Weather.com = crack smokin' tricksters

I check the weather before my run. 36 it says. Feel like 34 with the wind. I wear a long sleeve shirt with a cut off over it. I wear pants. I wear gloves and a hat.

About four minutes into the run I realize that it is much warmer than 36. I take my hat off.

A mile into the run I turn north and am relived to have wind blowing at me. I put the hat back on.

I run for two miles into the wind before turning around.

I turn around. I walk for about 50 meters. Then I start to get really hot.

I rip off the hat. Then my hands get really hot. They are the second things to get hot. Then my upper body gets hot. Then the lowerbody.

Having run a mile with the wind at my back, I am sweating like it is in the 80s. I use profanity at everything. "Damn you, small pieces of rock on the road!" I say. I say "damn you, grass in the ditch."

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I was happy to get home and take off the hot clothes. I check the weather and it says that it is 48. What the heck? What the heck, weather.com? What?

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Put on shorts and cut off. Go do a workout. Was going to do pyramid 1-10-10-1 but then saw my neighbor. He was putting up a shed. The shed was on a trailer and him and another man were moving the shed from the trailer to the ground. It must have been one of those pre-assembled sheds. The kinds that would be found in a Sears catalog.

I do bigger sets so not to look like a pansy. I don't want to be seen doing 1 pullup, then quitting. I want to be seen doing 6 pullups. So I start with 6.

I do this:

6, 9, 12, 15, 15, 12, 9, 6 pullups = 84
20, 30, 40, 50, 50, 40, 30, 20 pushups = 280
40, 60, 80, 100, 100, 80, 60, 40 abs = 560.

I take a break mid-way through. I felt like crap. I decided to walk with my mom to T.O. Haas to get the car. The car had to have its oil changed. It was 1,000 miles overdue.

I get back with the car and head out to the tree again. When you get close it can be seen where I do my workouts. There, where the grass is dying away. That is where I do my workouts. Sorry, lawn. Sorry, dad. I will try to use different parts of the lawn from now on. Maybe even use the woodchips.

Later in the day I do:

2 x 90 fire haulers = 180
2 x 30 neck = 60 each
6, 9, 12, 15, 15, 12, 9, 6 dips = 84

The haulers sort of burned. I retract my comment from earlier, about how they didn't burn. They still do burn. Especially when you haven't done them for almost a week.

The neck felt good. The neck feels strong.

The dips felt easy. There was a little burning in the shoulders, but that is what is supposed to happen. There was a little burning in the shoulders. I felt strong, though. Powerful. I felt powerful and strong.

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Hope you had awesome days! Mine was good. I practiced for about 3.5 hours. I ran, did PT, played guitar, had afternoon coffee and graham crackers with frosting. A good day.

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The hip hurt a bit in the run. I do not know what is wrong with it. After the run and PT I iced it, then took a warm bath with epsom salt and ylang ylang. Now the hip feels good. Most likely it will hurt again when I run, but I will ice it and defeat the pain. Eventually I will defeat the pain!

I also ran in the new shoes. They are good. They feel good on the feet.