Senior Olympian Sprinter

 I have been voting in Presidential elections since I first cast a vote for Jimmy Carter.  In that election cycle, the country was trying to get the Nixon residue off and Carter was something different and hopefully better.   He was and still is a wonderful human being, but his Presidency did not go well.   Oil shortages, inflation and huge unemployment figures and he was a one termer.  He was not able to make any headway against a very stiff headwind.       I am at the point of this election cycle I cannot wait  to cast a vote against the worst President of all time..  The first Tuesday in November cannot get here soon enough.     I do not think we will ever elect anything as bad as this again.  We will not survive a country if we do.    Is Joe Biden the candidate of my choice--probably not.  Is a mafia Don like we have in place now?? NO!  Does Joe have some seasoning as a leader?  Sure does!   Will Joe appoint a bunch of lackies and ass kissers to important government posts?  Probabl

Post race along the Potomac Our daughter and grand daughter came for a visit last week and we finally got to do some visiting during the covid pandemic mess we have been experiencing.  The  grand daughter time was a lot of fun and the high light of the visit was a trip to the National Zoo in DC.   The pandas were inside and we missed them, but there was plenty of other animals to watch.  Everyone was masked up and it was not too crowded and this is way life is going to be for a while.   A lot of strollers and babies were in the zoo that day.   Betty and I had planned a 5K event that we could run while she was in town.  She does 5K's on a regular basis in the Milwaukee area and I do one a year.  The Steelers were doing a virtual 5K to support their charities and I thought it would be something to do in terms of racing.  My last race was in October of 2019 and it was a qualifier in Tennessee and the 2020 time sheet was still blank!!!   Aside from being injured, this was my lightest r

I have been wearing an Oura ring for several weeks.  It is basically a small computer/body sensor on your finger and it uses blue tooth to connect this data to your phone. I wear it all the time and it needs charged about every 5 to 6 days.   Oura comes from Europe and they cost $300 currently.  Originally, I purchased the ring to study my sleep habits and see if I was sleeping well.    Oura is designed to measure your heart rate, body movements, and temperature and with that data it will develop a graph   to log your sleep and body recovery.     After a few days I started to realize how the data is designed to function and the program will start giving feed back on your sleep quality and let you know if you actually recovered from the previous days activities.    If I do two really hard days of climbing in a row, my sleep patterns will so different from days without a heavy work load.  The program will suggest a day off the recover.  The data really helps your recovery by telling you

T    Great question, but I know for sure this is the longest tunnel I have ever been trying to get through.  2020 is a year we will all remember and at the same time, want to forget.  It reminds me of something that went horribly wrong in the past  and someone ALWAYS brings up the incident when you see them--particularly family members.   It is just too strange and painful to keep buried.  My racing season has gone up in smoke and may not return until next summer.   I have been struggling to get any real training done and the only outlet has been some hiking in the area.  Harpers Ferry had been referred to prior to the Civil War as "The Hole". Not a nice moniker, but it is really accurate.  The river beds in HF are around 220 foot of elevation and we live at 500 feet on top of the hill in town.  If you cross either river, you have a mountain to scale.    The Maryland side has a 1442 foot peak and the Virginia side has a 1138 foot peak within an hour hike of our house. I have