Happy Easter

Happy Easter

If you don’t celebrate Easter, may I please wish you Joy in whatever makes you happy.  Diversity is what makes the world so special.  Thank you for respecting my beliefs as much as I respect yours.

Today is a day of rest, from training, and hopefully, from working.

Carpe diem.  Dream big, get there and most importantly of all, stay there.  That’s the ticket.  Staying at your goal.  jeff  🙂

96 Percent ain’t good enough

What are you satisfied with? A 96% would be an “A” on most tests.  Not satisfied with an “A”.  The overachiever in me wants an “A+”.

Early this morning, I got an “A”, with a “96”.  I’ll take it and feel very good about it.  And feel very, very thankful, too.

Felt great.  Opened it up a bit on the second and fourth mile.  Heel held up nicely.

This leaves me cautiously optimistic.  So, I’ll celebrate with two full days of rest.  I’m due for this any way.

Have a GREAT weekend.  My favorite day of the whole year is tomorrow – Easter Sunday.

Carpe diem!  Chase your goals and never, ever, give up.  jeff  🙂

Cross your fingers

In a few minutes, around 7:15AM, I’ll be heading out for another five-miler. 

Moment of truth?

I hope so.

And I hope that whatever happens, I’ll be strong enough to surrender, should I be disappointed.  Or to be strong enough to embrace the enormous responsibility to keep moving forward.  This is an impossible-goal journey, which is more than ten years in the making.

From the memory of elementary school reading assignments, “Run, jeff, run.  See jeff run“.

Carpe diem, jeff  🙂

Wednesday – Still undecided

Ran the same three-mile loop as yesterday  But today with wool gloves and wool cap.  Seriously. 

Central Floridians, especially me, are chilly anytime the temperature dips below 60 degrees.

The pain was very mild.  Can’t wait to try longer, easy run as well as a tempo run, to see if the pain is just hiding, and waiting for another chance to dampen my spirits.

Carpe PM.  Good night.  jeff  🙂

Terrific Tuesday?

Not quite.  But it was better than previous runs. 

The key difference? 

Minimal pain.  I ran three miles in about 27 minutes.  Nice and easy.

Tomorrow we’re expecting record cold temps. 

My World Championships application for the USA World Team was accepted today.  Woo-hoo!