Saturday's Workout and Weekend

Well, kids, on Friday afternoon I flew to Lost Wages. Took me about 10 hours total, between driving and flying to Atlanta, and then flying in. But I got to spend all of Saturday with my dear friend, Susan, and got to meet her SO, Wolfgang.

I stayed up way past my bedtime on Friday to talk to Susan about some of the stuff I've been blogging about. I've discovered I don't want anything from anybody right now. It may be hard for some people to deal with, but I'm not going to worry about it.

On Saturday morning, Susan dropped me off at a gym to run 2 hours. I decided on a treadmill run since it would keep me honest to not go too hard, plus I was tired, so the treadmill would keep me at a decent pace, and I just didn't have the planning fortitude to find someplace else to run. So I'm on there for maybe 2 minutes, and I have a power outage. In my CD player, that is. Damn it, I can't run 2 hours on a treadmill with nothing! So I called Susan, and nice person that she is, she delivered me some new batteries, and I was back in business!

I set the treadmill to a 6mph (10' per mile) and just ran. There was a guy lifting weights before I started, and we kept eyeballing one another sort of like who is going to last the longest? Well, that would be ME, of course! I can outwork anyone! He was taking all sorts of rest anyway, so he could have spent less than 1/2 his time in there.

I managed to have my floaty legs as I ran, and it didn't feel hard until about the last 10 minutes. But it wasn't that my legs were toast--I was just jet-lagged, tired, and messed up. Next, we went to Terrible's Casino for the buffet lunch, and I had a mimosa and a beer. That pretty much set me up.

Next we went to Tacopa, CA, to spend some time in the hot springs bath. It was me, Susan, Wolfgang, and Wolfgang's friend, Myron. We all got naked and went in. I am not shy, so I could care less we were naked. We only lasted about 15 minutes even though we could have stayed in for 1 hour. That water was HOT!!!

Then we went to a date farm, that was in this really cool area where you go into some of the mountains. It was nice and cool down there. They put old shirts on the dates so the birds don't eat them. Looks kinda funny on palm trees, but necessary. I bought some really good dates to bring home, and tried part of a "date shake," which was a little too rich for me. We drove back to Pahrump (where Susan lives), and then later, Susan, Wolfgang and I had dinner at a local Mexican joint with margaritas. They were GOOD!!!

I could have stayed up all night talking again, but I needed to catch a 7AM flight, so at 8:30 Susan and I bagged it so we could get up at 4:30. My body woke me up about 1/2 hour before to use the bathroom, as I was still on CST. Got to the airport, went through the X-rays, and they confiscated the miniature pyramid Susan had given me. I was going to put one or two Barbie dolls in there to meditate. Oh well, good thing I hadn't become attached to it.

I am finally back home, and fuck, I'm registered in Ironman Florida 2006 care of Shelley McKee. I actually hope I don't end up going because I have to do Ironman Hawaii right before it, but it's nice insurance nonetheless. Looks like I'll be doing 2 Ironman races next year either way!!!

I am wearing pink pajamas as I write, and I've ordered some more pink things which should come next week, and I am tired, but life is good, but as always BETTER IN PINK!!!