The Seduction, Round Two

Some would say we met by accident but truth be known we each had our seperate agendas which shared a common purpose. I was not looking for her but was wanting someone. She appeared to be out of my league. That I may be biting off more than I could chew. She did not care who it was as long as someone would get her out of her current situation.

To call our first go round a romance would be to take what we were totally out of context. We tolerated each other and little more. Sure there were moments of passion, where we moved as one. Every action was met with a willingness, an eager response but those moments were rare. At times the heat between us became too much and we lost what we were which would lead to our ultimate demise.

For the most part I considered her demanding. A control freak. Even a Calculating bitch. I was detached. Unreponsive. A cold hearted Prick. But It worked. It did the trick. It fullfilled the initial requirements that brought us together. But after our last Travels it fell apart. We looked at each other with disdain. Almost hatred. Neither of us sure what had brought us to this breaking point when in reality there was nothing truely there to break.

Months passed but it seemed like years. We saw each other often but never spoke. At times I would turn and see her looking at me. A look in her that I had never seen before. And at times she would catch me glancing her way. Over time these little looks brought smiles. Even a small lift in the heart rate. We gradually started to acknowledge each others existence. Both wondering if another go round would be a smart move. Neither of us had moved on since our seperation. We were both being seduced by the other without knowing what was going on as these feelings between us were new!

Eventually physical contact was made. I do not remember if she bumped into me or i her but there was an electricity in that touch. A small eagerness to maybe explore more. I was not sure if my heart was ready for her again. She questioned my desire for a committment. The accidental meetings became more frequent though they were always in the same place. It was as if we were waiting for each other, hoping for the other to make the first move. To indicate what we should do. How we should or even if we could move forward!

This all came to a head this afternoon. Shortly after lunch I saw her. She was leaning against the wall in the coy way only she can. I purposefully reached out and touched her and let my hand linger on her cool exterior. She could feel my warmth. The strength of my hand which she had missed and expressed as much. I gently caressed her. Quickly becoming reaquainted with her every curve. The Passion between us growing with every moment we were together. Finally neither of us could take it any longer. It was a glorious November day so we moved the little dance outside.

The sun was poking through the clouds. The birds were singing. The wind dissipated to nothingness and that is when it happened. I mounted her and once again we became one. It was all new but at the same time a feeling of familiarity was in the background. I pushed with all my might and she responded with a renewed speed. I will admit it did not last as long as I may have hoped for but it has been some time. With all the excitement that had built up alas I could not endure what seemed to be more than a moments worth of pleasure.........

And this is how I came to once again ride My sweet Lady Jane Hathaway today on an amazing day on the 20th of November in the great outdoors of Saskatchewan. The first time we have enjoyed each others company since Ironman Canada at the end of August.

Waddle on my friends, and do it with that knowing little smile that i know you all have!!

Recipe for Julie

Here You go Jules:

Combine in a large bowl:

6 0z fresh spinach, stems removed.
1/2 cup toasted pecans coarsely chopped (to toast nuts and seeds place in a single layer in
ingreased shallow pan. bake in 350 degree oven for 5-10 minutes shaking often.)
1/4 cup crumbled blue cheese.
8 bacon slices, cooked crisp and crumbled
Medium pear, peeled, quartered, cored and thinly sliced.

Apple cider dressing: Combine in a jar with a tight fitting lid, shake well and drizzle over spinach mixture.

1/3 cup olive oil
2 tbsp apple cider vinegar
2 tsp chopped fresh thyme leaves (or 1/2 tsp dried) but the fresh is much better!!!
2 tsp brown sugar packed
Garlic glove minced
1/4 tsp salt

All that is left to do is enjoy an amazing salad!!

Waddle on my friends and enjoy our fantastic weather!

Not for the weak stomached

I manage a truck shop. We do work on large trucks and trailers and I have to tell you the rap truckers have about being disgusting dirty slobs is true for about 30% of them. Most of the guys/girls you would never know they drive a truck, but the minority quickly makes you forget about the majority.

We have some of these minority members as regulars and OMG!!! One of these guys is usually waiting out back first thing in the morning one day per week. And we all know what one has to do first thing in the morning!!! I am always tempted to put an out of order sign on the door of the can but never do and then regret it for the rest of the day....YES THE ENTIRE DAY!!!!

Well the other day we had a guy come to the shop and i kid you not, living plants would have died as he walked by! This man stunk...and not just a little. He sat done in the office on the bosses coat and i told the boss after stinky guy left that he needs to burn that coat. "Why" he asked.....I say stinky guys ass was on that coat and the smell will never leave!!! Holy shit it was bad. Worse than the regular sitnky guys dumps!!

But this morning topped it all. I get to the shop a half hour before we open just to get things set up and organised for the day and there are usually guys waiting to get work done. Well "TINY" is waiting. Another overly large...ok he is just damn fat! No need to be politically correct as this is my blog and if you do not like what i write leave! All of the skinky guys are fat!! Like really fat....like how can you even find your penis fat!! Ok Tiny is waiting, well sleeping in his bunk. I refuse to open the door to wake him up. I opened his door once to move his truck and the foul smell eminating from the cab hit me like a ton of bricks, nasty nasty bad!! This morning I bang on the side of his bunk a couple of times and he finally wakes up as i can see the truck start to rock as he becomes mobile!! I am back in the shop waiting for him to see me when he rolls down the passenger side window and pours out a yellow liquid from his big gulp cup.....nope not left over mountain dew or apple juice, he is so fucking fat and lazy that he pisses in a big gulp cup and then dumps it out whenever he gets up where ever he is sitting......well i snap! I ask him what the fuck he thinks he is doing pouring his piss out in front of the shop....people stand there and smoke (just as disgusting) but they do not need to be standing in your piss....i tell him i should piss in his truck but it would not really make it any worse then it already is.....i tell him he is an ass and to leave!

Thus is the start of my glorious Sunday!

Waddle on my friends and the next time you see someone drinking from a big gulp try not to think of the fat guy pissing in it~!

Grreeeaaaattttt Wkd

Well what a great wkd we had here in Toon town. You could not ask for better weather to excercise outside in! Saturday morning I met the boys for a 2.25 hour run. It was great. Apparently we were supposed to be somewhere between a 5:35 and a 6:10 pace and but with an overall average of 5:53. I told the boys before we started that I was going to make sure we were on the lower end of that pace....funny thing was my garmin battery started showing low power early on and was more often than not ready about 30seconds/k higher than the boys so I would glance at my watch and see a 5:50 pace when they would call out we were doing a 5:20!! They threatened to rip my watch off a few times and throw it in the river!! It was a great morning for running and by the time we were done we had covered 25K.

Headed home for a quick wardrob change and a little fuel before Jen grabbed me for a Mudwhore adventure. We rode for 2.5 hours....the highlight being when I heard a scream and stopped to see Jen splayed out on the trail behind me kneeling in front of a thorn bush with her bike on its side several feet ahead of her. I was concerned for a few seconds as she was not really moving and I could not tell if she was laughing or crying....turned out to be laughing.
Let's just say we had lots of fun as the ground surface had warmed up just enough to make the top of the earth and anything laying on it very very slick!

After the ride it was back to Tish's for the usual refueling on bananna chocolate chip muffins as well as coffee and baileys.....talk about good times!! The Mudwhore gang is open to all but ya gotta want to have fun!

Jen and I eventually got back to my place around 6:30 where I made her birthday supper. I had told my sister earlier in the week what the menu was and she wanted to make reservations! LOL.....I just bought some chips/crackers/dip and fruit for appetizers. Opened up a nice bottle of red wine and poured it into the glasses to breath. About 20 minutes into meal prep Jen asked what that nice smell was....told her it was the wine...and it was.

The salad was a spinach and pear salad....spinach/crisply cooked bacon broken crumbled up/roasted pecans/blue cheese bits/thinly sliced pear with a very light apple cider/olive oil/fresh tyme/garlic/salt/pepper dressing.

The main coarse was garlic roasted sweet potatoes that are sliced into half-inch rounds and then rolled into a garlic olive oil and lime juice sauce, and lemon garlic roasted pork loin. Also had some Jalapeno bread to go along with this.....it was a very very flavourfull meal!

Gotta admit nothing like once in a while taking time to cook a nice meal for someone special! Desert was some plain old vanila icecream with a very tastey raspberry juice drizzled on top. YUM!

The hard core drinkers that Jen and I are enabled us to almost finish a half glass of wine each. HA.

Sunday morning we were in the pool at 8:30 for an hour and a half swim. First time this year that I have finished a swim workout. Did take me to the last second to do so! Not sure how I will feel about these sunday morning swims come January!! Bed usual feels darn good that time of year that time of day!

The rest of the day was spent doing a whole bunch of nothing other than trying not to nap. More of this kind of wkd is truly needed.

Waddle on my friends....and the Charlie Browne restaurant is one of the few that takes reservations so when passing thru town just call ahead.

Hmmm....wonder what caused that green slime....and the joy that is pumpkin pie!!

Life proceeds as it pretty much should for the most part. The weather is taking a turn for the better for the next few days so the Mudwhores will ride again....all of a sudden i am picturing a bad western movie...well really there is no such thing as a bad western but the good old ones sure did not take much to make. Need to find helmet cams as some of the shit we do, while being ordinary for most people is rather extraordinary for us!!

Got up this morning and had the last piece of pumpkin pie for breakfast. Bought 2 huge pies at costco on Sunday and took one over to the girlfriends for her little guys birthday as he loves pumpkin pie. Kept the other one all to myself and until this very second told no one!! oh my gosh every little bite was an orgasm! But alas the pie is gone and as I am on a weightloss to gain any second of speed I can program for the Phoenix marathon it is back to all that is healthy.

So in that regard I opened up the crisper where I keep all the vegetables and much too my surpise where all things were last seen green/red/orange and firm there is now a bunch of soft items producing a fine mix of juice......should sort of be like a V8 if one is too drink it do you not think??? So i empty out the crisper of all of its finery into a bag (which I now realise I left in the kitchen so that should be an interesting smell when I get home later tonight) and pour the liquid contents into a glass. It looks fine and smells ok and does not appear to be any floaties so I figure what the hell and pour it down the hatch as if it were a tequila shot!!!! Ok so i just poured it down the sink but I had you thinking I had crossed over the edge! So tomorrow I have to go grocery shoping.

Actually have to shop for a few other items as well as I am preparing a gormet meal for my girl's birthday. I am one of those people that when I see an interesting recipe I will ripe it out of a magazine or copy it down to try at a later date....you should see the pile of recipes that I have collected!! So I do not really remember what the recipe is but it is Pork tenderloin.....the rest i will decide upon when i hit the grocery store. Did buy a nice bottle of wine to go along with the meal...yes only one bottle as we are both cheap drunks.....Sorry honey I know you may read this and thus the surprise will be lessoned but I sort of told you some of it anyways. The Candles will be lit, I love candles, and some nice music will be on.....just gotta treat a girl like a girl once in a while. Hit the mall on my way to work and had her birthday present purchased in about 5 miniutes as well.....I believe in funcuality when it comes to presents.....that should keep her guessing for a few hours.

Have been training. Did an hour run today. 20 minute warmup, 20 minutes at race pace -10 seconds and 20 minute cool down which brought me in just shy of 8 miles. Off to the pool tonight for a swim, have been really struggling in the water as of late but I atribute that to only getting wet twice a week. The way i look at it I am miles ahead of last year so no concern here. One of the bonuses of being your own coach!!

Ah better get back to work.

Waddle on my friends and when you drink a greenish orangish redish smoothy think of me!

Hill Sprints

Training for Phoenix is going well. Do some of my own thing and some of the workouts my co-marathon buds are doing. I have done a long run/an interval workout and last night hill sprints with the boys.



Ok well last night it was just me and Darcy and Darcy was late so I did half the workout by myself. The hill sprint workout is such: warmup for 20 minutes and end up at the bottom of the hill under victoria bridge. Sprint full out up the hill 20 seconds with an easy jog for 2:10. Repeat this for a total of 6 times then cool down to complete and hour workout.



The funny thing about hill sprints is that you run a hell of a lot faster when there is more than one of you doing them. I did the first two on my own and was on my easy jog getting ready for number three when Darcy comes waddling down the road. Now I thought i was going all out the first two times. We hit the go spot and my god Darcy takes off like a rabit and blows by me like I am walking. He gets about 10 feet in front of me and that is about where we stay the rest of the sprint. I think to myself no wonder the first two seemed easy!! LOL



Number 4 is much the same. Darcy has a greater explosive speed off the start than I but after the quick burst I notice that I gain on him and by the time the 20 seconds is up i am only 5 feet back.......I know I can catch him. Sprint 5 I am right on his tale and by the end of 6 we are neck and neck.



Results....well the first two were done at a 4:10/k pace so really not much of a sprint. The next 2 are at a 3:18 pace. The 5th as at a 3:05 pace and the last is at a 2:95 pace. Apparently it just takes my old bady a little while to warm up to the speed thing and yes Julie it is so very much a mind thing as I found my mind saying enough already but the body saying suck it up Princess you have more to give than that!! My heart rate was in the mid to high 160s during the sprints and a nice low 140 average in the warmup.

This wkd is a 135 minute run....stuck in the shop so will have to do it on my own and compare notes with the boys later.

Have a great halloween.....

Waddle on my friends and eat all the candy you can cuz you are working out way to much!!

Manscaping!

Has been a little bit since I had something word worthy to talk about. Not that I have not been working out as I have. Running at least 4 but usually 5 times a week to get ready for phoenix. Have the team ultra coming up this saturday (note to self get the time off of work for that tomorrow!) in which i am running the first leg and then riding my mountain bike with Jen as she runs her leg.

The Pool is back in business or should i say that I am back in the pool. Wednesday nights at the old HB and Sunday mornings at the new long and deep Shaw Center. OMG not only is it a challenge to jump back into the pool after one and a half months off make that a 50m pool...holy shit i am good to about the 37m mark and then i want the wall, ok it is probably more like 29m but it feels like 37! Add on to the the shallowest part is about 16 feet with bulkheads on either end then you have a real workout!!

Have done nothing but look at Lady Jane as I come and go but have mountain biked twice with the Hardcore Mudwhores and even went out and bought a new mountain bike on saturday before out little outing. Ran for 2 hours saturday at 8:30 and then we biked for almost 2.5 hours at 12:30....let's just say at one point when the other members of the Whore gang sort of wnadered up ahead without knowing where they were going I waited for them to wander on back as I knew they had to come back my way!

Today before work I was in standing in the bathroom at home sans most of my clothing. You know I do not mind the fact that the hair on top of the old head is not what it use to be but why does it have to spread to other parts of my body? Now I am not as body hairy as the new guy at swim class (wow) but I do have to trim the eyebrows once in a while and the ear hair once in a while and i have noticed that the chest hair is slowly starting to grow a little higher on the neck but it is the back hair that pisses me off! I hate back hair. I go and get it waxed off several times during the summer season and during the winter I have a self-made contraption that allows me to shave my back when I get the ambition. But some day I am seriously going to get my back lasered or whatever they do totally hair free.

But alas I have wandered from that which I was going to write about. It was my chest hair that was getting the best of me today. I usually clipper it shortish every once in a while, really who the hell wants to run their hair thru some ones long and greying chest hair! I mean I have never clipped it right short but today was a different story! Was hoping to surprise my girl when she runs her hands over my musclular hairless chest but since she reads this it will not be a surprise. I accidently made a pass that cut all the hair off and then I was commited.....so now i have nothing above the brief line which in turn creates a new connundrum!!! Do I now remove the rest of my clothing and give the rest of my body the complete going over??? Pretty much have to do I not??? Will not My Girl laugh if she sees me all top body hairless and bottom body hairy??? Well except for a couple of key areas of course!......what the hell have I done? Really it is a pain in the ass to just keep the face clean shaven as I have been doing that since I was 11, but now I have commited myself to full (below the head) body clippering!! Oh the insanity of it all!!!!! Honey hope you like mexican hairless cats!!! LM(hairless)AO.

Waddle on my friends and if you are not doing it with a smile after reading this you have bigger issues that I do!!