A Rarity

A “strange” event happened today, all of the children’s activities were cancelled. My daughter had softball tryouts and my son had a flag football game. These were actually cancelled last night do the impending rainstorm. It really wasn’t much of a storm at all and as it turns out the events could have taken place but this did free up a rare Saturday. This would be the “calm” before the storm because next week since my daughter’s tryouts were cancelled they will commence next Saturday along with my son’s tryouts for baseball and a flag football game. We will need to “plan” accordingly as a few of these events overlap and I did offer to assist my daughter during the softball season. I thought this was only fair since I assisted my son’s baseball team in the fall. I thought I would alternate and really if I could be in both places at the same time I certainly would.

I know I can’t make up for the time I lost with my children but I can do my best to be involved with their lives as long as they want me involved. Thankfully both of my children have asked me to help with their sports and I will continue to alternate each season. I was talking to my son today and I told him I think that next fall he will play soccer instead of baseball because I don’t want him to burn out on one sport. I did entertain the idea of having him play full contact football but I think this will be best served in a few more years as he matures. I realize the more active the sport the better it is for my son this is why he really enjoys soccer and hopefully will enjoy the full contact football. My daughter is very happy to continue with softball and I am not concerned with her burning out because she continues to really enjoy softball.

I do plan my early morning workout on the day’s events especially or shall I say exclusively on the weekends. I did plan on working out and yes, I made my way to the gym for a good 10 mile run. This would mark the first time I have run since last Sunday’s marathon and it did feel good running. I do notice a very big difference in how my legs feel after I run and after I cycle. Cycling is much more forgiving on my legs than running but there is something about running that puts my brain in a more meditative state. It would be very interesting to see how the triathlon training turns out in conjunction with me training for another marathon. I did print out another marathon training schedule but this will be incorporated with cycling and swimming.

The next marathon on the schedule is the San Diego Rock n’ Roll Marathon but I really want to do one in the middle of April. There aren’t any local marathons at this time but I just discovered an inaugural event that is scheduled for April 25th but I am not sure if this is an “official” qualifier for the Boston Marathon. I really want to run another marathon and there are a few local marathons at the end of March but there is also a very local triathlon at the same time. I would rather do the local triathlon then and do the marathon a few weeks later. I don’t really want to wait to the end of May to run a marathon but again on the other hand this marathon (San Diego Rock n’ Roll) is one of the better marathons I have run. It would be great to qualify for Boston in April and then run San Diego in May as a “fun run”. Of course I will take this one day at a time and whatever happens will be for the very best.

Since we had the day off from the children’s activities I actually received a massage this morning. I promised myself that I would get a massage after the marathon and I had originally scheduled one for this afternoon. However; when our events got cancelled I moved up my massage appointment. Unfortunately I had originally scheduled an hour and a half massage but because I moved up the appointment I could only receive an hour massage. The massage was very good but I did need that extra 30 minutes, oh well I am very grateful for the massage. I didn’t get a massage after the marathon I ran in Long Beach which was a mistake because this does add to the healing time of my body. I would very much like to get a massage every month but that really doesn’t work with the budget. I am very happy with the massage today and I felt very good afterwards.