1000+ YTD miles

Running:
To catch up on the past weeks activity not previously discussed.  I took Tuesday off.  Monday I had run in anticipation of it being a really rainy day.  Good thing I did.  I didn't feel bad about the non running day.  I managed to bike a little and do core work and lifting.  Wednesday I got out for a 7.5 mile lunch break run in 59:00.  Thursday I ran 7.5 miles in the morning on the treadmill since it was raining again.  I ran this in 1:00:00.  After entering the run in my run log I noticed I was only 4 short of 1000 YTD, so I just had to get that 4 in during my lunch break.  I ran it on the treadmill at work in 29:39.   Cool to hit this milestone on May 13th.  Probably not a record, but it must be close.  I'll have to check on that.  Friday was another work day run of 7.5 miles in 1:3:33.  Saturday was a little different for me.  Almost all of my runs are done alone.  But Friday afternoon my friend Jerry and I worked out meeting for a morning long run.  He also worked out meeting with our mutual friend Dana so all three of us could catch up on things.  We met up in downtown Wales just off the Drumlin trail shortly after 7am.   I really enjoyed running the 13.5 miles with these guys.  I really need to see about doing this more often.  We ran a decent conversational pace and finished in 1:49:26.  The run really went by fast.  I don't think there was any silence the entire way.  It was great to spend a little time with these guys.   On Sunday I went out early.  I wanted to hit at least 60 miles for the week so I modified one of my favorite runs a little to get in another 13.  I managed to run it in 1:43:54.  This run brought me 3 times past a spot where there was a dead opossum on the road.  The 1st time around there were 4 turkey vultures near the road kill.  Don't know if you've ever seen one of these birds, but they are huge.  The 2nd time around there were 6 turkey vultures and a red tailed hawk that was keeping them all at bay.  The hawk was less that half the size of the vultures, but he definitely was the boss.  The third time around I counted 12 vultures with more circling above me, and the hawk still had control.  Crazy to see.  Sunday I ran with music, which I hadn't done for a while.  I set the iPod to mix it up and ended up with the craziest mix of music you could imagine.  One sequence I remember had a Punjabi song, followed by Rascal Flatts, Black Eyed Peas, and then REO Speedwagon.  Try to find that on the radio.

Through Sunday:
WTD 60.5
MTD 116
YTD 1034
ODO 26,200

Hunting:
Not much going on in this area at the moment.  I'm waiting to get back up north again to do some more tree trimming around my stands.  This is a good time of year for that type of maintenance instead of doing it in the fall.  A few weeks ago we got a good look at what to do before the leaves came out.  I did see twin fawns in the back yard on Sunday afternoon.  I was back there checking on my trees and jumped a doe.  A few seconds later I noticed both of the fawns just laying in the tall grass being still as can be.  Good thing I didn't have the dogs back there with me.

Gardening:
I finished rototilling my garden one last time.  All the planting of seeds will begin now and will be done over the next couple weeks.  Still lots of work preparing the rows for planting.  Everything should be in by June 1.  I still need to get to the garden center to pick up tomato and pepper plants.  I tried starting from seed a few years ago, but it's hard to get a good variety without a lot of waste.  Just as easy to go pick out the dozen plants I need.  My brother Tad helped me fix up about a dozen bird houses that had been damaged over the years.  I got all of these hung up over the past couple days.  I trimmed up several of the trees before hanging the houses up.   Today is pool opening day.