Dis­tance Run­ning and Tennis

In case you haven’t noticed, I haven’t been post­ing my work­outs as of late. At least I haven’t been with the fre­quency that I used to. I will try to get bet­ter about it, start­ing with today’s blog post.

This past Sat­ur­day, a beau­ti­ful spring day in the Car­oli­nas, I suf­fered from Spring Fever in a bad way. Actu­ally, since the date was March 19, 2011, it was in real­ity the last day of win­ter. How­ever, the tem­per­a­ture was in the mid-70s (Fahren­heit) so only the pick­i­est of peo­ple would call it a win­ter day! Char­lotte held its annual St. Patrick’s Day parade down­town and my local dog park got a group together to march. A friend and I went together with our dogs and we had a really good time. How­ever, the sun was shin­ing brightly that day so I did man­age to get quite a bit of sun.

After return­ing home, I had planned on hit­ting some ten­nis balls at the local pub­lic park. First, though, my aging par­ents needed for me to mow the lawn. Silly me for­got to wear work gloves and I got blis­ters on both hands. Not just blis­ters, mind you, but bub­bles the size of golf balls! Yes, they hurt. On top of that, I had man­aged to get even more sun. I was smart enough to apply sun­screen, but there is some­thing about over­dos­ing on Vit­a­min D that just drains you. Read more