Kettle+Lazy Sunday+Memorial Day

I'm in full taper mode for the Kettle Morraine 100, love, love the taper. I spent the whole weekend in San Francisco this past weekend and it was a nice break from all the racing in different venues and training in Marin. I don't remember the last time this has happened. My workout this weekend consisted of one single 3 hour run on Sunday and time on the sauna for heat training (I'll speak more about the heat training on a separate post). Today I was supposed to join a group for a Sunday swim in the bay but I slept in instead. Seems like I made the right decision since supposedly there was a shark at Aquatic Park today. I don't believe it but I'll know more this week. In fact the biggest workout I did today was a marathon session on the phone with my mom, serves me right for not calling for weeks. My mom can talk like I run. She confessed to me that not only does she read my blog religiously but she reads all the comments and reads the blogs of the folks that have commented on my site. "That Marcy, she's so funny" she remarked during our conversation, then she added "I love Bullrunner's blog and all those Filipino blogs you have listed on your sidebar. Running wasn't big in the Philippines when I was growing up". She had me on the phone for 2:12. Marathons have been run within that time. My mom can talk like I run, did I say that already? If all goes according to plan, I finish KM100 the day of her birthday. If I finish I may give her my finisher award but I don't know what she would do with it.

Anyway I want to wish you all a happy Memorial Day. Today at church, a long time member and a friend broke down confessing a guilt he has carried for 3 years. He's one of those special operative types who get dropped behind enemy lines and he has anguished over a situation that I believe was out of his control. I for one am glad he is still with us and I am thankful for him and all our troops. To my step dad who spent 22 years in the Navy, much respect and love always. A Hash House Harrier in his younger years, the doctors have advised him many times to stop drinking and smoking and he has stopped and started just as much. Dad you are one stubborn guy but I want you to know that every Memorial Day I think of you first and I don't think that will ever change.

Lastly, much support and cheering to my good friend Rangsiwan who is on the run portion of Ironman Brazil right now, YOU GO LADY!!!. You got this! At the finish line is her fiance B and her parents. It's too early to say congratulations so instead I'll have another glass of red wine while she guts it out there. Woof, the marathon segment of an Ironman, painful.