If I can go that distance

I could get used to these 4 day weekends.  Get some runs in, a bit of kayaking and fishing, do the stuff needed, and general walkabout.  I am getting close.  I can smell the inside of the old work truck I'll own with cool stuff inside it.  Stuff like old ball hats, gloves, and lures.  Maybe even an emergency camping set-up.  Stopped in where the Wife works today to pick up ice cream and a chicken sandwich.  She's thinking fishing later today so I may have to blow off a chore or two.  As long as I finish weeding the garden later I'm good with that.

I did 3 x 6k in 50 minute segments today.  Loop 1 road 42:54, Loop 2 trail 43:58, and Loop 3 road 41:56 in the pouring rain.  I was going to go farther, but have to save some juice.  The trail loop needed effort.  One could easily slide back to 8:00 minute 1k splits and leave a scant 2:00 before the next segment.  I recognized some work needs done here.  The deer flies were terrible, even with a Penn State stocking cap and my trusted hoodie.  They were bouncing off me they were so thick.  Even getting under my glasses and occasionally getting in behind the neck.  Worse than a German Shepherd on a rib roast bad.  So I opted for the road the last loop.  Good thing because it poured and with glasses on it is tedious.  Hated it!  Weather is always the equalizer.  In the future fantasy world where one ambles along strong as bull, one seldom considers how ponderous weather can be.  I was drenched anyway after running the first two loops.

Running slow is hard work.  For one it makes you slower.  For two it takes forever to cover a few miles.  For three you have to do an incredible amount of it to possibly make any endurance gains.  All I'm slowly accomplishing is trying to get used to mastering the time continuum.  Can I vacuum pack time?  The beatings will continue until morale improves.  Who trains like this for a race they will probably never get in? 

Reading other blogs, apparently I'm supposed to be resting quite a bit.  Look I get it.  Let your body absorb the training.  That's probably great advice for people who actually can get somewhere in running.  Thing is when you are only a running bum, all that nonsense means little.  Pile it high if you can.  Figure out the stuff that goes along with it along the way.  I figured out today I am currently way over my head for a backyard ultra.  Not sure how to overcome some of the cards I have in this hand, but if I can stay reasonably consistent, ramp up a bit of mileage, and have a few key workouts, maybe I won't be another bum from the neighborhood if I get in.