Biking, barefoot marathon and water balloons

On my bike ride home Tuesday some rowdy young men hung out the car as they drove up behind me and I suddenly felt a punch on my road side shoulder. But it wasn't a punch. They threw a water balloon at me but it hadn't burst. If it had I would have been happier as it was a hot ride. Instead they only left me with a sore shoulder. Since I knew I needed to forgive those who sinned against me, I gave them a thumbs up for effort. :-)

I ran a barefoot marathon this week, but it was over the past five days. This is the most I have ever run in a week, shod or not. I'm only suffering a small blood blister on the forefoot. There are only four more weeks until the local 12 mile race. I have five months until the local marathon though. I'm still biking every day to work. In order to beat the heat I go for my run right after my ride in. I hope that counts for something in the upcoming sprint triathlon at the end of the month. I concluded on this morning's run that since I'm such a slow runner, and incapable of finishing a marathon in an impressive time, the angle of running it barefoot compensates for my turtle-like ways. Barefooting provides an obvious excuse for a sloth's pace.

On another fitness angle, I'm still land-meat free. I gave up beef and chicken for Lent and have kept with it. I eat fish and dairy but mostly bread, rice and beans, fruit and salad with no apparent suffering in my fitness training. I recently read about work week vegetarians who are weekend meat eaters, which intrigues me. I may try that at some point.

Disclaimer: All of my bizarre fitness endeavors are not to be copied unless you are willing to take responsibility for your own suffering. Just because some guy on a blog says he does this stuff doesn't mean the stuff will work for you....

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