Weekend Update

Total miles run since entry to NYC marathon/this year: 43.31/361.8
Total miles swam since entry to marathon: 1.38
Total miles biked since entry to marathon: 12.2
Exercise calories burned since entry/this year: 6,943/67,965
Weight: 197.5
Beers in last 24 hours: 4
Total raised towards goal: $375

Today, you get a photo from last week's wedding.

Nobody, and I mean nobody, should have to run on a treadmill, inside, for 1 hour and 40 minutes straight. But that's what I did this morning, so I could crank out 8.15 miles and do a little warm-up and cool-down. I scraped up my leg on the treadmill belt, cursed loudly and looked worriedly towards next week when I have to run 9, or maybe its 10 miles, on the treadmill.

I tried to watch a portable DVD player to kill the time, but there was no way. The bouncing motion of running made it hard to focus on the screen, and I ended feeling all weird and breathing in a bad rhythm. So I turned it off. Towards the end, I scraped my leg on the treadmill belt and got a nasty bruise as I was trying to catch my falling iPod. Today, I'm getting a strap so it stays fastened to my arm while I run.

Maybe some of you are asking: Why not get up early and run outside? I'll tell you why. It was 102 when I went to bed at 10 p.m. last night. It was 100 at 7 a.m. this morning. Yesterday, the official temperature at Sky Harbor International Airport was 118-degrees (that ties the 4th warmest day on record EVER in Phoenix), but unofficial readings at thermometers across the area were reading as high as 125. Two thermometers at our office building yesterday read 124 degrees! People's car air conditioners couldn't even keep up. Only twice has it ever "officially been over 120 in Phoenix – once in 1995 when it officially hit 120, and once in 1990 when it officially hit 122. It's amazing, really, when you think about it, that more people don't die as a result of the heat in the city itself.

I've only been outside to get the paper and to go to Dunkin Donuts this morning. Seriously, I don't know if I'll go back outside today. Heidi wants to go to the pool, but who wants to swim when the water temperature is over 100? Ahhh, summer in Phoenix. Does it get any better than this?

I think I'm going to do some in-house work today ... Anyway, despite it all, I've managed to keep on the workout schedule.

See y'all later ...