[Wednesday: 4 miles in the early AM; Saturday: 5 miles, about 2 miles of walking]
My running this summer has been pitiful. The Saturday running group, probably the last 3-4 times over there I’ve mixed running and walking. I start off pretty good, but after a couple of miles I just don’t have much gumption.
Some of it is the heat and humidity. When I have two trickles from the bill of my cap, usually I’m not good for much more.
And some of it is just being too fat and getting old. I think I’ve lost about 5 pounds from my peak, but that isn’t enough to make me light on my feet. I have a long way to go. Today while I was running I was thinking of that scene in A Christmas Carol where the Ghost of Marley visits Scrooge. He says, “These are the chains I forged in life!” And that sums it up pretty well.