Mile 9:09 (shocked the hell out of me. I think Eric's stop watch is off)
6 rounds of 10 pushups-goat hills-walking lunges the length of BB court.
I thought my mile time would be slower than testout of the last assessment 2 weeks ago at 9:26.
Why?
1. I ran with Jane on Saturday and was still a bit sore and tight from that.
2. I hadn't done ANYTHING for a week (except on Saturday with Jane)
3. It's test in and, well, in order to beat that time at mid-cycle and test out, well....
But
1. Eric's in my face and in my head....top 50 (%)
2. I was working on my breathing from the diaphram and not from the chest. Per RW, it's more efficient and I would have to agree. When I breathe from the chest, I get winded faster.
3. I was hearing Eric from test-out saying "lean forward" and that helps. I tried that this time and I could do it for a bit. But I can't sustain that the whole run. I'm going to have to build up to that.
4. That new guy, Omar, I just couldn't let him beat me. Not that I'm the fastest since there are many, many more who are and can beat me. But I had to push at the end and he did that too. Ego? Yeah just a little. But he was close enough for me to try and beat. And that got me a time of 9:09.
So..I need to be sub-9 some time this cycle. Hopefully at mid-cycle, but if I get that time at test-out, I'll take it! Just need to be sub-9...sub-9...sub-9..
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
Monday, April 6, 2009
If anyone has attended a funeral with military honors, the lone sound of the bugler playing taps will just rip your heart out. And to hear the sound weeping over that is excruciating. No that isn't too dramatic a description.
I didn't know my friend was in the military. Of course I always thought he was only a few years older than me so not being in the military would have been common. But he was 67 when he died last Sunday, so he might have been part of the returning soldiers from Vietnam. That would explain his never speaking of it. Never do I remember him speaking of it. I saw him one a week, every Wednesday, while we took a stained-glass class together. And after many years, the class ended. So we got together a few times a year with others in that class, mainly to stay in touch, catch up with each other's lives, offer support when stokes, illnesses and death happened. We talking of many things other that just projects. Life. Frustrations. For many years this went on.
I think I've know Mando for 15 years. As I was sitting in the chapel, I was wondering how Rosie will do. He was her rock. He was many people's rock. How nice to know you've touched so many people's lives like that.
I didn't know my friend was in the military. Of course I always thought he was only a few years older than me so not being in the military would have been common. But he was 67 when he died last Sunday, so he might have been part of the returning soldiers from Vietnam. That would explain his never speaking of it. Never do I remember him speaking of it. I saw him one a week, every Wednesday, while we took a stained-glass class together. And after many years, the class ended. So we got together a few times a year with others in that class, mainly to stay in touch, catch up with each other's lives, offer support when stokes, illnesses and death happened. We talking of many things other that just projects. Life. Frustrations. For many years this went on.
I think I've know Mando for 15 years. As I was sitting in the chapel, I was wondering how Rosie will do. He was her rock. He was many people's rock. How nice to know you've touched so many people's lives like that.
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