I just took it easy. Cooked some food (ravioli, saut\u00e8ed spinach, more Italian meatlessballs “polpette senza carne???”) It was a nice day, it was an easy day. Had to drive my mom around for a bit. Another running person wrote on his blog about how he’s going to pass 2k miles this year today. I can’t decide if I run too much or don’t run enough. But he’s been running for much longer than I. This is all relatively new to me you have to remember.
\nWhen I was a teenager, through college and most of my adult life, running was something you did during other activities. Baseball, soccer (let’s properly call it football), rugby, it was always something else, running was not the focus and I only ran enough in train and play. So running is totally new to me as an activity still. Maybe in a few years I’ll decide 2k miles per year is for me. But I’m surviving on what I’m doing now that’s for sure.
\nOver the next year I want to focus on overall strength and well-being, I need to do regular cross-training type exercise. Weights, aerobics, yoga, things like that. It’s getting to be that time of year to start thinking about these things. Therefore I am, and I think I have a decent plan forming.
\nOther than that, this weekend should be fun, the plan is to wake up early and participate in a free event about an hour away from here, then Sunday morning is the Trumbull Pumpkin Run 5k. I also want to buy and carve a pumpkin, I haven’t carved a pumpkin in years and I want to try something and use a new technique. If it turns out well, I will share with all of you. It’s odd, I dislike horror, but I enjoy Halloween. I don’t mind dark things, I just don’t like gory, prurient, slasher flicks and shit like that.
\nSpeaking of which, I was going through some boxes and came across my Dungeons and Dragons books, not just the books to play 2nd Edition, but some of the novels. There were some good ones, and some horrible ones. But they had one kind of horror genre, Ravenloft, and I always enjoyed those. I need to find some people to play some D&D with again. I miss exercising my creative side like that. So that’s where I’m at, yep I’m a nerd, and I run. So have fun, keep running, and remember, if Gil can run, then so can you!<\/p>\n