Get me some air!

So on Saturday I made the comment that I would get a run in on Sunday in the snow, but after stopping to get a coffee at Caribou, MJ and Kristen made a surprise stop at the casa and there went the afternoon, so to speak.

Actually I got off easy as Di spent the day in the car driving KJ back to DePere and then had to negotiate the drive home on her own on snow covered roads and some crazy traffic.

Well today is Tuesday and I have just gone 4 miles and what an experience. I seem to be getting worse. My intent today was to run some pick ups of 100 to 220 yards each with a spirited walk in between. Well, the first one went pretty well but by the 3rd or 4th it became a real struggle.

I simply could not get the air in to my lungs. The coughing and the congestion in the lungs was pretty significant but the biggest problem was my inability to breathe in air. Temps were in the mid 20's so it was not frigid, but still I could not draw in enough air to keep going. At the end of each pick up it was a struggle to maintain composure.

Sit here right now and will make the call to Gronski in the AM before the trip to Iowa, but I also wonder if this is a matter of not having run in several weeks and trying to do too much? In any event, it sucks and makes me long for the days when I could run and run and run!

The picture today is actually from a few weeks back in NYC as I walked back to hotel from my meeting at Paragon. The NYPD was doing one of their test runs as part of the beefed up homeland security tests that are so common there now.

Thought it was timely to post this, as the President goes on TV tonight with his 2007 State of the Union speech and there is so much complaining on the part of the general public about Iraq, where is Osama, etc. How quickly people have forgotten and how they took the administration to task for not being ready for things that September day.

It was incredible to hear people laughing at the police as they did their trial run that afternoon in January. With the heavy traffic at 3:30 PM in downtown Manhattan, my hat goes off to them to trying to be ready when it happens again. Here is hoping that all they do is run test runs and never have to do this for real!

We really have forgotten how bad it was that day and how "lost" we were.