I'm still alive. Still healthy. Still maintaining. However, I'm not running or in the gym. Today I spent about five hours clearing brush. There's a huge, overgrown, neglected hedge at the back of my yard, and yesterday I got tired of looking at it. So I started hacking away at it. It's about 100 feet long and 30 feet high. It was about 30 feet wide, but not any more!
Friday I tried weeding around my juniper bushes. I decided to trim the bushes to reach the weeds. It's hard to know where to stop on those suckers, so I took 'em out. They also hadn't been trimmed much since they were planted 20 years ago. Well, they're gone, now.
That's the kind of stuff I've been doing over the past few weeks. We bought this house a few years ago on a 1.3 acre overgrown lot. I've been intimidated by it, and afraid to make it my own. Well, once the tree guys took out those trees, I kinda got inspired. So I'm hacking and ripping all over the place.
I guess there's no need to go to the gym and do woodchoppers, then pay a landscaper to chop your wood
I do need to get back to training soon, though. I want to do a ten miler in mid September and a half marathon in late September.