Should Napping be punishable and more
This morning, well let me back up. Starting tomorrow I will have a video camera and I will start video taping many of the workouts and kind of the daily routine. This past monday I was given a nice little workout just a small track workout. Started with a warmup then I ran 4×200 (tad bit slower than the new record of 19.30) I averaged 37 seconds on these followed by 4 x400 at an avg of 1.28 followed by 2 x800 at an avg of 3:17 followed by 2miles at 15:49. I was still sore on Wed when I had to do the TIME TRIAL bike ride. So back to this morning I was running with Michelle (aka Weather Girl/Lola) and we were discussing NAPS. A bit of History, Winston Churchill took a nap everyday even during WWII when England was being bombed. He would often work till 1 am. As for me as my training ramps up and I start having 18 hours of training per week with some of this being 6 plus hour days on the weekend I often find a need for a catnap. However my lovely wife, RENEE (aka The Gestapo) believes a nap for an adult is a waste of time. So this morning I was explaining to The Weathergirl that I have to often hide in order to take a nap. Often I will hide inbetween our daugthers two beds and sleep on the floor or like yesterday morning after a hard bike workout I told the lovely Gestapo I was going for a shower only to climb back in bed for a 15 minute power nap. This am was no exception. The Weathergirl has me doing MILE REPEATS so we will warmup for 2 miles then run 5 1mile repeats at a 730 (I am more like 733) pace. This is a very hard run for me. I happened to explain to the WEATHERGIRL that on monday I had this difficult track workout. Her first comment is CARLA (aka THE COACH) must be mad at me giving me two hard runs like this. Well maybe I need to change CARLA’s aka to the Gestapo??. In truth I dont want my wife mad about the nickname (and she has heard me call her this) she is very supportive of the training I do. As you will soon see most of my training is done while the rest of my household is sleeping.
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Suck it up Kevin!!! No time for naps or complaints, you’ll soon be pushing 50. Hope to see you 11/15.
manny
MANNY I may soon be pushing 50 but just a reminder that means you will soon be pushing 50 as well. Come join me for a little 140.6 mile race. Maybe Fantozzi can drive you on the 112 mile bike ride 
Keep it up, Kevin! Look forward to the Sypolt-cam!!
Rock on, brother.