Stepping out the door for the first run in awhile. We'll see how the hiking helped or hurt my running. I don't feel like it hurt anything.

QOTD: Name 3 things that you have found positive from the current "lockdown" situation:

1. Family time is wonderful.

2. I have been able to spent an enormous amount of time outdoors.

3. I can get quite a bit done from home.

Happy Star Wars Day. I'm ready to watch the last Star Wars movie tonight. It comes out on Disney+.  Saw it in the theater with DS and it was a pretty good conclusion to the whole story.

I was diligently entering my exact mileage for GVRAT and looks like the rounded up.  I'm at 27.9 after 3 days and they have me at 28 

Plan on keeping the streak alive and doing a few today and then big run tomorrow. Trails were too wet up here over the weekend, so hopefully they'll dry out some.

QOTD:  Honestly, not a lot. Can't see my Mom and 2 of the 3 kids. Laid off most of my staff and working a reduced schedule for much less pay. Missed 2 vacations and DD#2 was supposed to graduate on Thursday with her BS RN. Now to top it off DD#1 is pretty sure she's postponing her wedding in September because it's too uncertain right now.  I get outside the same as before, but have to find out of the way trails to stay away from people venturing outside (which I'm glad they are getting outside). So not to be "Debby Downer", but this shit can end.  But to pick 1 thing, looks like global greenhouse emission will be at lowest level in decades due to people not driving and factories not at 100%.

 

If my pay was impacted, I would  have been a basket case. I hope it ends soon.

Hate sounding like a downer, but we just had a Zoom conversation with DD#1 and her fiance last night, so DW and I are pretty upset about wedding moving to 2021.

Got in 10 this morning...perfect weather.  55 degrees and a brilliant sun rising.  Birds chirping, slight breeze.  Through four days, I am over 50 miles for GVRAT.  Most of it is running but some walking miles too.  Tomorrow either needs to be a rest day or a cut back day.

Sorry AT on the wedding postponement.  That sucks.  I know anyone that has their wedding scheduled in April/May have been rocked by this.

QOTD: 1.) Family time has been good but also driving us crazy too.  Our kids are 15, 13, and 10 so it shouldn't be hard to imagine why.  But over the weekend our venture out to ride bikes was just what we needed.  Yesterday myself and two of the three kids went to play mini golf.  I was surprised to see it open but since they opened up golf courses in PA, I guess mini golf counts.  Never had so much fun paying mini golf. 2.) More weekend time to run.  3.) saving $ on gas I guess.  But out electric and water bills are up so it balances out I guess.

Have a great day!

Nice weather this morning for the 2 mile dog wog. Sunny today, mild, but winds are supposed to kick up this afternoon. I will squeeze in some mile at some point. Maybe just the road or local trail.

Had a really fun sort of surreal run yesterday up at the Birdsboro Watershed. Decided to hit some remote trails on the western side of the open space to avoid the quarantiners. So instead of starting the run heading down to the reservoir I headed up the big hill, topped out, then looked for the trails that wandered the western side of the slope. It had been a few years since I ran these trails and back then they were "new" and barely cut in. The mountain bikers have since worn them in nicely and they were easy to follow but it all looked so different. It was a wonderful spring green in the surrounding forest with many patches of mountain laurel. I had wandered about 30 minutes and felt like I had no idea where I was, since I was expecting to cross the trail I had started off on by this time. So I just kept following the path as it wandered down the slope, sort of mesmerized, thinking I had found a new trail system in the park, and I spied a small lake down to left of me and thought, oh, a place I have never seen before out here. So after letting Baker stop at a creek to get a drink, we jogged toward the reservoir and all of a sudden I recognized the place and knew exactly where I was at.. it's the normal lake we get to after less than a mile, but it took us 40 minutes on this route and for a time being I felt like I had no idea where I was at but it was the route I had planned. Strange. We did a few more miles after that and had major success avoiding the quarantiners.

Played some golf on Saturday. Walked and carried my clubs instead of riding. Holes had a pvc tube the circumference of the cup so the balls would not drop in the hole (haha). That was strange at first, but you could pretty much tell if you holed a putt with the added bonus of calling any shot that hit the pvc tube holed. Actually with the tube in the cup, I found myself more aggressive putting and chipping and had many up/downs.

QOTD: Being a work at home person since forever life is much the same for me, other than restrictions to travel, dine/out, weirdness of grocery/food shopping, etc. So I can't think of anything new that is super positive.

Today is a SRD, but I may go out for a walk later.  Just to get outside for a while and add a mile or two to my GVRAT.

"May the 4th" is my DD's birthday so we'll call her later.  We dropped off a small cake for her the other day, but she said she ate it already.  (That's my girl.)  

qotd:

1) DW and I are just spending alot of time together (we get along so that's good, although she's calling this a 'trail period' for when I retire).

2) My running mileage has gone up but with nothing to train for there no pressure to push the pace each day and my back is liking that. 

3) Don't have to drive to/from work so I'm saving on gas and tolls.

No run beach day...had sone hip pain so was ok with a TURD.  I am at mile 11 and still really have no idea how to track where I am at but just waiting for them to figure it all out.

Qotd:  1) Thankful I have an income that hasn’t changed.  2) The realization how important friends and just casual acquaintances are.  3) Thankful that my young nieces and nephews are still doing ok financially during this period.