Ha ha ha!
Yeah, so, about me, as usual, because this blog is all about Mr. Vain over here (you might have noticed by the previous post from yesterday with the 3 cheesy selfies taken within hours of each other.) I'm actually not vain at all, I'm a rather humble dude, for the most part, who's busy munching on a super healthy chicken mayo pie, it has a lot of pastry and not much chicken mayo filling. Que the heartburn in about half an hour. So yeah, besides humble and slightly vain, I'm aslo a dumbass because I know this shit is unhealthy and not all that wonderful but still I buy it because popping down to the local Bonjour garage shop the pies always look so much tastier than the bland salads, pasta's, sandwiches, etc at the deli counter. Must be the warm lighting used to sell more pies. And I've always had a soft spot for pies. In my younger years they got me through many a desperate bout of the munchies!
Well that went sideways!
About the weekend, my plans anyway (with supporting stories):
This evening I'll take Tammy for a swim at the gym. She took part in her first school gala yesterday and despite full marks for effort and enthusiasm she didn't win any awards, mainly because the school she came from last year had no swimming pool and the pool she started at this year does so the other kids in her grade have had a few years of swimming training ahead of her. Swimming lessons are expensive, so I've undertaken to get her doing laps in the gym pool at least once a week throughout winter so come next summer when swimming starts again at school she'll hopefully have caught up somewhat.
Thereafter I have some configuration changes I want to try on the electronic drum kit to make it a more realistic layout. It only has one crash and a ride cymbal, so I'm going to turn the middle tom into a ride cymbal (you can configure every pad to make one of 108 different percussion sounds) and set the ride to be a second crash. Also secure the kick and raise the hats a bit and get the snare at the sweet spot.
Boring drum talk. I love it!
Then I plan to work on my selection of hard rock and metal on my phone to listen to while running. That's my new thing - listening to music while I run. But my initial selection of tunes is not all ideal. For example, I love the band Cradle of Filth, it's serious death metal, but it doesn't really do it for me while running, throws me off with all of Danny's screaming. The more uptempo hard rock type stuff works better, and it helps to be at around 180bpm as that's around my running cadence so it motivates me to keep a good rhythm going while running. Also, a good rock tune that I know creates a bit of entertainment, when the build up in the song breaks I get excited and air-drum while I'm running. It gives me quite an adrenaline rush and a spurt of energy but I probably look like an idiot! I'm not bothered by that! Maybe one day I'll become legendary as the runner who drums while running! Haha
Tomorrow I need to go collect my race pack for Sunday's race at Sportsmans Warehouse, and I want to try find some non-cotton running underpants. I get terrible thigh and crotch chafe on long runs which burns like hell and I've realised it's from cotton jocks (I don't run commando! The bouncing is uncomfortable). I know that cotton and sweat doesn't work together, but dumbass here didn't click that part with jocks. Last week I bought a pair of tights which I ran a 10km in which helped, but with jocks, tights and my club running shorts made four layers (the shorts have a lining) which made for a small oven that slow roasted the family jewels. So, if the technical strapless underwear are affordable I'll try them with the shorts and use that for the long road runs and save the tights for trail runs.
Then the fun starts, we are joining a school outing to Ratanga junction. I'll probably go on the Cobra roller coaster again for the first time since my early twenties. Hopefully the old ticker holds strong and the stomach holds it's contents. Maybe I should sit at the back just in case!
Tomorrow night Tammy is having a sleepover at a friend. Something we've only done once before for non-grandparents. She's very excited, I'm a bit nervous. But I suppose as parents we all have to start letting go at some point, though I wish we didn't have to! I'd rather keep her close where I can protect her always! I'm sure she'll be fine, worrisome dad will be forgotten as soon as I'm out of sight.
On Sunday the friends she's staying with will come to our place for a braai and a few much deserved drinks. I say deserved because on Sunday morning, very early and far away I'm running the Milkwood Half Marathon out near Kommetjie. It's my second 21km for the year, a race I'm really looking forward to but also apprehensive about since I know my training lately has not been where it should be! Eating pies for lunch (and the eisbein I had last night) doesn't help much either! The race route is one of the most scenic around, so between the views, my music and lots of tight hot runners ass to motivate my pace I'm sure it will be a good run! Usually these races are awarded with a medal for finishing, this one apparently the first 2000 runners gets an indigenous tree to take home. So after pounding the road for 21.1km I still have to go home and do some gardening! Great!
That's my weekend, in a nutshell! I hope you all have an awesome one, I'll write another blog next week!
You see, this banishment of Facebook at work has had the positive effect of getting me writing a load of crap on my blog again for the duration of my lunch break, even though this overshoots my allocated 30 minute break, which Facebook never did. Once I start writing I have to finish or it will preoccupy my thoughts until I come back and finish, proof read and publish.
Waffling again...
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