Cholesterol

Anyone who knows me will tell you that I eat like a 7 year old.  I like Fruity Pebbles for breakfast.  Until February this year instead of milk I would use half and half or even heavy cream.  Then I got a cholesterol test!

The doctor said my number, a little over 200 wasn't high enough for medication but I should watch what I eat.  So I pretty much cut out creams and sauces and now I put skim milk on my Fruity Pebbles.

Another thing they do when you give blood now is they tell your cholesterol history.  I went from a 219 on February 19 to 181 on October 13 this year.  Glad to see that.  I don't know the ratio but right now I'm just happy with the number.

Signs are up!!

Saturday and Sunday were the last of my really long training days. 
Saturday I got out for a 132 mile tour of the city and the IM course.  No one joined me this time.  There was a little wind and I can't say that I felt the best I've ever felt but it was alright and much better than March 2007 when we fought winds the entire day down to Florence and back.
Sunday I got out of the house early for a 180 minute run.  I'm a little confused here.  My pattern for the past several months has been that I run the first 10 miles at 9 min/mile pace thereby "buying" myself an additional 1 mile by the time I get to 90 minutes.  After that I pretty much run at a 10 min/mile pace.  So a 140 minute run meant 15 plus a little miles, 150 minutes meant 16 plus, and so on.
Two weeks ago I ran 17.27 miles in 160 minutes.  Last week was kind of a dud because of the extreme heat and humidity but Sunday in 180 minutes I only managed to run 17.77 miles.  So for all the extra 20 minutes I was out there I only managed to crawl another 1/2 mile???????
I need to really look at the numbers and see what's up with that!

Calvin & Hobbes (click to see the whole thing)

Tropical Storm Rick

Rick has been downgraded to a tropical storm.  Last night they came over and put hurrican shutters on all the windows.

The winds blowing a bit and it's raining but that's about all.

CABO (sorry, I know there's a lot of pics here)