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Sep. 29th, 2024 08:04 amToday is another long run, 2.5 hours like last week's. I had considered going to Keystone Heights and running the trail, but I don't know if they would need to clean up much from the storm. I decided not to chance it and give crews time to do their work. But since I also do not feel like dealing with moronic drivers on SR21 I'm running on the treadmill again today. I may use the time to catch up on episodes of Old Gods of Appalachia since treadmill running can be deadly boring.
Space Coast is going to be my tenth marathon, with WDW my eleventh. I vaguely started to consider making a "battle jacket" style patch for my hydration vest with hash marks for each marathon race, but I haven't quite decided how to do it. I could always just use fabric paint on the Osprey pack itself, but making a patch out of spare cloth would allow me to remove it for training runs, and switch it to a new hydration vest if/when I get one. I've always enjoyed seeing people wearing something about how many races they've run, especially older-than-me folks with a lot of racing experience.
Or I could make an ACTUAL battle jacket out of cut-up race t-shirts. LOL sounds better than a quilt. Some of my race shirts from my first year of running are starting to get worn - especially the Spud Run one which I wear a lot because I like the logo. I think they still do the Spud Run, it's just a 5k and 10k now with no half marathon.
OH HEY they still do it! :D And you can do both distances for a 15k "challenge." I might do that instead of Gate River Run this spring.
Anyway, enough about running. I started picking up branches in the yard yesterday. One of the thuds we heard was probably a small-ish pine tree in the side yard that had been leaning for a long time. Happily it fell away from the radio tower lines. The power is back on for most of the county, with some people around Keystone Heights proper still without, but we started out with something like almost ten thousand out of power so that's pretty good. Obviously the internet is back online despite all the towers being down, and Fox isn't 100% sure why, since even the ones that still had power were offline and he could only connect to the main server at the FastNet warehouse.
Our new garbage collectors take over this week, and as a special "welcome to Clay County" gift, they get to do yard waste/storm debris pickup, too. Have fun, guys. I never got a chance to call and find out what day our pickup is supposed to fall on, so I have to call over there Monday, or text my neighbor and see if she knows.
Space Coast is going to be my tenth marathon, with WDW my eleventh. I vaguely started to consider making a "battle jacket" style patch for my hydration vest with hash marks for each marathon race, but I haven't quite decided how to do it. I could always just use fabric paint on the Osprey pack itself, but making a patch out of spare cloth would allow me to remove it for training runs, and switch it to a new hydration vest if/when I get one. I've always enjoyed seeing people wearing something about how many races they've run, especially older-than-me folks with a lot of racing experience.
Or I could make an ACTUAL battle jacket out of cut-up race t-shirts. LOL sounds better than a quilt. Some of my race shirts from my first year of running are starting to get worn - especially the Spud Run one which I wear a lot because I like the logo. I think they still do the Spud Run, it's just a 5k and 10k now with no half marathon.
OH HEY they still do it! :D And you can do both distances for a 15k "challenge." I might do that instead of Gate River Run this spring.
Anyway, enough about running. I started picking up branches in the yard yesterday. One of the thuds we heard was probably a small-ish pine tree in the side yard that had been leaning for a long time. Happily it fell away from the radio tower lines. The power is back on for most of the county, with some people around Keystone Heights proper still without, but we started out with something like almost ten thousand out of power so that's pretty good. Obviously the internet is back online despite all the towers being down, and Fox isn't 100% sure why, since even the ones that still had power were offline and he could only connect to the main server at the FastNet warehouse.
Our new garbage collectors take over this week, and as a special "welcome to Clay County" gift, they get to do yard waste/storm debris pickup, too. Have fun, guys. I never got a chance to call and find out what day our pickup is supposed to fall on, so I have to call over there Monday, or text my neighbor and see if she knows.
