At the time of this posting....a week from now....I'll be wandering around the Bradley International Terminal at Los Angeles International Airport. Hopefully, I'll have checked my bags in and gotten my Qantas boarding pass. Then I'll go upstairs at the back of the terminal and see what restaurants are still open that late. It seems so wierd that a boy from Louisiana knows LAX as well as I do! I've already been there 7 or 8 times, the last three when I was going to Oz. Spoke to Jonnene this morning for about an hour and I think it's easy to see that we are a little excited about my arrival! It'll be a busy 11 days while I'm there, seeing her family and friends almost every day...but we're going to try to get away for a couple of days. I'm not sure where yet but she thinks we might go to a mountain range east of Perth where we can do some hiking and things like that.
I ran one lap of the marathon trail course at the Eddy Jones Park this afternoon....six-and-a-half miles on that lap, which I covered in 58 minutes....about two minutes slower than I thought but the course is pretty tough. I'll have to do two laps next Saturday to get my half-marathon in. Today allowed me to see what toes I need to tape and the aches/pains I'll have afterwards. Like tonight, my lower back is stiff and my shoulders ache a bit....something to be prepared for. Jonnene wants me to walk as much as possible during my trip down 'cause she has a concern about blood clotting in my legs after doing that run the day before. I think I'll be fine but there's nothing wrong with doing "laps" on the 747 a few times over the Pacific! Plus I'll do lots of walking in downtown Melbourne during the 3-4 hours I'll hang out there.
Shannon and her coach, Nathan, went up to Mount Scott in Oklahoma to do hill intervals (they're from Dallas) today. I'm off the bike during the month of November and will get back on it when I get back from Oz. Hopefully, all this running will keep me in some kind of shape!
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