Saturday easy run . . .

I had originally planned to go for a run in the morning on Saturday.  But as things turned out, stuff came up and put a halt to that.  It's only a couple of more weeks for the daughters Sweet 16 bash and apparently we needed to still do some ironing out of some things.  And it had to be taken care of in the morning because the people we needed to meet had other plans for the day.

Well we got that taken care of.  But the daughter and her friend had a barbeque fundraiser they would have to attend a couple of hours later.  So I took them to breakfast. They're cheerleaders and it made sense to them somehow.

After dropping them off at their fundraiser, it was time for me to head to the restaurant. It was my brothers turn to be cook for the day so I knew we would be leaving early.  But it was my moms idea to close.  She figured it being Mothers Day the next day, no one would show up.  Well she called it right.  It was a slow day and we ended up closing shop at 3pm.

My brother is much fitter than I am.  But I'm much more flexible than he is. As an example, if you're familiar with pass-throughs (Click here for a YouTube link) I can get through that just fine.  I'm working on narrowing the grip.  I have five foot pole and at his widest grip, my brother can't even do ONE.  He has to let go of the pole.  That sort of convinced him to start working on his flexibility.

He's been working out with his Merrell Trail Gloves lately even after what happend last year. He attempted the Santa Cruz Half Marathon with them. I warned him he was nowhere NEAR ready for such a long distance in minimalist shoes.  He just finished under the wire, but only because of how fast he was for the first eight miles.  After that, he was in pain.

He calves were cramping up bad and just wanted to sit and keep his legs straight. Good thing we were in my car (2002 New Beetle).  Plenty of room in the front seat.

But he's kept at it all this time . . . at least with working out with them.  Very little running.

Which is why it surprised me that he wanted to run after our duties were completed at the restaurant.  I figured he could work with my current mileage and off we went.  This time he was a bit chafed.  He wore regular boxers and we had to cut the run to about two miles instead of the almost three.  I wasn't expecting to run anyway so a nice easy run was fine for me.

So he was a bit chafed.  He said he could also feel his calves working again and thought he'd be sore.  He will be, but it won't be as bad as last time.  I'll find out how he's doing later when I see him.

Tonight it'll probably be Crossfit. If not, then definitely a run.

GD

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