple, once, came into Helen's store and were admiring in a way only a shop owner could. It turns out that the couple owned that shop in PA and remembered Mitch. He had a bum leg and limped. What makes it so incredible is that Helen's store is in the middle of nowhere and then down an unmarked dirt road. Small world!
