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A good cry on the train

 
 
View Profile Izzie
 
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Reply Sat 13 Sep, 2008 05:50 am
Hey Joe (so good to see you smiling) Nation

I'm GOOD too today....

Really good...

Looking forward to hearing your stories tonite hun.

Iz (what's that all about a? Posivibes across the pond are working - how happy is that?) zie x
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Reply Sat 13 Sep, 2008 07:51 am
Have a great Saturday, JoeNation.

$1500 for a shower? you could have some serious fun with that. Serious fun. Hunh. What an odd phrase.

I'm off to the hardware store to pick up a length of stick, to use as my practice cane ... and mebbe some more epsom salts to help with the after-effects of practicing.
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Reply Sat 13 Sep, 2008 03:50 pm
Wondering if Joe made it through his half-marathon OK....

(tap, tap, tap...)
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Reply Sat 13 Sep, 2008 03:54 pm
tomorrow, eva, tomorrow
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Reply Sat 13 Sep, 2008 06:44 pm
Ya, the half marathon is tomorrow. I have to get up at 3AM in order to get to the busses which will take me and several thousand others to the start in Queens. (Mad, I tell you, completely mad.) I feel okay after yesterday's invasiveness.

Here's more of my life coming together.
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So, for the past two years or so, I have been gettin up at 4AM, having a coffee and toast and grapefruit and then going to the john in hopes of having some kind of regular morning er, activity.Some days yah, some days nah. No matter how hard I tried.

There is a point to this, stay with me.

So, he said, about a month ago during one of these nah sessions there was blood. A lot of it. SCARED me to death, but it was also the day after L told me she was leaving so it was just one more piece of crap in the sh-tstorm of my existence.

A month goes by, I go to have me examined.
Doctor says: "Have you been trying really hard to go?"
(Well, doc, yes, because if I don't go, I then have to go about three miles into my five mile run and that's a bummer, so to speak.)
Yah, doc says, but that's was causing you to have a hemmoroid or two.
(Not cancer??!!??)
Nope.
(Good. Oh, and doc, I just decided to start running at night so there will be no straining, no problem and no hemmies.")

I hope you all see the symmetry in all this.

I was running in the mornings because I wanted to be at home at night with L.
Running in the mornings caused me to have sleep deprivation, irregularity and bad bumpy red thingies where they don't belong.
Now that L. is gone I can:
run at night
quit the gym and save big bucks
get some real sleep in the mornings
and
who knows
get to stop eating six prunes a day.
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Dunno at this point if I am even going to go to the Half tomorrow. It's supposed to rain and be cold and (fill in several whiney bitchass punkbutt excuses for not getting out there here.) Wuss.

Joe(If I am back by noon I can sleep the rest of the day.)Nation
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Reply Sat 13 Sep, 2008 06:56 pm
symmetry is quite likable sometimes

like balance and moderation

3 a.m.? what the hell - it's a good time to howl at the moon
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Reply Sat 13 Sep, 2008 07:41 pm
Hey, Joe. Congrats on the hemorrhoids. Hope they're symmetical, to fit in with how your life is shaping up. (Glad it's nothing more serious.)

Good luck on the run. I'll probably be waking up as you get on the bus. I'll send you a positive vibe.

Ro (didn't your mother tell you that straining causes hemorrhoids?) berta
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Reply Sat 13 Sep, 2008 07:46 pm
So, to make a long story short...living with L was a real pain in the ass.

(Forgive me.)

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Reply Sat 13 Sep, 2008 08:15 pm
Fearful symmetry...

no, I meant, Pasta e Fagioli..
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Reply Sat 13 Sep, 2008 09:06 pm
Joe Nation wrote:
Joe(If I am back by noon I can sleep the rest of the day.)Nation


If you don't go at all, you can sleep the whole day.

E(why not?)va

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Reply Sat 13 Sep, 2008 11:15 pm
Joe. I love the way stuff is falling into place - and I still think you might be the Man of Steel if you did the half marathon, after all the emptying out involved in the last days.

Upside: you weren't carrying any extra "baggage".
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Reply Sun 14 Sep, 2008 07:20 am
Sleeping or running?

Enquiring minds want to know.

~~~~

Setanta also wants to know how Eva's doing - did the IkeWinds bother her?
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Reply Sun 14 Sep, 2008 07:33 am
Hee..!

It's nice that you can do all these nice things for YOU now, Joe.

Maybe that includes sleeping in and not bothering with the half-marathon?

But then maybe it means doing that half-marathon 'cause it's so rewarding.

Definitely curious!
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Reply Sun 14 Sep, 2008 07:40 am
mmmmmmmmm......

whaddawe think a?

RUNNING.... I'm going with the marathon! Who knows a?
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Reply Sun 14 Sep, 2008 10:49 am
Okay.
Clock didn't go off.
I woke up anyway.
Checked the radar for excuse.
No rain.
Actually laid back down and had the following conversation with myself:
Screw it.
What are you going to do instead?
Sleep. Now shut up.
Are you going to run later?
Yeeees. (pounds pillow)
How far?
I'll do about 10 or so.
Sooo, you are going to sleep now instead of getting up and going to the Queens Half so that later you can run almost the same distance.
Arrrrrgh. (

gets up, gets dressed, grabs bag and gatorade and big piece of toast. Out the door in two minutes flat. It's 3:52 am)

=I just got home. I'm showered and I had a nice lunch and now I'm going to lay down for an hour=

The race was fun. I met several really nice people, especially a (too young) Michelle whom I rode over from Manhattan to Queens with, sat and talked with for two hours while we waited for the start and ran with for about the first three miles. No, I didn't get her last name (she's too young, remember.) But I think I will see her again, we run about the same speed (when I am not two days after a roto-rooter expedition.)

I did really well I think. The procedure did take a lot out of me. Har har. but seriously, I brought along three Energy Gels and took one just before the start, one at six miles and one at nine and half miles and, I think, they really made the difference for me today.
http://www.guenergy.com/images/products_roctane.jpg

I was about fifteen minutes slower than usual but that was as good as I could do.

I am taking myself out for a drink and a steak tonight.

Joe(two hours, twenty three minutes and fifteen seconds)Nation
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Reply Sun 14 Sep, 2008 10:52 am
Ha.... knew it..... knew you'd go.... after all YOU ARE JOE (I CAN DO ANYTHING) NATION......

changes afoot boyo.... changes afoot!!!!

Bloody proud of you mate!!!! Very Happy

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Reply Sun 14 Sep, 2008 10:58 am
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Reply Sun 14 Sep, 2008 11:05 am
Come on.... What's too young?

Congrats on the running!
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Reply Sun 14 Sep, 2008 12:25 pm
Daaaaaaaamn...

Congratulations!!!
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Reply Sun 14 Sep, 2008 12:32 pm
Too young? For Joe Nation? The girl better shape up just to keep up with our Joe.
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