Senior Olympian Sprinter

I have been traveling this week to some really cold places and it is not that pleasant.  I had enough guts or craziness ( you may need to choose) to schedule a 3 city trip in the winter.  Traveling in the winter is a crap shoot at best, a storm somewhere in the US can wreck the best laid plans for connections, but it is so damn cold this year that the weather cannot really mess up the flying.   I was in Milwaukee and Green Bay, Wisconsin and those folks have not seen a mud puddle for months, wow !, it is frozen up tight.  I don't miss one second of that stuff.  My rental car had heated seats, so one body part could be kept warm.    I visited a couple of the kids in Milwaukee and they were nearly frozen in place but managing to survive.  I hope they don't lose their will against the cold.  I have been continuing to run on the treadmill and have been upping my speed a little and I am feeling pretty good.  I could have run outside last weekend, but I was really busy planting

The big story last week was about a Missouri basketball player who shoved a fan after the player went into the crowd after a play.  And of course the player is then benched/suspended for several games because he went after a fan physically.  Can't blame the player, if you are getting taunted at by an adult, should be fair game in my mind.  Since everything is about me, I have story from my high school days that also illustrates how fans try to get under your skin.  I played varsity basketball in Ohio in the early 70's and was on a really good team.   We were warming up at an away game and this place did not have a pep band and the noise level was relatively low.  Usually big ball games have a lot of noise and chaos surrounding them.  This team we were supposed to beat handily and we did eventually.     We were doing our lay up drill, which is done one at time and then you return to the end of the line.  During this drill you are really aware of what is going on around you.