Senior Center

This is why I joined the Hays Senior Center: At noon, it's raining, and the temperature is about 35°F. It's supposed to rain the whole goddamn day. Since I'm a member of the Senior Center, I walked two miles around its indoor track in 33:44, wearing short pants and a sweatshirt. My knee still ain't right, but it's getting closer, like the black eyed peas I have simmering in a big pot of pork fat back in the kitchen. BLTs are also on the menu today in Levy. Man, I'm telling you. Why don't ya'll scoot by?

I PLAN TO STAB...
...the next politician who interviews herself or himself, as in: "Do I believe this is what's best for the American people? No, but..."

OVERHEARD
"He's very decisive once he's made up his mind."
—announcer at the Music City Bowl, talking about Vanderbilt running back Wesley Tate

Maple Street Loop

My right knee was not nearly as painful this morning, though it felt stiff as I walked the Maple Street Loop in 34:12. It felt as if it might lock a couple of times in the final mile. It was 21°F when I started. There's still snow and ice everywhere; here in Levy, for Christ's sake. I may have to vote Republican next time.

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Orange Street Loop

Man, the first thing I noticed when I woke up this morning was pain in my right knee. I limped around the house all morning, mostly cleaning, and noticed that the more I moved, the better it got. You know the way that works. My dad came to visit at about noon. Roughly an hour later, as he left, I learned that he had parked somewhat deeply into my muddy front yard. He then dragged big gobs of mud with his tires into the street and up the Taylor's heretofore immaculate driveway. He got turned around, smiled real big, waved, and honked as he drove up Orange Street Hill, oblivious to the mess. Ms. Taylor is in the hospital. Jim's spent the last several days there, returning home only to sleep. I was opening the garage before dad's car had disappeared. With the help of the Taylor's garden hose, I used rags and mops and a big broom to clean their driveway, and my knee felt almost fine when I finished. Crazy. So, I walked the Orange Street Loop in 48:11.

Levy Loop/Orange Street Loop

I walked the Levy Loop in the dark this morning in 33:19, and this evening jogged and walked the Orange Street Loop in 38:25. A lot of trees in Levy and Park Hill, and I'm sure all over central Arkansas, got battered Christmas night. I think I got lucky.

Park Hill Loop

I walked and jogged the Park Hill Loop tonight in 1:05:23. There is still a bunch of snow and ice on the roads. I nearly fell twice.

Levy Loop

I walked the snow-covered Levy Loop this afternoon in 34:14. It's a mess out there. Our power was off from about 9 p.m. last night until about 10 p.m. tonight. My cherry tree has three broken limbs, all significant. I'm not sure how it's going to look. The crepe myrtle seems close to fine. Nine inches of snow fell.

Cook's Landing/DFL

Pam just came in for the first time since the Hash Christmas party, which seems to freak her out a bit more every year. I'm not sure why. Maybe it's an age thing. It's cold and windy out, and now, at 11:17 a.m., it's starting to snow. They say we might get four inches. It was dry, but overcast and freezing as I walked and jogged the River Trail and its auxiliaries for 1:09:20 this morning. I think I went about five miles.

It's 2:35. Hard rain is freezing across Levy. My trees are coated. Pam is in my lap. Sam is on the front porch. I don't know where Jo is (not that I'm worried. She's Jo). The lower limbs of my cherry tree and crepe myrtle are touching the ground. The last time we had a  significant ice storm here, in December, 2000, this part of Levy lost power for nearly two weeks. I'm interested.

Jo walked into the house at 4:45, and meowed as if she were mad that I'd left her outside. Now she's gnawing fried chicken bones.

The ice stopped falling hours ago. At 8:05 p.m., snow is pouring down. An inch and a half has fallen so far. This is the fourth white Christmas I have seen in Arkansas, and at 9:22, the snow is three inches deep. The sky is dark orange. I hear sirens. It's wonderful out.

OVERHEARD

"Hey, it's fucking Perkins! Hey, man, merry Christmas!"

—Sam Hardcastle, walking with his wife Donna and big dog this morning on the River Trail

Here's something goofy that Yahoo® started doing this season:

Week 16

Powered by Automated InsightsChampionship: Green Bay Packers Picks Up Victory over K-SQUAD

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  Green Bay Packers(12-3)155.38
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  K-SQUAD(9-7)134.11

Green Bay Packers registered the highest point total this season (including playoffs) and beat K-SQUAD 155.38 - 134.11. Green Bay Packers has been a powerhouse and has now won five straight. This makes it two in a row for Green Bay Packers against K-SQUAD. Their last matchup was an 84.41 - 81.29 nailbiter in Week 8. Green Bay Packers started one player with zero points while K-SQUAD served up two goose eggs, meaning both sides missed scoring opportunities.

Green Bay Packers Smooth Moves

• Aaron Rodgers led the league in scoring and had the 13th-most points in the league this season with 41.60.
• Jamaal Charles ranked eighth in the league in scoring with 29.33 points.
• Picked up the Indianapolis Colts Defense, which beat their scoring projection by 91.9%, with 18.00 points against a projected 9.38.
• Green Bay Packers had 8 of their 10 starters exceed their projected points.
• The 19.17 points scored by Demaryius Thomas was the third-highest score by a WR in the league this week.

K-SQUAD Regret Tracker

• Should have started Ryan Succop, who underachieved, but still had more points than the starting K with 7.00 against a projected 7.29.
• K-SQUAD tried to fight through 2 of their 10 starters getting zeros, but could not overcome it.
• BenJarvus Green-Ellis had a season-low 1.73 points against a projected 8.11 and underachieved for the ninth time this season.
• Even though K-SQUAD lost, only 5 of their 10 starters scored less than their projected points.
• K-SQUAD lost even though both of their WRs scored above their projected points.

What If

• Green Bay Packers would be 8-7 if they played K-SQUAD every week.
• Green Bay Packers would have beaten six other teams besides K-SQUAD this week.
• Green Bay Packers would be 8-5 if they played the same schedule as K-SQUAD.
• If Green Bay Packers had played every team in the league each week, they would be 143-70.
• K-SQUAD would not have lost to any other team in the league besides Green Bay Packers this week.
• Green Bay Packers would have lost to K-SQUAD 137.16 - 109.70 had they played each other last week.
• If they played the same schedule as Green Bay Packers, K-SQUAD would be 7-6.
• K-SQUAD would be 144-76 if they played every team every week.

Game Notes

• Green Bay Packers has had four wins this year where their opponent beat their average score.
• Three of the seven losses for K-SQUAD this season have come when their opponent had their highest-scoring week of the season.
• This matchup featured the two highest-scoring teams in the league this week.
• K-SQUAD scored 134.11 points and lost. It is the highest losing score in the league this season.
• Green Bay Packers is on the longest active win streak in the league, winning five straight games.
• K-SQUAD bested their projected points again, the ninth time this season they have done so, including a streak of three straight games.
• Green Bay Packers won even though K-SQUAD performed better against their scoring projection. K-SQUAD beat their 105.67 projected points by 26.9%, while Green Bay Packers outscored their 126.31-point projection by 23.0%.
• The best group of RBs in the league this week was on Green Bay Packers, which got 63.61 points from the position.

Ridge Road Loop

I walked and jogged the Ridge Road Loop this afternoon in 51:04, after stuffing myself at Bryce's Cafeteria in Texarkana four hours earlier. Heck, I'm still full.

Sweet Baby Jesus Memorial 1.1-Mile Race to Hell
Results
1. Ken Starnzy, 7:48
2. David Meroney, 8:04
3. John Kelly, 8:32
4. Josh Bornhurst, 8:39
5. Holcomb Mosely, 8:39
6. Zach, 8:45
7. John Cohn, 8:46
8. Greg Eason, 10:22
9. Kayce Hall, 10:25
10. Anna Holman, 10:30
11. Greg Eason's girlfriend, 10:31
12. Jayme Sturgeon, 11:06
13. Susie Philips, 11:27
14. Bob Marston, 12:06
15. Ms. Bob Marston, 12:14
16. Elaine Gimblet, 12:15
attendance: 34

Hash/DFL/Cooper Bowl Final

Crutch mailed me a fifteen-pound Petit Jean® ham. I fussed at him. You know; "Come on, man. That's all you could do? Fifteen fucking pounds?" The Hash should love it. I walked a total of 2.2 miles as I set the Sweet Baby Jesus Memorial 1.1-Mile Race to Hell over the first portion of the Maple Street Loop.

The Green Bay Packers and K-Squad got Cooper Bowl XVI started last night. The Packers began as 22-point favorites, but, after Atlanta's Saturday night victory over Detroit, have dropped to about nine-point favorites. K-Squad's receiver for Atlanta scored 29.94 points, a little over sixteen more than was projected. The Packers' running back for Detroit scored 13.59 points, about three more than projected. The Packers will be done by dinnertime today, and K-Squad by bedtime. We'll see. If anyone makes anyone watch Sunday Night Football, cheer like hell against Marshawn Lynch. Cheer for him to step on a broken beer bottle, and then into a bucket of hydrochloric acid.*

*in fact, Lynch is playing in Seattle tonight. Do you think Heidi would take care of this for me? Tell her it's a lot easier than it sounds. I'll pay for the plane tickets, of course

GREEN BAY PACKERS 155.38, K-SQUAD 134.11 Aaron Rodgers led the way, with great support from Jamaal Charles, Demaryius Thomas, Alfred Morris, Mikel Leshoure, and even kicker Garrett Hartley, and, oh, also Indianapolis' defense, as the Packers won their first Cooper Bowl. Marshawn Lynch did his best, but he had too much to do. It's fine with me now that no one put his feet in acid.

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Covered Bridge Loop

I walked and jogged two laps of the 2.25-mile Covered Bridge Loop in Burns Park this morning by myself, and then mostly walked a lap with Ron and Elaine. It took me a total of 1:30:17. I forgot to take splits, but I think I did the first two laps in about 28 minutes, and the last in 34 minutes, give or take.

OVERHEARD
"You don't know shit, do you?...No, Tommy, fuck you!"
—pissed-off, heavily tattooed, twenty-something overweight redneck woman on her cell phone at Kroger, trying to find out what kind of cheese her mother had sent her for

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Orange Street Loop

I walked and jogged the Orange Street Loop this morning in 41:51.

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Maple Street Loop

I walked the Maple Street Loop tonight in 30:21, after a three-hour wedding rehearsal delayed by people driving in from Fayetteville.

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Cook's Landing

I walked and jogged (for a total of about five minutes) with Ron and Elaine, and Suzy Phillips from Cook's Landing on the River Trail this morning for 1:23:12. We went a little less than five miles, I'd say.

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Lakewood/DFL

I walked randomly around the Lakewood and Park Hill neighborhoods with Ron and Elaine this morning for 1:19:54. It's a guess, but I'll say we went four and a half miles. We walked slowly, and afterward ate at the Donut Shoppe in the Little Old Ladies Used Bookstore Shopping Centre.

The official Cooper Bowl line came out today, and the Green Bay Packers—109.70-71.54 semifinal winners over Russellmania III—are favored over K-Squad by 23.27 points. Yahoo® projects a final score of Green Bay 130.34, K-Squad 107.07. If I could find anyone willing to pick up the action, I'd load up on K-Squad. I think they should be favored. I don't believe those projections consider recent trends, but are rather based on averages for the entire season. K-Squad—137.16-117.89 semifinal winners over the Complete Sellouts—has outscored the Packers in five of the last seven weeks, ever since the Packers won a lackluster, 84.41-81.29 victory over K-Squad on the last weekend of October.

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Basketball Court Loop/DFL

I walked and jogged two laps of the Burns Park Basketball Court Loop this morning in 2:53:52, with splits of 1:21:55 and 1:31:57. I jogged a good deal of the first lap, and didn't feel especially well, and indeed planned to pack it in, but, alas, Ron and Elaine showed up moments before I finished. I heard Elaine through the woods shout, "Rockamudo!" I took a drink of water, ate a PowerBar Gel, and walked the second lap with them. I'm tired. I might've been too busy yesterday to have expected more.

The Democrat Football League Green Bay Packers will play in their third Cooper Bowl, and second in consecutive years, unless Russellmania III's kicker—Rob Bironas of the New York Jets—kicks in tonight's Monday Night game at least twice as many field goals as any man has ever kicked. The Packers lead, 109.70-69.54. It's silly to even consider that a kicker might score 40.16 points. My team will most likely play K-Squad, which leads the Complete Sellouts, 137.16-97.54. The Sellouts have Tennessee Titans' quarterback Jake Locker going tonight. Locker would have to have the best game of his career for the Sellouts to win. The Yahoo® projection says the Packers would defeat K-Squad by about fifteen points next weekend, but it fails to consider recent trends. K-Squad has blitzed its way through three consecutive victories, and has outscored the Packers routinely through the second half of the season.

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Maple Street Loop/Hash/DFL

I jogged and walked the Maple Street Loop this morning in 24:52, quickly enough to excise some of the tension I feel over this afternoon's semifinal march to the Democrat Football League Cooper Bowl. All of the Green Bay Packers' players and all but Russellmania III's kicker go today, so the game might be settled by bedtime. Our winner will play the winner between K-Squad and the Complete Sellouts in the Cooper Bowl next week.

Petra set an old-fashioned Hash run this afternoon. We were way out in the woods, up thickly overgrown hill and dale for 1:32:29. I ran for the first twenty minutes or so to catch the field on the River Trail, and then climbed and jumped and kicked mud off my shoes for most of the next hour. I'm calling it five miles. Now, back in Levy, I'm pleased to report that the NFL Green Bay Packers defeated the Chicago Bears to secure the NFC North Division championship, and the Democrat Football League Packers lead Russellmania III, 109.70-68.21. My players are through. Russellmania has a tight end going tonight, and a kicker going on Monday Night. They are projected to score 15.2 points. They will have to score 41.49 points to tie the score. I don't think a kicker and a tight end have combined to score that many points. Nothing is given, but the Packers are very likely to play in the Cooper Bowl next weekend.

OVERHEARD
"Lisa, vampires are make-believe, like elves, and gremlins, and Eskimos."
—Homer Simpson

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Basketball Court Loop/Time of the Month Hash

I walked and jogged the Burns Park Basketball Court Loop in 1:26:34 this morning. My plan was to push it, but Ron and Elaine, who began the loop at the Covered Bridge, by coincidence were right at the court when I started, so I walked the first couple of miles with them. I discovered after they turned away from me that my legs were deader than the reaction you'd get to jokes about twenty grade-school kids being shot to death, so jogged and walked very slowly back to my car.

Ron, Elaine, and I drove to Hot Springs and jogged and walked about three miles with the Hot Springs Time of the Month Hash. It was a pub crawl from the top of Tower Mountain and back. The only tough part was the walk back up the long, twisting hill to the tower. I think everyone there had a blast.

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Ghetto Cat Loop/First Tee

I walked the Ghetto Cat Loop this morning in 31:13, and realized that I'd kind of missed it. I thought about the perfect little black cat which inspired the name, back in, gosh, '09. Part of me still regrets not toting that kid home.

Jeff Krupsaw and I played one loop of the par-three course, and the first six holes of the regular course at First Tee this afternoon. I never once wrote anything on a scorecard, but I'm pretty sure I had a 38 for the par-three, and am positive I played the first six holes of the big course in nine-over, with three bogies and three doubles. The weather was perfect—upper-fifties, overcast, and absolutely calm. Also, the new assistant golf pro there has become the current Miss Little Rock. Her name is Monica. She's funny, and cuter than two motherfuckers.

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Basketball Court Loop/38th Street Loop

I overslept, so ran backwards from the Grassy Knoll until I met Ron Gimblet and Sandy Venable on the Burns Park Basketball Court Loop, and walked the rest of the way. In all, I was out for 1:15:35, and probably went about four miles. This evening, starting at about 5:45, I jogged and walked the 38th Street Loop in 25:45.

OVERHEARD
"Why do they want kids? I mean, I've always noticed that the happiest people I know don't have kids."
—Ron Gimblet, after I told him Mr. and Ms. Everyday Running might adopt children

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Basketball Court Loop/Humpin' Hash

Dear Mr. and Ms. Everyday Running,

I sure wish ya'll'd go do a lap of the Rocky Raccoon course and file me a report, particularly in regards to its degrees of ascent and descent. I'm wondering whether any of the courses available to me come close to satisfying my specificity-of-training index.

Yours,

Rockamundo

P.S. I jogged and walked two laps of the Burns Park Basketball Court Loop this morning and early afternoon in 2:41:07. That's pretty fucking close to 9.6 miles. It was easy. My lap splits were 1:20:20 and 1:20:47.* On the first lap, I alternated three-minute jogs with two-minute walks, except I did not run uphill. Instead, if the uphills came during the first three minutes of each five, I would make up for not running during those three-minute segments by jogging during the two-minute segments. It wasn't long before I realized I needed to start banking minutes, or, in other words, jogging whenever the course was downhill, and also when it was level—or close to level—according to feel. This was particularly true as the rout ascended toward the Boy Scout Trail parking area (also known to the Little Rock Hash as the Grassy Knoll. That blonde-headed college girl named Sarah made her last run there, a couple of days before ya'll flew to get married). By the time I finished the first lap, I had a total of five running-minutes banked (which is to say that on the second lap I could've walked five extra minutes). The most significant advantage of this way of proceeding is that it serves as a nearly perfect blood-glucose gauge. As I think you both could imagine, it requires the conduction of a considerable amount of elementary math (i.e.; "OK, so you were five minutes, twenty-two seconds over, and you just walked for forty-eight seconds up that hill during an otherwise required running segment, so now you're four-minutes, thirty-four seconds over. ...Fuck, man, wait; are you sure?"). The problem is, the math eventually consumes me; consequently, on the second lap, I walked the ascents and jogged the descents, and played the levels and slight ascents-descents according to feel (ultimately, as I proceed through the final eight weeks of preparation for the Rocky Raccoon 50, "according to feel" will apply to every degree, I think). It surprised me to see that my lap splits were so even; I clearly felt better after the second lap than at the end of the first. That would be hard to explain. I think I might try four laps this Saturday morning, probably alone. I don't think I'd want to subject the Gimblet Group to my idiosyncratic analism (I write "idiosyncratic" because I'm sure that everyone has at least something about which they are anal. For me, of course, thousands of things tragically fall into that category). My blood glucose when I got home, after eating one PowerBar Energy gel—roughly forty-five minutes into the first lap—was at 113, or in that roughly 90-120 perfect zone.

P.P.S. This evening I jogged and walked about three miles with the Humpin' Hash on a circuit which began and ended at E.J.'s. I felt great, wonderful in fact, jogging almost every step of the way. The only problem was that my blood sugar dropped off the chart and the fucking dickhead Richard Short Ladder called an ambulance, and an embarrassing scene ensued when all I needed was half a fucking glass of Coke. ...No, wait. I'm fine. I'm no longer embarrassed. I don't like Short Ladder, but it really has nothing to do with his calling an ambulance. He didn't know better. I'll tell you sometime.

OVERHEARD
"These guys are just like fucking bugs. You stomp 'em, and they come back and you got'ta stomp 'em again." —Green Bay Packers Coach Raid Ant & Roach®, commenting on Russellmania III, whom his team defeated 115.16-102.71 in the Democrat Football League regular season, and will face in the DFL playoff semifinals this weekend. The Packers are slightly more than thirty-point favorites

*you might want to quit reading at this point; trust me, really, because I'm about to expose the depths of mankind's potential for anal reasoning

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Basketball Court Loop

I want to make one thing clear: as much as I admire the people I know who help populate the Houston metro, they did not bear on my cheering last night for the Houston Texans. My cheers were, rather, mostly based on my jealousy over the recent success of the New England Patriots, and for Texans back Arian Foster, who plays for the Green Bay Packers. Furthermore, I'm sure those people didn't realize the Texans were even playing before they read the Monday edition of Pam's Boy, and probably have no idea that New England beat the cow shit out of Houston. I know for a fact that no one who walked the Burns Park Basketball Court Loop with me this morning was aware of it. We had to cut the loop short, since Elaine had an appointment, and probably covered about four and a half miles. I forgot to stop my watch. It's at 2:52:38 as I sit on my couch in Levy.

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Cook's Landing/Hays Senior Center/Levy Loop

It's 38°F at 10:50 a.m., and the wind on the Arkansas River blew very hard. Ron and Elaine and I walked from Cook's Landing along the River Trail and through the Burns Park soccer complex for 1:53:43 this morning. I think we went about six and a half miles. I know I swam a total of 1000 yards at the Senior Center this afternoon. I warmed up with 500 in 12:26.9, then swam 4x100, with one-minute intervals, in 2:02.1, 2:02.3, 2:00.1, and 2:01.4. I warmed down with a 100 in 2:31.6. This evening, starting at a little after six, I jogged the Levy Loop in 21:58, with splits of 11:06, and 10:52.

Now I'm set to watch the NFL's first Game of the Year—New England hosting Houston. I'll cheer like heck for Arian Foster, and the Texans in general.

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38th Street Loop/Maple Street Loop

It's gray and warm this morning, nearly dank. I walked the Maple Street Loop in 31:48. They say it's supposed to get cold in a day or two, and, in fact, at 6:15 p.m., there's a front rolling through. It's thundering west of Levy, and I just hurried through a walk and jog of the Maple Street Loop to beat the storm. I finished in 25:41. It's now pouring harder than two motherfuckers.

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Basketball Court Loop

I'll tell you what, it's amazing how much more rugged the Basketball Court Loop at Burns Park is when you're trying to go fast. I alternated three-minute jogs with two-minute walks to complete the 4.8 miles in 1:19:44. I fell once, when instead of wasting ten seconds to walk across a creek, I wasted thirty seconds picking myself up and wiping off the mud and shit. I'll be bruised. I'd planned to go at least two laps, but you know how that goes. I did the one, and then decided to drive straight to my couch and turn on football.

44

Levy Loop/Hays Senior Center

I walked the Levy Loop this morning in 30:21. It's overcast and damp and 58°F, same as it's been every morning for the last two or three days. This afternoon I swam intervals at the Senior Center. I did 2X5X50 yards, with thirty-second intervals for the first set, two minutes between sets, and one-minute intervals for the second set, in 51.8, 53.0, 53.2, 53.4, and 54.5, and 54.9, 54.8, 54.7, 54.6, and 53.6. I swam a 300-yard warmup in 7:08.3, and a 100-yard warmdown in 2:25. I literally felt as if I might have a heart attack after the first set, thus the two-minute break, and the longer intervals.

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Basketball Court Loop

You know, I'm usually not much of a cake guy, but goddamn, man, Sandy Venable brought Ron Gimblet a birthday cake this morning that was fantastic. It was so moist I was tempted to wring it out. It was angel food, with chocolate icing, and I mean, fuck, it was great, at least as good as any I've ever eaten. We ate it after we walked a little over four miles in 1:16:42.

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River Trail/Hays Senior Center/Orange Street Loop

I jogged and walked about four miles on the River Trail this morning, give or take a bit. I'm not sure. I do know that Bill Brass, Elaine Gimblet, Suzy Phillips, and I jogged three miles in 32:51. We were at times also with Ron Gimblet, Bob McKinney, Yvette Thompson, and Sandy Venable. The jog was pretty easy, but I could feel the fried chicken gizzards and biscuits and gravy from last night trying to work their way up. That's it. I'm done. No more gizzards until after February 2, or perhaps late the night of. You know, assuming the hot dog roller at Chris Vratil's favorite mini-mart is empty.

I swam 1000 yards at the Senior Center this afternoon in 24:35, twenty-two seconds faster than I had previously gone in this swimming comeback. Crazy thing is, it was almost easy. I believe the most plausible explanation for that seeming physiological incongruity is that fat helps inefficient swimmers, and I'm fatter now than I was in September. My 250-yard splits were 6:06, 6:25, 6:07, and 5:58.

This evening I alternated slow four-minute jogs with slow one-minute walks to complete the Orange Street Loop in 38:37. My splits were 12:42, 13:15, and 12:40.

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Park Hill Loop

I walked the Park Hill Loop tonight in 1:17:31.

25

35th Street Loop/DFL

I jogged the 35th Street Loop this evening in 43:38, with splits of 11:10, 11:12, 10:40, and 10:36. It's amazing how damp I got on the third day of December. The air is heavy, and it's 71°F at 6:49 p.m.

Thanks mostly to Washington Redskins rookie running back Alfred Morris, the DFL Green Bay Packers pulled away for a 115.16-102.71 victory over Russellmania III, and will enter the playoffs tied for the regular-season championship at 10-3, and as the second-seed. Morris rushed for 124 yards.

OVERHEARD
"Without the fan, there is no point to the enterprise. The foundation of football is not the running and passing and kicking and tackling and fumbling and intercepting—it's the rooting."
—Joel Achenbach of The Washington Post

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Maple Street Loop/DFL

I jogged and walked the Maple Street Loop this morning in 25:19. It's muggy out there on the second of December.

Russellmania III leads the Green Bay Packers after Sunday's games 102.71-96.81. All of Russellmania's team has played. The Packers have New York Giants receiver Hakeem Nicks and Washington Redskins back Alfred Morris going for Monday Night Football. They are projected to score a total of almost exactly twenty-five points. If they each scored their lowest point totals of the season, the Packers would win 104.04-102.71. Regardless, unless a miracle occurs and the Complete Sellouts lose, victory is no longer a practical concern for the Packers. Win or lose, they will be the second seed in the Democrat Football League playoffs, provided the Sellouts win.

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Covered Bridge Loop

I walked approximately 13.5 miles with Ron and Elaine on the Covered Bridge Loop at Burns Park this morning in 3:21:29, with 2.25-mile splits of 34:01, 32:16, 34:01, 33:30, 34:51, and 32:50.

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