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I’m in training

 I used to aspire to running a marathon.  I trained for that purpose several times, but I don’t think I’m really designed to be a runner.  Each time I prepared for a marathon I either broke down with an injury during training, or during the event.  Farthest I ever actually ran during a marathon was about 20 miles.  That’s a little short. So I’m out for a walk the other day and got to thinking about marathon times.  I never completed a marathon, but I still have a time.  During training one year I was running 8 mile days.  At that pace I ran the marathon distance over a period of 3 ½ days, so that’s my standing marathon record time, 3 ½ days. I think I can beat that. If I start before dawn to beat the heat, I walk 10 miles in a day, no problem.  If I could do that again on the next day, then again on the day after, I could reduce my best marathon time by an entire day!  I’ll keep walking to build my endurance.  The weather will start cooling.  The high here is projected to be less than 90 next Sunday.  I think I will have an improved marathon time by the end of the year!  
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Horse Soccer

 We were talking with some friends here about Horse Soccer.  They have horses and had just gotten back from kicking the ball around.  I might have expressed some skepticism.  “Oh no” she assured me, “The horses love it.  They run right up to the ball and kick it.”  I might have expressed additional skepticism. She uploaded a video to my YouTube account so I could see: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JzZUvObczY Son of a gun.  The horses really do look like they’re enjoying it.