rogerdoger

I gave the running a day off yesterday, but was back on it this morning. The weather has changed and its now warm and sunny again, and wow what a difference. I was pouring sweat like a fountain and my heart was working much harder than on those cool days. I still made it twice around the red arrow, but was struggling on the way back and had much longer walking breaks.

Funny side story. On the first lap around the red arrow I pass two women. One is bitterly compaining about her husband and how he is always going off to track events for drag racing and how she never gets to do what she wants to do. On the second lap I past them again, she was still in her monologue, berating her husband and how he never does this and never does that. The other woman was reduced to silence and an occasional urr ahh yeah, right. 

Bit of a strange day yesterday. I'd been txting with Toni the last couple of days. She wanted me to take them all up to her moms for a birthday surprise her step dad was laying on. Its really difficult to communicate by txts and the last one I sent was telling her we should meet and talk about this. I had umpteen reservations about why it probably wasn't a good idea me going. I'd meant to get out early and go swim, but it never happened. Ive been playing around on a new writers forum and between the posts on there and it actually doing what Id hoped and motivating me to start writing my book, the day slipped past again. It was nearly 3.00pm by the time I started up the camper to head over to Toni's to talk to her and I had told her Id be there at 2.00. I started the van and it idled then died, started it again and the same thing. Got it going and it died outside the campsite office. The gas gauge was on emptyish, but its been lower. Still it sounded like no gas, so I went in the office and Kevin had a little gas he gave me. She started up and drove fine. Drove to the gas station and filled up.

By the time I got to Toni's I was really late, she was already out picking up Lorran. I drove towards the school to meet them and give them a lift back, but then the van started spluttering again. Met up with Toni and Lorran and Lorran gave me the biggest hug and smile. We got in the van and spluttered back to her house. There is a mechanic opposite her house, so after me taking a bit of a look and having an idea it was shit in the carb, I took it over to the mechanic who thought the same, but couldnt get to it that day and said it was a bear of a job, because the carb is so difficult to get at. This obviously gave me the best excuse for not going with Toni to her parents. She made some jokes about me "fixing" the van to act this way, but she had another lift planned, so it was ok and I left.

On the drive back I thought I really should go try and swim. It was too late to go to the pool, so I headed up to the lake and then decided I should run and then could swim. Its strange how my worse feeling days end up being my best run days. I did two laps round the lake with very little stops and felt really strong, even running the whole of the big climb without stopping. I felt like Im made a breakthrough, from struggling along to powering along, and even had those old familiar feelings of being able to cruise with my mind wandering instead of focused on pain.

I'd talked to Toni about possibly going up to meet her at her parents today. She said she can get a lift back from her step dad if I can't get the van sorted. Ive had another day of doing nothing and sitting in the van either writing, reading, or surfing, but not looked once at the van. It actually has been cloudy and rained a little. Much different from the damn full sunny day that was promised by the totally crap weather service here. I was hoping to get a trip to the beach on the way up to Toni's parents. Now its not looking like there will be a sunny day till late next week.