My workout today was a total bust. I never even made it through the second of my six repeats before my body gave out. It's a disheartening feeling. This is the same workout that I couldn't handle a week ago either. I guess I got kind of used to pleasant surprises but it seems that they've run out. I made the best I could out of it by making sure that I at least taxed my legs to the extreme and left it at that. I'm sure I'm gonna get over it, but for now it just feels like failure.
I hope that I can get a bit of a run in tomorrow and if so I'll feel better. Not that the run itself is so important but I need to know that my feet are on the mend so that I can get back to my long runs. I only have time for perhaps 3 more as the race is only 4 weeks away.
And along with all that whining I have a nice little story for all you Dutchmen out there. I watch very little television but the one show I enjoy when I happen to catch it is "How It's Made". Yesterday one of the topics was doughnuts. Much to my surprise they credited dutch immigrants with bringing the recipe to North America in the form of something they called oily balls.....and it all came back to me. Ollie ballen!!! They were simply balls of dough dumped in boiling oil and then coated with sugar. We didn't have them very often but I can still smell them today. According to the TV show someone figured out that the balls of dough cooked a little better if you pushed the centre out of them first, and ever since then we've had the doughnut!
And maybe that's my problem....too many doughnuts!!....or maybe not enough??
Love
Peter
I hope that I can get a bit of a run in tomorrow and if so I'll feel better. Not that the run itself is so important but I need to know that my feet are on the mend so that I can get back to my long runs. I only have time for perhaps 3 more as the race is only 4 weeks away.
And along with all that whining I have a nice little story for all you Dutchmen out there. I watch very little television but the one show I enjoy when I happen to catch it is "How It's Made". Yesterday one of the topics was doughnuts. Much to my surprise they credited dutch immigrants with bringing the recipe to North America in the form of something they called oily balls.....and it all came back to me. Ollie ballen!!! They were simply balls of dough dumped in boiling oil and then coated with sugar. We didn't have them very often but I can still smell them today. According to the TV show someone figured out that the balls of dough cooked a little better if you pushed the centre out of them first, and ever since then we've had the doughnut!
And maybe that's my problem....too many doughnuts!!....or maybe not enough??
Love
Peter
They still make them in Belgium. When we were ther a few years ago, I bought some from a street vendor in the downtown square in Brugge. I had no idea that Ollie actually meant oily!
ReplyDeleteI too could go for some right now!
Love old john