Some things I don't understand....actually, there's a lot of things I don't understand but I don't have time or desire to discuss all that right now. No, this is about my short run this evening. I only did two miles 'cause I had been sick for about two days mid-week and hadn't done any aerobic activity since Monday. Now my running has been stuck at an 8-minute-mile rut and I hadn't seemed to be able to get any faster. Eight minutes is slow for me but it had gotten comfortable to go at that pace and that's not a good thing. So I go out to the running path on the Bossier City side of the Red River with the intention of an easy pace. When I turned around at the one-mile mark, I looked at my Timex and it says 7:29.....7:29? I didn't feel like I had run any faster than before, so I kept it up on the return and my total time for the two miles ended up at 14:49...my second mile was 10 seconds faster than the first. Obviously, being sick and bed-ridden makes you faster!
Tomorrow will be a bike ride, maybe 2-3 hours worth at a moderate pace, then a long run (5 miles?) on Sunday. It's good to feel human again. The nose is clear and the legs are newly shaved.
Go see "The Guardian" with Kevin Costner and Ashton Kutcher...about 80% of it was filmed in Shreveport. The Coast Guard training pool is actually the pool at LSU-Shreveport. All the close-up ocean scenes were done in a wave pool put together near Minden and it's the largest wave pool ever constructed (it's been saved for use in other movie projects). The movie has a number of cliches' and reminds you of one or two other movies but I felt this one was way better done than any of those other movies it may remind you of....really, it is better as far I'm concerned. Other locales used in the film were Barksdale Air Force Base, Superior Steakhouse, and James Burton's bar in Shreve Square that is changed to "Maggie's Hangar". When you see the establishing shot for Maggie's, take a quick look to the left and you'll see a red canopy with a logo that says Freddie Mack's....that's MY logo! I did that a few years ago and now it's in a movie. Cool.
When the movie was filmed here last November thru January, some of the cast and crew came out to participate in a duathlon our local multi-sport club put on. You can see the pics at http://www.pbase.com/johnchase/guardian and it was fun to have them there. Some even showed up at a party we held a week later.
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