11.23.2008

Complete and utter shutdown

I took Mrs. T to a play at the college last night, "They're Playing Our Song." It ran late. I watched a lot of it with my ears open and eyes shut, up in the balcony.

Yes, the mighty have fallen completely off the wagon. I did not even show up for the Sunday morning run today. That makes it a full seven day week since I ran last.

I substituted a brisk 2-1/4 mile walk with Mrs. T to have breakfast at #1 son's restaurant ... after sleeping in ... right past the 5:30 wake up, one-eye-balling the clock and rolling over; right past the 6:55 readjustment of the pillow and realization that the gang was forming up to run ... and through the 8:10 a.m. observation that they might be running right down the street from me at that moment.

Ah yes, I slept in 'til 8:45 and I think I am mighty pleased about it.

Breakfast was excellent. Service was personable. Then we stole the waiter's truck and went off to Home Depot for some plants.

5 comments:

Joe said...

Boy, hope the waiter got a nice tip for letting you take his truck. I'm thinking a full tank of gas might be appropriate....

Unknown said...

I've been doing that same thing in the morning as well. All except for the going out for breakfast part.

jeanne said...

whoa. i hope you're not catching something...like MY anti-running germs.

Runner Susan said...

You know, if I had been smart and taken a week off when I was feeling like death, I might not have died. Now, I'm just barely starting to feel alive again. You = smart.

Darrell said...

This is the way some weeks go. Walking to breakfast and a trip to HD for some gardening sounds like a nice way to end the week/or start a new one.