5K Training Continued

Comment today on Comments. Blacknat gave me an update today on his progress on his training program. The guy ain't doing so bad. I think he is an older guy around 54 (me too actually) and in one of his comments early on he admitted, to some degree anyway, that he had been a bit of a couch potato for the last several years but was going to make an effort to spring off the couch and change his look and life style. Today he he said he was tired of the gym (me too here lately) and had given it up for a while to just bike ride a bit. He did 62 miles through a State Park in Texas averaging 15 miles an hour. I'm telling you this guy should never change careers! If he quits everything like he quit the gym he would be running Chevron in a couple weeks after the career change. GREAT JOB on quitting!!!! Keep that kind of attitude and you'll be doing the speaking circuit with Lance Armstrong in a few months.

He also commented on the fact that I had been whining about the less than favorable weather here in Western Oregon and that all of the personal comments he had heard over the years from folks that lived here was how the sky's are bluer, the mountains taller and the wildlife plentiful and very diverse, outdoor Mecca. That is in fact true with some clarification on what the tourist brochure prints. The sky's in Western Oregon are incredible when Mother Nature has finished depositing 60-80 inches of rain for the year. The mountains are in fact taller than most places in the U.S. and pristine from almost any vantage point, when the clouds have parted that is. Wildlife in Western Oregon, yep lots of it, if you can find it between rain storms.
 
This is all kind of tongue and cheek. Oregon is a wonderfully diverse State with nearly every climate zone known to man in one part of the State or another. The Oregon coast is one of the best maintained and diverse coastal zones in the World, Temperate rain forest just to the East of that making its way into the Temperate Agriculture belt of the Willamette Valley, on to the sub alpine and Alpine regions of Central Oregon and then the high desert of South Eastern Oregon going down towards Nevada. And don't forget the glaciers, We have more than one in North Eastern Oregon. Not bad all and all. I just get tired of long periods of rain. I grew up on the East side of the state where we would get 350 days of 100% sunshine every year!! Even after 20 years on the West side of the State I miss the sun!!!!!!!!!! 

Training??? Yeah still doing it. Off to the gym in a few hours. I'm re energized by Blacknat!!!! I get to go to the gym because it is raining and I get to go to the gym because I am healthy and getting healthier, I get to go to the gym so one day I can try a 62 mile bike ride in Texas.

Until next time!!!!!!!!!!!