Rotten Ronnies....

A funny thing happened to me this morning. I had to get up early for a day long sales meeting and on the way to work I went through the McDonald's drive thru to get my morning coffee and bran muffin. It's part of my daily routine.

This morning I had lots of business stuff on my mind and was in deep thought. I went through the drive thru as I normally do, I ordered, I paid at the first window and then drove away, forgetting to pick up my coffee and muffin at the second window. The worst part was that I didn't even notice that I forgot to pick up the coffee and muffin until 15 minutes later, when I pulled into my parking spot at work.

I just kept thinking that the girl at McDonald's had my coffee in her one hand, and a bag with my muffin in her other hand, waiting for me to pull up so she could give them to me, and then I just drove by without even looking. I'm sure it must have given the staff something to laugh about. Their key comments would have been around the terms "what an idiot".

The worst part is they know who I am, they see me everyday, and I'm not sure how I should handle myself tomorrow. Part of me says to just play it cool like nothing happened and the other part of me says to tell them I paid and they still owe me a coffee and a muffin. What to do, what to do? I'll probably just flip a coin, my iPhone's got an app for that.

As many of you know, I don't like long meetings, who does. We worked through lunch and by 3 pm it was finally over and the best thing I did was go to the Y to do some weights. It's amazing how exercise can clear the head and put fuel in the tank. From the Y, I went to the fracture clinic for a follow up visit regarding my foot.

The kids were at Canada's Wonderland, so Alice joined me and we planned to go for dinner afterwards. It was so packed that after close to an hour of waiting and very little movement in the line-up I told them I couldn't wait any longer and rescheduled. That was one hour of my life that I'll never get back and I was a little pissed off because it screwed up my schedule. I wanted to run before dark.

I had a decision to make, do I run in the dark tonight or do an early morning run in daylight. I decided to do it in the morning. My reasoning was as follows; my last few runs have been at night and I need to change it up, and secondly and most importantly, it was a full moon and if anything weird is going to happen it will be on a full moon. It felt better to be safe than sorry. I already wiped out and ripped my shoe once this week.

I got an email from my cousin Jason Guarino today. He's had his first consistent month of training following Mark Allen's heart rate training system and he is finally seeing some positive results. Not as much as he would like and it's been tough on his ego, he's been trying to do it for months. I'm sure John Barclay can relate. But if he keeps doing what he's doing, eventually he'll become an age group running rock star. So to put pressure on him to keep consistent, I've attached the link to Jasons Guarino's Training Log. I'll also put it on the sidebar of my blog as a bookmark. Feel free to check it out and drop him a note from time to time. All encouragement helps.

Weights - 45:00

4.5