Mornin'!

Lots going on: thanks for the update on Mustang Sally and DaveinAA.  Hoping all goes well, and pshew, here's to early detection.

Holly--doncha wish you could somehow combine one's allotted share of injuries with other times, e.g., like when you had the oral surgery anc couldn't run?  But 2 weeks isn't bad, you're right.  Maybe it will give you a good rest all over, you know, make you more resilient over all.

Erika asked: "Aamos, he can always save up again for the hearing aids, right? If the bike is a good one at a good price (is it?), then maybe he shouldn't pass it up? And hey, he got up and said what he wanted, that should count for something?"

Answer: yes, for sure, lots of points in his column.  The problem with saving for the HAs is twofold:

1. We may need counseling if the HAs aren't upgraded, as he thinks he is faking it and is not, e.g., nodding or saying yes when he really doesn't hear.  This is ok when I say something like: "That Mookie Betts is sure something, isn't he?"  But not when I say: "So I'll stop at Publix on the way home and you'll go to CVS--and remember to get Ibuprofen and my allergy pills, ok?"

2. I may lose my voice, as a consequence of the above is me speaking in stentorian tones whenever we have a conversation.

And there is no bike yet, just the yen to get one.  Which again, I support.   We had a plan; first, replace his car with a 'new to us' one.  He did all the shopping, settling on a 2012 Honda.  Check.   Second was/IS the HAs upgrade.

OK, got us going, will try to check in later.  Loving Thursday, hope you are too.  And the peonies (or gardenias, whatever grows near you.).  Superb advice.

Hiya Patriots, glad to see you!

So I propose an exception to the running in the rain taboo, as it was lightly raining this am, which in SW FL is welcome, as the temps stayed in the 70s and my run was delightful.  Another 10K,slow but fun.

I took advantage of the 50° temps and did my longer run today instead of waiting until Saturday. I did 10 instead of my planned 9 miles.  It was painfully slow and I was tired, but my legs actually felt ok.  Just need to get my heart & lungs to keep up.

My mind needs to get in the game too. I don't feel very good until I get past halfway and then I magically start feeling better. That has to be all mental.

It was first double digit run since last October.

Halloo!

Amy - my friend the avid bicyclist says you can get wonderful deals on used bikes if you look carefully - very expensive bikes for great prices.

45 minutes of PT and weights and core for me today.

Hi, All -

I need to go back and see what's been happening.  Again, I'm out of the loop due to . . . . I can't say laziness.  I haven't had any extra work for about a week now and it has been wonderful to go home after work and NOT get on a computer.  Alas, I got work yesterday, but that's okay.  A steady flow is good.

On Saturday, I swept the Grasshopper Peak Redwood Run 30k - ugh!!  That course is brutal, no bones about it.  4,268 feet of elevation gain, and almost all of that is within the first 10.5 miles.  It was hot and muggy and the ambulance had to be called for 2 people who weren't fairing so well with the heat.  One lady, the front woman runner, blacked out about half a mile from the finish, she was pushing so hard in the heat.

But I found no bodies on the course, so that was good for me.  As the sweep, I cut about 10 min off my time from last year, but then I didn't have a puking event this year, either.   There were a couple of rangers patrolling the course, and I sure was glad to see one of them about half a mile or so from the top.  It's kinda eery knowing there's no one coming behind you and if something happens to you . . . I did get kinda shaky about a mile from the top, but I wasn't worried as I knew I just needed to slow down until I could get to the aid station and dump water on my head.  This will probably end up being a regular gig for me.  It's an "easy" way to give back to a sport I love so much.

Not much else going on here.  There's a group of us ladies who are going to do an evening/night run this coming Saturday.  I figure with enough of us making noise, any potential animal life in the vicinity will head the other direction.  None of us participating have done a night trail run before, so I'm guessing we're going to be a bit slow.  But that's okay.  I just want to get at least a little bit of experience under my belt before PYP at the end of July.

And I, too, am looking forward to the relay next week.  It'll be a nice 4-day weekend with friends. 

Okay - I gotta get my lunch eaten.  Enjoy the rest of your week ~

MTA - I went back and read Henry's post about Mustang Sally.  My prayers will be with them, and it makes me happy I have a colonoscopy scheduled for the end of the month.

 

My ex has a hearing issue that seemed to get much worse about 3 years before he left.  He wouldn't get tested.  He could be sitting right beside my son and not hear him.  I had to repeat myself 3 times pretty much for anything I uttered, each time louder, until of course it sounded like I was yelling. I imagine it's not so fun to be yelled at, like the person is angry at you when they aren't.  And the act of speaking loudly seems to change your physiology so that you feel agitated.

 

Good points.  My FIL was here the week before last, and he is very hard of hearing, and I have no ideal exactly how often he heard us vs. just nodding.

Hello everybody!

I slept through the whole night, last night, without getting up once!  It's been a long time since I've done that.  I'm surprised I didn't wet the bed.

When I was a kid, we had a family friend who wore hearing aides.  My brother and I would start mouthing our words during a conversation and the poor guy would quickly turn his hearing aids up, then we'd start talking really loud and he'd have to turn them down real quick.  I don't think he liked us very much.  And it's, probably, why I have two hearing impaired grandkids, today.

I mowed the lawn after work...it's not as fun as running.

Okay--I guess that's all I got.  See ya!

HEARING AIDS

amy -

Holly probably knows all about it but, at least out here in Washington, some of the medicaid private add-ons provide $4,000-$5,000 hearing aids so maybe the bike would be a good idea right away after all because hearing can always be enhanced (i think) but, once age starts slowing down cycling muscles, there's not much that can be done to try to make it possible to keep on keeping up with faster cycling friends again.

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zigs - how come you were running alone instead of just following the last-place runner as I've had the pleasure of keeping the company of more than one sweeper over the latter years of my trail running.  All's they had to do was pull the red-flagging down that was marking the running route along the way.  Fortunately, though it's happened in some editions of same races in years I did not enter, I've never seen an ambulance nor has anyone ever needed one in any of the trail races I've done over the years. whew. .