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July Racing News

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July was a very busy month in terms of my track and field. I ran a regional meet at Time check at the finish Pretty much the entire meet at Spire Spire Institute in Geneva , Ohio followed by the Senior Games Nationals in Pittsburgh and followed by the USATF Masters Nationals in Greensboro. Three road trips in one month was a lot, but I got in some great racing. The meet at Spire was a regional affair where I ran the 100, 200 and high jumped. This meet was a prep for the two National events that were looming on the horizon. I stayed with a college friend while in Geneva, he lived 15 minutes from the track and that made for a great visit and saved some hotel cash as well. The meet was about as wet as I have ever been involved. I jumped first and finished the day with the 200, which was the last event on the track. It rained, not hard, but with an unbroken stream the entire meet The rain finally quit during the 200 meter heats. Just wet the entire meet. I did bring my tent a

Covid Covid Covid

Covid is not as simple as you may think to shake. My last blog had me recovering quickly from my Covid exposure. With Paxlovid, there is a very high chance of a rebound or reinfection and that is precisely what happened to me. I tested clean , for 48 hours, and then got the crap again two days later. Not as severe, but some fever and general tiredness. I had another doctor appointment via the computer and got a script for a steriod and some really bad advice from a Nurse Practioner. She claimed I was safe to be out in public even though I was testing positive. Wrong, just bad advice. I stayed home for another 10 days and part way through this period Linda got the covid from me! I was told I was not contagious, wrong again. Just a lovely husband thing to do. She did not us Paxlovid, she had another script that cleaned her up in about two weeks. But this Covid crap has been a very long slog. Hopefully good bye at this point. My daughter talked me into a 5 K next

Covid finally ran me down

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 It was inevitable, during a pandemic that I would get in the fray with everyone else and I finally did. Linda and I have been amazed that it took this long to get exposed to Covid and actually get sick.  Linda and I have both very diligent on getting our shots and staying out of risky situations. Last Saturday morning I was hot and feeling rather poorly and I tested for Covid and it was positive in 30 seconds.  Time had ran out on my luck and Covid had finally tracked me down and caught me.   Linda is in the medical field and knew of some new Emergency Use Authorization  drugs that were on the market  for treatment of people in my health category of high blood pressure and age.    We set up a urgent care video appointment and the nurse practitioner prescribed the medical treatment Linda was suggesting I do--Paxlovid.  This stuff is free and used under the Emergency Use Authorization rules.  We picked it up at Walgreens and I started the course.  Paxlovid is a 5 day program where you t

Joseph Ford III is a Wonderful Man

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 I have blogged for several years and  Joe Ford is a very dedicated viewer of my work and I would see him at various events and he would inquire about my lack of blogs in recent years.    He was quite dogged in his follow ups, so here we go again.   The picture is Joe on his event, the pole vault in Louisville.    Thanks for the reminders  and patience Joe! I think my last post was about Donald Trump being an asshole about losing the election and what he would eventually do, he is a predictable loser.   Lets talk about something positive.     I have moved to Brookfield, Wisconsin since my last entry and we will be here for a long time.  I have retired and may work some part time in the future,  but currently I am not doing anything that makes us money.   We have three kids and a grand baby in the area and they are why we moved here, plus Wisconsin does not levy state taxes on my social security.  Wisconsin also will not have issues due to global warming that we cannot contend.    Last

What next for Donald "The Duck"

 After what seems like months of counting, the Presidential race has been decided.   Biden is the new man, unless you are Donald Trump and his minions.   They think the race has been won by them and with some shady lawyering, they will get to stay in the White House--no chance.  They are operating like they live in a dictatorship and their wish is everyone's command and that is just not the case.   Bully away all you want, you lost a clean fight.  It was basically a knock out and the smelling salts are not going to save you for another round.   What happens next??   Thousands of people will get sick and die from Covid as the lame duck Donald plays golf, yells at his lawyers and staff, fires more staffers and hires the yes people he so loves.   It will be a useless parade of the soon to be fired, getting their 5 minutes of glory in DC.  And the entire time, the states will certify their vote count and the Electoral College will seal the deal.  Law suits are just water on a ducks bac

Enough!

 I have been voting in Presidential elections since I first cast a vote for Jimmy Carter.  In that election cycle, the country was trying to get the Nixon residue off and Carter was something different and hopefully better.   He was and still is a wonderful human being, but his Presidency did not go well.   Oil shortages, inflation and huge unemployment figures and he was a one termer.  He was not able to make any headway against a very stiff headwind.       I am at the point of this election cycle I cannot wait  to cast a vote against the worst President of all time..  The first Tuesday in November cannot get here soon enough.     I do not think we will ever elect anything as bad as this again.  We will not survive a country if we do.    Is Joe Biden the candidate of my choice--probably not.  Is a mafia Don like we have in place now?? NO!  Does Joe have some seasoning as a leader?  Sure does!   Will Joe appoint a bunch of lackies and ass kissers to important government posts?  Probabl

5K and more

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Post race along the Potomac Our daughter and grand daughter came for a visit last week and we finally got to do some visiting during the covid pandemic mess we have been experiencing.  The  grand daughter time was a lot of fun and the high light of the visit was a trip to the National Zoo in DC.   The pandas were inside and we missed them, but there was plenty of other animals to watch.  Everyone was masked up and it was not too crowded and this is way life is going to be for a while.   A lot of strollers and babies were in the zoo that day.   Betty and I had planned a 5K event that we could run while she was in town.  She does 5K's on a regular basis in the Milwaukee area and I do one a year.  The Steelers were doing a virtual 5K to support their charities and I thought it would be something to do in terms of racing.  My last race was in October of 2019 and it was a qualifier in Tennessee and the 2020 time sheet was still blank!!!   Aside from being injured, this was my lightest r