Growing-up’s BodyBlog

Because this 4th is the Clasica los Mangos a 10km race that I always do every year.  Today I had my Sunday Long Run, these are my run Parameters:

Starting at 9:56AM, Duration: 02:06:20,

Calories: 1557 Kcal, 40% Fat,

Heart Rate Max: 162 ppm (92%) Avg: 150 ppm (85%)

In Zone: [141..168] 01:49:41

Total distance: 18.7 km.

I feel fine, not at my best, but I will be able to complete the race and return home for breakfast, if that is God’s will.  I will keep running speed until Wednesday, after that I will just go out for a short light run of 5.1km rest on Friday (karate / kumite day) and Saturday some light weight training.

For the rest of people, enjoy!

Today is my long day run but first I will go to the vet. and visit my dog.

The guy was in so much pain that in order to help him we are now starting to give him morphine; he say me and try to lift his head but could not.  The good thing is that there is less liquid in between the liver and the pancreas.  No fever, but heart rate is still high same as his breathing.

Today the plan is not to work the Alto de las Palomas hill, it is a climb of 3 km, the rest of the road is almost down hill.  Not trying to set a new PR here, I was planning to run today the do.co.cr/md/calendario2007.pdf Carrera Leonistica of Guadalupe, but I don’t see it happening.  I have not trained consistently for the last 22 days or so.

This was one of the runs I was planning to do this year, but I don’t feel ready for it. instead I will try to set my number for the World Wide Half Marathon (check: http://www.worldwidehalf.com/)  I will see how I feel after looking at my dog.

Early in the morning go to see how our Aristo is doing, at this point I’m aware I should not expect any change, but there he was he moved once his tail, get ready and we go out for a short 5 min walk outside the vet-hospital.

After that short visit, head to the gym, today was not an easy one, back day after almost 22 days of … business trips, and a long vacation to Sebastian, Fl.

Warmed up, and started with my easy forearm course, amazing my forearms ended numb, I liked it like that.

Then Biceps, just to keep them in touch with reality, some curl variations, added weight, and in the end 3 x 8 x 40 kg for each sequence.  I like to see the evil veins pumping out of the biceps when you do curls, all sort of curls, surprise, my friend Mario showed up!  Now we are ready for back time.

With a shadow you can do loco, added more weight, I like to push Mario one more rep, and he has learned to do the same thing, I only do 8, he insisted 12! doing standing rows.  By the end of the second hour, I felt not tire, but good   that sweat sensation of the PUMP

Last night I go to have supper with some friends I was feeling really bad, because in a way I killed my best friend.  In a way the most honest friend I had, no complaints, and always ready to be there.  At this hour we should be getting ready to go outside for a brief 3 km walk around the property, it will take us just 30 minutes, after that I will go out running for 5.1 km or 10.2 km.  But I was already warmed from the first walk.  Aristo *short for Aristoteles* was always there, ready and waiting, I think that is dog nature.

Every time I had to travel, because of work, my Mom mentioned that Aristo will stay at my door waiting for me, every time any of us arrived home he will greet us in a different way each and every one of us.  In his own way he talked to all of us.

He had some specific tasks to do, one of them was to collect the news paper, he will do that gladly just to see the horses, the ducks, and chicken of our neighbour  wave his tail, and come back with the news paper.

I don’t know how mom and dad are going to take it, at this moment I have been unsuccessful to quell my anger; worse, I don’t show it.  I must imagine how other people felt when this happened to their best friend as well.

I must say at this point Good bye my very good friend, you gave us 7 years of relentless  love, I lost my early morning training partner.

I’m loosing my best Friend.

My Golden Retriever is at the pet-hospital.  He is dying because his liver stop working.  No it is not because he eat my Protein or my vitamins; it is because the Food I was using was poisoned.  Sorry, it did not came from China, it came from the US.  It seems like someone thought that since there are some poisoned food in the US channel and that can conduct to demand on court, they can collect that food and sell it to Latin America.

Even the Vet here was not aware of the problem.  Go figure.

Tomorrow I will go out to the hospital and talk to the doctor, at this point reading the liver tests it is already too late.