Laser eye surgery done

I can see! Really! I had my surgery a week ago (22nd) and now I see 20-20 in both eyes. It's crazy, I keep feeling like I am forgetting something every morning and every night... and I often think I cannot find my glasses (it's cuz they were donated DUNH!). It was a very strange experience, kinda scary, but I'm so glad I did it. I had to take a few days off running of course, and I can't get in the pool for at least another week, but it's not like I'm swimming that much these days anyways ;-)

I have been running a bit, trying to be more consistent in running 3-4 times a week, and so far I'm being reasonably good at keeping that up. I start spin class at Twist on the 10th of Jan, so that will get a typical week looking like this:
M - run easy 35min
T - run easy 40min, add strides if feeling OK
W - run easy 50min
R - spin class 1h10
F - off or easy 30min run
St or Sun - run easy 1h30 to 2h

Totally do-able, I'm almost doing that now. Then I will have to add in one swim a week, hopefully in Feb sometime, after the First Half Half-Marathon. I will likely kill the Friday run at that time so I can swim Friday morning. I could also add in a Wed evening swim... hmm... let's just wait and see... I have to not get too ambitious here... ;-)

I read a really interesting interview with Scott Tingley on Slowtwitch this morning. I appreciated his perspective of athlete as self-centered person, and how he's been morphing himself into a different person, learning humility and perspective. It was a good reminder that sport is just sport, and that it's difficult but important to keep some perspective on that. While running this morning (1h30, nice and steady 15k), I tried to be observant. I saw some beautiful things (all the fresh snow on Cypress Mountain and the partially clear sky over English Bay) and some saddening things (a person sleeping under the Georgia St. Viaduct, garbage and dog shit along the seawall in Yaletown, and so on). The cranes at the Olympic Athlete's Village are huge; construction is 6 -7 days a week there. I remember when half of False Creek was nothing but parking lot and city works yards. The Plaza of Nations buildings are being torn down now; the plaza roof between them was taken down almost a year ago. I remember when the Plaza first opened, for Expo 86. The more I tried to look around the more I realized that I am liking my home city less and less. When did Vancouver become the home to so many douchebags and assholes?

My brother and I have been talking about jointly buying an acreage on a lake somewhere out of town, somewhere to go when you need a break from the city. I have to admit I am looking forward to having that place to escape to... heck, in a few years I may want to leave entirely and go live somewhere less... busy... For the time being, I will work at not letting this kind of stuff stress me out, but also not being complacent about it.

The new year is upon us. I will have to do some thinking about these things.

AP