<p>I’ve played on grass (a handful of times) and clay quite a bit in the past. I’m not sure what the state of the club is that he plays at. They put up a bubble in the winter and take it down for the summer and I don’t know what they do in-between.</p>
<p>Clay tends to favor fitness and a baseline game.</p>
<p>Played 2:05, 7-5, 6-0, 6-0, 2-1 (ret). He was serving very well in the first set.</p>
<p>My dentist is very busy these days and it is hard to get an appointment. When the economy was really slow, I could get an appointment the next week.</p>
This is pretty high profile. It will get a lot of people clucking, I’m sure! I generally boycott all network “news” shows, but I’ll have to set the DVR for this one. Maybe I’ll have finished plowing through all the CSPAN Supreme Court arguments by then. I think I’ve got about an hour or so left.
<p>idad, sounds like a good show! Thanks for the heads up. (BTW, you can get transcripts and audio of the Supreme Court sessions from their website).</p>
<p>I managed to squeeze a couple of short runs into my rather crazy schedule this week. I hope I can do better in next week.</p>
I know… I should have downloaded them to the iPod, but they were perfect cooking background, so I grabbed them on CSPAN for the TV near the kitchen. I had an hour of NPR podcasts each day while working out. From listening to the experts on NPR, you would think that there wasn’t a legal mind in the world who could possibly question constitutionality (except, apparently, Supreme Court Justices…) I thought Clarence Thomas was the the most concise in his questioning.
<p>“Propaganda hit piece. And I can even appreciate the images of Honey and maple syrup, which contain ZERO sugar.They just want people, when they think sugar or bad, to think of Real, naturally sweet products of nature, to relate natural foods and sweets as bad because of all the sugar in it. Even though they contain no sugar. But of course they consider aspartame and all the other fake pharmaceutical sugar substitutes as safe.
Scuz me. I will trust nature over some fat cats and chemist,And quack doctors.”</p>
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<p>Maybe in 15 years sugar will be accepted as a problem.</p>
<p>Someone left a package of tiny cupcakes in the office. They were 1/2 inch high and 1 inch in diameter. I had two of them. Carbs were 22% at the time and I was ravenous after tennis.</p>
<p>As usual, I got a lot of sleep last night and feel sore, tired and hungry this morning. I also feel quite thin. Nothing hurts though - I don’t feel any injuries. I have to clean out the basement tomorrow or during the week so that should make for a good workout. I also get to do finger dexterity exercises in doing my taxes.</p>
<p>Yesterday, my opponent came very, very close in the first set. He was doing something different with his serve which caused me some problems but I adapted by the second set. In the last game of the first set, he rushed his shots a little and things in tennis can happen very quickly. At any rate, it was a great workout.</p>
The Y participates in the A.W.A.Y. program (Always Welcome at YMCAs) and honors visiting Y members outside a 30-mile radius to visit our facilities FREE OF CHARGE. Any visiting Y member within a 30-mile radius is allowed five FREE visits then is required to pay half of the current guest fee for all subsequent visits. The number of guest passes in any given time period may be limited at the discretion of the branch executive director. The visiting Y member must show a valid Y membership card.
<p>Calls from WildChild that begin “I have news…” never seem to bring positive energy to my life. (No one is in jail, fired or pregnant…) I don’t know how one young adult can continually cause ripples of upheaval throughout the country. Stay tuned.</p>
<p>Didn’t sleep well and never ate dinner last night (sound like BCEagle). HR too high on what should have been an easy 4 mile run this morning. I am running 13 tomorrow during the “group” 20 miler (people do different distances). I put “group” in quotes since, as I have reported, there doesn’t seem to be anyone my pace so I am alone. At least I’ll have aid stations and different scenery.</p>
<p>Well, I’m glad to hear that WildChild isn’t pregnant. Now that would be news!</p>
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<p>I missed my Friday punch-the-clock workout. House showings at the crack of dawn, so I had some tidying up to do last night. So’ll I’ll be hitting the basement this afternoon.</p>
<p>First, I’m making another batch of Paul Prudhomme’s Texas Red chili. Snow here this morning, so chili seemed like a better bet than firing up the Weber.</p>
<p>Just finished my Friday punch the clock workout. An hour and fifteen minutes in the basement. This is the workout with the single leg squat to a box and the step ups to the weight bench with two 35lb DBs. Those get me huffin’ and puffin’. Good solid workout, though.</p>
<p>Now, it’s off to make salad and chow down on some of my Paul Prudhomme chili that I spent all afternoon cooking. I’ve got two large dutch ovens worth simmering away on the stove. Time to fill up the freezer. Not super low carb because I put kidney beans in it, but not horrible. It starts with a pound of bacon and five pounds of chuck roast diced into half inch pieces. Yum.</p>
<p>Even I don’t have the patience to make this exactly the way he outlines it (althouth I have). For example, I use Penzy’s ground ancho chiles instead of roasting and grinding dried chiles. And, I don’t dig out the blender to thicken a bacon/stock combo. :)</p>
<p>I did my weights at the Y today - skipped the running.</p>
<p>The better news is that my daughter asked me to show her some weightlifting exercises in the basement which I did. She’s interested in a job that may have a physical component.</p>
<p>Well, five days on the road with DS wasn’t so bad after all, in many ways. I actually lost a pound, so I’m not complaining.</p>
<p>It also appears that DS is gaining maturity. I guess being a thousand miles away with your name on the lease and a new job starting tomorrow sobers you up pretty quickly.</p>
<p>My wife found an old, unused sweatshirt that’s about 10 years old - I got it for my daughter but it is a Men’s S. It’s actually as big as an old Champion M I bought about 20 years ago. I wore it outside today and I think that I prefer my fleece. The fleece is lighter, thinner, and has better pockets (3 zipped). It’s hard to beat technology.</p>
Loosing a pound on a five day car trip is pretty amazing. That’s tough because there’s no way to really avoid the fast food stops and restaurant meals.
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I’m sore this morning. This particular workout with the single leg squats and the heavy step ups gets my legs every time. This afternoon is either going to be a walk/jog or the dreaded Airdyne.
<p>It’s so sad about True. It sounds like it might have been a heart attack.</p>
<p>VeryHappy- that’s great to lose a pound on a trip! </p>
<p>Did the 13 mile group run (most ran 20) and ran faster than I wanted to in order to keep contact with other runners so I didn’t get off course. It followed the Country Music Half Marathon course, which works a little better during the actual race since there is traffic control. We started early enough that I didn’t have any issues until my last couple of miles when I was in some church traffic. Started at 59 degrees and was 70 and sunny by the end. I was getting warm and was glad I wasn’t doing 20. Somehow you barely make whatever distance it is you planned. I could not imagine going another mile, and that’s how I felt last week after 18! Running is stupid. Lots of long uphills- not horribly steep, but uphill nonetheless.</p>
