Senior Olympian Sprinter

I am in Ohio this week for my 6 days of fun in the great outdoors chasing white tail deer.   We use shotguns with slugs in Ohio and hunt in farming country with a pretty good mix of brush added.    I have hunted with the same group since I started hunting deer, which would be the early 80's.    We treat the hunt as a team sport and try to get everyone a chance to kill something.   That is not always possible, but we try to get you a chance, and if you are a bad shot, you just get chance you do not have to drag anything.   I was driver on Monday and did not sit--we had 5 'school kids' that hunted and we worked on getting them some chances. They did get some shots with no luck.   Monday, Tuesday and Saturday are usually days we work with the school kids to kill some deer.   On Monday I wore my heart rate monitor and left it on for 16 hours-- that was when I got dressed in the morning, til I had finished...

Birthday boy today!   The birthday has kinda got snowed over by a lot of other events, but that is fine with me.  We closed on our new house on Thursday and are working on  getting our move organized.   The previous owners are still in the process of moving out and should be out by the latest on Monday.  If they get out sooner, we will start hauling stuff into the house.   Linda and I leave for Thanksgiving with the kids on Wednesday and I will not return for about 18 days.  That is a probelm that will delay our move until mid December.   Kinda sucks because we are anxious to get into our 1880 Folk Victorian.    So we wait and plan. .    I have been doing some working out.  Today I did my heavy legs with fronts squats up to 245 pounds and some power cleans up to 155 pounds.   Felt good and my strength is improving slightly as expected in the winter.  Thankfully ...

We are in the process of buying a house, which in itself is an exhausting process, and are getting down to final days of providing endless streams of data upon demand  for the mortgage company--aka "Big Brother"    I think we have every infinite detail done, and got to meet the  present owners yesterday.  They are a retired couple and Dan was a commander in the Navy and flew jets.   They moved extensively during his career and are settling in Austin, TX.    Linda bought some furniture and fixtures and I worked on figuring out where all the mechanical stuff was located and how it worked--guy stuff.   I am finally getting the excitement cranked up a little, I think we have everything covered and nothing can happen to kill the deal.  We laid out how our bedroom would be situated and finalized which room would be the spare bedroom, master suite and guest bedroom.   We are anxious to get som...

Yesterday afternoon was gorgeous and I wanted to do some running on a track before the weather finally made it to winter.    Linda and I went to one of the closer tracks at Ravenwood High school and when I pulled up I said to her " I forgot my shoes".    I typically run in my rubber soled shoes in the off season and I had planned to do that today and had my shoes laid out, but I did not put them in the car.   OOPS.    So what to do?    The football field was still lined and was in good shape.  So, I put on my KT tape on each foot and added some athletic tape to hold it in place on the bottom of my feet,  and ran in the grass.   I have done this before and I enjoy the feeling of the feet in the grass.   I actually just run with shorts--no shirt or shoes--no problem.   I did 8 x 100 meters at an average of 16 seconds.  I ran the last 100 meter at 14.2 seconds, I was impressed...