Today is cold and windy. More windy than cold. The air temp is in the 20's but the wind chill is hovering around +10. I ran six miles with a Magic Mile--one mile at 5K pace--thrown in. Not a great effort. But, it's over. Windy days (winds gusting over 20 mph) are my least favorite. I'd rather have snow and +5 as long as the wind was relatively light. But, we don't get to choose our weather. Especially not in Hog Heaven.
Tomorrow is active recovery and that means cross training--some strength and balance exercises and a 3/4 mile brisk walk. The schedule this week calls for maintenance runs on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday--6, 5, and 6 miles respectively. Thursday and Saturday are cross training. Sunday is my next long run--20 miles this time. And, Wednesday is February. Spring is just around the corner. Well . . . maybe.
98 and a wake-up. For all of us signed up for the Colorado Marathon, that's how long it is before boarding the buses for the starting line. 98 full days and Sunday morning, May 6 (the wake-up).
When I served in Vietnam, everybody had a short-timers calendar that counted down the last 100 days before their DEROS: Date of Estimated Return from Overseas. Also known as catching the Freedom Bird back to The World.
Why 100 days? Nobody ever said. It just was. Cynicism was the dominant mood among the troops after 1968. "There it is," we liked to say. Translation: There is no reason so don't bother looking for one. It applied to everything.
But, there must have been a reason. It couldn't have been borrowed from WWII when everybody's DEROS was the same: When the shooting stops. I'm guessing that it was simply a Goldilocks number: not too long and not too short.
98 and a wake-up. It's sooner than you think. Better get your run on.
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