Hello Runners!   Hi Starr!

I swam 2750 yards this evening - a pyramid of 100-200-300-400-500-400-300-200-100 yards alternating backstroke and freestyle.  Once again I shared a lane with someone but for only the first 900 yards or so, and this time it was a friend of mine whom I know mostly from running, though he is a far superior runner, and little did I know, a swimmer in college thirty-ish years ago.  So tonight I was the one getting the mouthful of water and taking the wake on the chin.  It was quite noticeably easier going once I was able to grab my own lane.  Following the pyramid (2500 yards), I swam a 100 yard IM, the 50 yards each of breast stroke, freestyle, and backstroke.

Additionally, I worked out at the fitness center this morning - a triceps, shoulder and chest workout, which helps explain why my shoulder girdles feel the way they do tonight.   Tomorrow will be a rest day, as I have to be in Rochester (NY) in the morning and will be at Maundy Thursday service in the evening.  450 miles of driving but at least it's a company car, and it's new and comfortable.  And lunch will be Beef on a Weck and chicken wings. 

thanks Steve.

Roch - what gives, for sure.

I though you were going

to say you broke your wrist.

Hope it goes away fast.

Milktruck - if you end up with too much time

in retirement, there's always the daily recap!

(For those who've noted my posts being more frequent, it's part my attempt to have new daily habits as retirement is right around the corner. I've always been here, just not posting in the absence of something interesting to report.)

Starr - fantastic trip.

Sorry about ungrateful DD,

especially since any attempt

to make it better probably won't

and there's nothing do to except

wait it out for as long as it takes,

. . . if ever.

Joe - excellent. It will be fun to see

how it works out, whenever, if ever,

it'd be hard to top what you did in 2019.

Thanks for taking us along the rest

of your Boston experience too.

I'll never think of Paul Revere the same.

What's next?

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Leslie - you're hump-day camel is getting

as famous as the Geico one on Jeopardy.

nbwalker - nice geta from yesterday's

post. Good price too ($36).

Geta are, by far, my favorite footwear.

If I had to wear a single pair of shoes
for the rest of my life, it would be geta.
I’ve worn them for all 26.2 miles in several
Imperial Palace Marathon plus the Hakone

Pass Marathon in snow at the summit pass), etc.

Best of all on Mt. Fuji climbs where, unlike all

but the best hiking shoes, the smooth wood platform

insulates the soles of the feet from the irritation

of the pebble -size pumice on most of the trails.
Have you ever worn any, . . . or the straw waraji
sandals, jika-tabe split toes, zori (flip-flop thongs), etc.

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