Senior Olympian Sprinter

I am in Tulsa, OK this week and guess what?  It is windy!  The wind is a constant in this part of the world.  We had some decent weather today and I headed to the Memorial High School field in Tulsa for some running on their 6 lane track.   Decent weather here  is 15 to 18 MPH wind, 11% humidity and 60 degrees at 4:00 PM.    The wind on this track is typically right down the front stretch, which is also shady.  To stay as warm as possible, I do my work in the sun on the back stretch.  Today I worked on 100 meters repeats on the synthetic turf into the wind.  I brought my parachute, but it was not needed.   I ran four 100 meter repeats  into the wind and after getting some pretty good work, I got out my stopwatch and timed two 100 meters into the wind--15.94 and 15.90 were the times.   I then ran two sets with the wind  with similar effort and  that was different.   With the wind, the times were 14.73 and 14.60 seconds !   The moral of the story-- the wind kicks your butt while

Last weekend Linda and I made it to Vegas for a quick two nights to celebrate her 16th 39th birthday.  It was as advertised and we had a great time and were just exhausted when we made it home for the Super Bowl  game.     I napped into the second quarter. The reason for this trip was Van Morrison.  He is a bucket list show for us and he did a couple shows at Caesars Palace and we scored some tickets last July.   The fact that the show was the day after Linda's birthday just made the show that much sweeter.  Van delivered with a 100 minute show with great sound and the band and vocals were really entertaining. His show is a very bluesy.  This bucket list item did not disappoint.  FYI-- the Faith Hill song lyrics echoed thru my head all weekend. "Hey baby, let's go to Vegas, bet on love and let it ride,...." We stayed at the Venetian, which is a very large suite hotel right on the strip and within walking distance of Caesars.  The hotel was a classic Vegas design,