Back To Work.

Morning all, how's it going??  Me, I am doing pretty good.  It is Monday, and I go back to work today.  Monday, Monday, but that is okay. 

I really don't have much to write about today, so I think I will do a list. 

• I got 8 miles in yesterday.  6 of them with Jerry.  I run better with people.  I do better when I can share miles.
• My cousin Rudy ran a 2:49 marathon.  I was wondering what kind of shape he was in.  New job, marriage, move to East Coast.  Guess he is still in good shape.  (2 minutes of his PR)
• Race results to the phone is a good idea.  It was pretty cool getting those texts.   :)
• You know I think I can get down to 3:35 Marathon pace.  I paced that for 15 miles a few years back.
• Wouldn't that be something to get back there again??  A worthy goal.  I'll have to get my big boy cold pants on, and ride to work and back in the Winter.  Everything helps.  
• We had tacos for dinner last night.  Not sure what we will have tonight.  
• I didn't do any push ups or pull ups yesterday.  I finally don't feel sore today.   ;)
• Lists can be kind of cool, because you just search your brain for something or another.  
• I think I may run the Grand Rapids 13.1 with Ken.  It will be like a long run.  I am pretty sure his race pace is pretty much the same as his training pace.  I paid for it anyway.
• I don't have a lot today, but yesterday was a pretty good day.  Nothing like starting the day with a run huh?  
• We are going to start up again our Tuesday night runs.  

That is it for today!!!    :)

Thanks for reading!!!    :)

Hope Everyone has a Great and Awesome Day!!!    :)

xo's!!!    :)

Love You All!!!    :)))

p.s.  I find it strange that sometimes I blog, and it is a doozy, it just flows, and sometimes I have an entry like this.  Oh well.

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The Turn... For Me.

HA HA HA.  This isn't the turn turn.  This is just a turn that has been made in me.  For some reason, and for so long I have been missing a spark.  I mean, I could do the work, but my mind really hasn't been on the GET BETTER path.  I have been for so long just going through the motions.  Do this, do that, because that is what I do. 

NOW... something clicked.  I want to get better.  I want to be a better runner, and I want to be faster.   All things are relative mind you.  A good Marathon for me would be a 3:45, and a good 5K would be sub: 22:00.  Want to know why I don't do many races??  I was not near PR fast.  I don't want medals, and I don't want to do races just to do them.  I want to have a shot at being better than what I have been. 

So look out, somehow, someway the fire is back.  The drive to be better.  The drive to do more and more day after day.   The drive to do more than go through the motions. 

I will be unorthodox.  I will still drink, etc..., but I have time to get this body in shape.  To slim down, and get faster.  I have no idea what I weigh, but I am sure I could stand to lose 10 lbs. or so. 

Me having a drive also coincides with me having a future.  We have so far to go, and LIFE WILL HAPPEN. 

Life happens to give us a better view of life.  A better view of life doesn't necessarily mean life looks better.  It means we see it more clearly.  Remember my life turn??  death, break up with girlfriend.  Me not being who I want to be.  Me failing to live up to my own standards.  A desire to be a good person, and the desire to live a life that matters. 

At the end of the day no one gives a SHIT if I ever get my PR's except me. 

So I feel I got the spark back.  It has been missing. 

That my friends is good for me. 

I am going to get some miles in with Jerry at 7:30.  First I am going to drink some coffee, and get some miles before the miles.  It is a new day and a new Steve.  It is never too late to re-invent yourself.  I am no different, except maybe I want to be just a little bit better runner, with just a little more drive. 

WOOOOP    WOOOOOOOOOOP!!!    :)

That is it for today!!!    :)

Thanks for reading!!!    :)

Hope Everyone has a Great and Awesome Day!!!    :)

xo's!!!    :)

Love You All!!!    :)))

p.s.   I am tracking Marathons and 10 mile races for the first time in my life today with my phone.  Iz be so technologicalllleeeee   wif it.   :P

Love You All   xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo

Ya'All are the best  xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo

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Now for really really cya cya cya    :D   :D 

How stupid is that last line??   LOL.    :D

Movie Day...

Morning all.  How's it going??  I have absolutely nothing to write about today, but you never know what may pop up.  I am going to get a cup of coffee, and I will be right back. 

So yesterday I did something I rarely/never do.  I spent all day watching movies.  I watched a French film of a lady doing an article for "Elle" magazine.  It was about two hookers she interviewed, and became friends with.  How they started, and what it was like and stuff.  I watched "Return of the Pink Panther"  I never saw any of those before.  It was pretty good.  A movie called "The Red Violin"  A few more.  I didn't really plan on doing just that, but I kinda enjoyed it.  I never do that, and to give a day to myself to do just that seemed pretty fun. 

Today, I am going to get my run in early.  I have a ton of housework to do etc...  

Monday I am back to work.  Mostly I don't like taking full weeks off, but I actually enjoyed this one.  I don't know why.  Most of the time I feel lazy when I am on vacation, and maybe guilty for being lazy.  I didn't overwork myself on this vacation, but I am okay with me getting a little bit done each day.  (except yesterday)

Do you ever feel guilty??  I could have should have done more.  That is how I mostly feel while on vacation after the first couple days.  I didn't get that at all this past week.  Made for a rather enjoyable week.  I will be ready to go back to work though.  Get back in my routine.  I am a much better runner in my routine, than when I am out.  I am better with structured days I guess. 

Well, I think I will stop there.  I told you I had nothing, but I could probably go on and on, about all the stupid shit that really makes up my life.  I will spare you.   :)

I am excited for today.  Mostly starting it with an early morning run.  Then clean clean clean, and cook a nice meal.  weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!   :)

That is it for today!!!    :)

Thanks for reading!!!    :)

Hope Everyone has a Great and Awesome Day!!!   :)

xo's!!!    :)

Love You All!!!    :)))

p.s.  I was sore as Hell from the pull ups yesterday.     OUCH

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Ya'All are the best  xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo

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Now for really really cya cya cya   :D    :D  

Some General Thoughts.

So yesterday on my post about pretty much nothing, I said this blog was weird this week.  I guess I want to clarify that.  For a long time, it seems this thing was getting pretty heavy, and now it really isn't at all.  The thing I thought about this morning was this blog was really pulling hard in a way, and now it isn't.  What does that mean to me??   It means we have time.  I guess I said that before. 

Did we pull in vain??  No, because this is going to work out.  Life goes on.  As you all know life has some hard stuff to deal with.  That is what we do.  we deal with life.  We don't pretend everything is always great, because we are living this thing.  Not all things we go through are easy, and we don't always fell all rah rah. 

Sometimes we do though. 

Want to know some of my motivation problems??  I can boil it down to one little statement.  At the end of the day (life) nothing really matters.  All we strive for doesn't mean squat.  Now that is a tough pill to swallow.  It was a tough thing to learn, and the thing Solomon I don't think knew, was it doesn't have to be a sad thing.  Maybe he did know.  He did say eat, drink, and be merry, for that is your lot in life. 

One of the hard things in life is us.  Trying to figure out us.  There is who we want to be, and who we want people to think we are.  Then there is the real us, the one we battle.  I am this way, but I don't want to be.  In other words you don't accept yourself.  You are not who you want to be.  The best thing about my journey to this point here, is I accept myself.  I am going to be made a certain way, but that is after this thing I have to do. 

This is good enough for me.  The way I am, I am not afraid to show who I am.  All the dark little secrets that make up who we are, I am not afraid to hold up to the light.  It seems like such an easy thing huh??   That is the journey though.  Us holding the darkness within us to the light.  The darkness is afraid of the light.  Why??   because there is this great sword.  We cannot survive the sword can we??

Rock, paper, scissors,  Forgiveness beats the sword. 

Complicated huh??  A lot to get through huh??   Yep,  none are smart enough to make their own path.  Many haven't even taken the first step.  We have a long way to go on this impossible journey, but the lesson of the camel through the eye of the needle is all things are possible.  :)

That is it for today!!!    :)

Thanks for reading!!!    :)

Hope Everyone has a Great and Awesome Day!!!    :)

xo's!!!    :)

Love You All!!!    :)))

p.s.  I got a little run in yesterday, and some pull ups.  Pull ups are hard again.   ;)

Love You All   xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo

Ya'All are the best  xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo

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Now for really really cya cya cya    :D     :D  

Back To Normal?? Me?? Yeah Right!!

Good Morning all.  I went to bed early last night.  I am on vacation, so it was actually at my normal time.  I went to bed a little before 8:00.  As you know, or as you may tell, this is my time.  I love this early morning/middle of the night time.  I don't know why, and one thing I can say about it is, I am lucky to be like this, and to pretty much feel like this every morning. 

This week my blog has been a bit weird to me.  That probably means it has been normal to you.   :)   Give me a stay up late to watch MNF, and a stay up late the next night to watch 3 hours of "The Big Bang Theory" and things get a bit out of whack for me I'd say. 

One thing I can say is I am having a GREAT relaxing time this staycation.  I get a little bit done around the house, and get a lot of relaxing.  Our house is like 90% the way we want it now too.  You can always do some detail cleaning here and there, but we are actually organized.  We don't have a lot of clutter, and the stuff we want to just throw out is organized in a corner of our garage to throw in the regular garbage every week.  It may take a couple months. 

What is not to like?? 

Anyway just a short little update.  I think I will make a cup of coffee, and read my book now, or maybe watch a movie.  We shall see. 

Have a Great one ALL!!!    :)

That is it for today!!!    :)

Thanks for reading!!!    :)

Hope Everyone has a Great and Awesome Day!!!    :)

xo's!!!    :)

Love You All!!!    :)))

p.s.  I got a little run in yesterday in a cool drizzle.  Perfect running weather.  :)

Love You All  xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo

Ya'All are the best  xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo

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Now for really really cya cya cya   :D    :D 

WOAH!!! I am Human...

WOW,  I had such a good Monday.  It was so productive, and it knocked me out.  Yesterday, I did very little.  Well little, for me.  I did dishes (twice) laundry, and well...  oh,   I cooked dinner too, and that was it.  I read, and kept falling asleep. 

It took me a while, but after around 12 hours, I figured I caught a cold.  I was a bit sick.  SHEESH!!!   been a while.  I must have had a low grade fever too, because I was hot last night, and Lisa said it wasn't hot.  She told me I must have had a fever break. 

I feel better already today though.  I only have been in bed for like 6 hours, a little tossing and turning, so I guess I will probably try and get some more sleep. 

What was supposed to be my first week of "real" solid training will be put on hold.  No sense getting all crazy, when I feel a bit under the weather.  I am just doing the base thing anyway.  Real training doesn't start til after Jan. 1.  I got time. 

I decided to start doing push ups and pull ups too.  Outlooks are always better without battling a cold.  Motivation too. 

So here is to good Health for all.  Life is way more better that way.   :)

Laterz Taterz.   :)

Blog Update.

I got nothing today.  I am on vacation, and going back to bed. 

Have a good one all.  :)

xoxo