As planned

Saturday morning I got up to do the club run.  It was a “bagel run” where the running store provides breakfast items for free after the run like juice, coffee, bagels and more.  Of course the lure of free food resulted in a big crowd, there might have been 75-100 people there.

I only ran 4 miles, I had not run in somewhere between 3-4 weeks so I was not interested in going very far.  When the run first started both of my knees were not feeling very happy with various jolts of pain shooting through each of them.  Luckily as I warmed up my knees felt better. I wound up running a much faster pace than I expected, averaging right around an 8:30 mile.  After the 4 miles I was pretty much soaked from head to toe from the thick, humid air.

When I got home I wasted no time before hitting the to do list.  After weeding I hopped on the tractor.  I officially need to mow every week.  The high temps and ample rain has kick started the yard into it’s normal summer growth rate.  Before starting I took the blades off and tried to sharpen them with a small grinding wheel attached to my dremel.  It’s far from an ideal set up to do so and I’m not really sure if it helped much.  The blades are really beat up at this point and need to be replaced.

After a hot mowing session I moved inside to handle all indoor work until heading back outside once again to wash the SSR which was dirty from last weekends road trip. I was in chore mode until right before 4pm.

Saturday night I saw World War Z, the new Brad Pitt film which puts the zombie craze onto the big screen in a big way.  I have never seen a movie that Brad Pitt was in that I did not find enjoyable and this film is no exception.  It was like Walking Dead on steroids, minus the compelling character development of the tv series.

We saw the 3D version which was effective with zombie action.  A couple times I almost pushed my seat back off it’s mounting studs when a zombie popped off at the screen at me.  Imagine humanity mixed with fire ants, that is World War Z.  A-, make sure you don’t have stuff in your mouth during the scary parts.

On Sunday I rounded off my endurance exercise training with a 12 mile bike ride at an average 18.4 mph pace followed by 1600 yards in the pool. I was thoroughly tired when I was done.

I picked up the dogs on the way home as Ali is out of town for a few days.  Dog watching has additional complexity now because Ali has dropped the full time dog daycare.  Today I am running home at lunch to let them out and then tomorrow my mom is lending me a hand by going out to the house to let them out mid-day.

The rest of my Sunday was pretty low key, including  paying bills and watching Horrible Bosses on dvd, a damn funny comedy which gets an A-.

I am well into my Soprano revival, taking down 7 episodes so far.  Watching the show makes me feel even worse about James Gandolfini passing away.  His portrayal of Tony Soprano is amazing.