Friday............

Friday is my toughest day of the week. I am usually one of the first Clevelanders to arrive downtown every Friday morning. It is my day to open the cafe to the needs of the workforce as they all wrap up another week. My first costumer's are either with ATandT, lawyers prepping for an early meeting, or nurses enjoying a Friday after work beer or ten. Because we are a coffee shop with a full bar, we attract many third shifters.

Business is often busy and I commonly work a nine hour shift. Needless to say, I get tired. I like to train after work and into the early evening, but sometimes motivation is hard to locate as my batteries wear down.

During the summer, I often take Fridays entirely off from training as I rest up for big weekends on the bike and recover from the Thursday long run. Races tapers always include an off day on Friday.

During these months I train most Fridays. I especially like a Friday swim with solo lanes often available.
Today however I decided not to swim. I had the energy for the swim, but I just wasn't up to the commute. It was cold and I didn't want to absorb the mental fatigue of the bus trip.

Instead I did a trainer/strength workout. It was awesome! It was just what I needed mentally.

The flexibility in adjusting workouts based on what I think will provide the best results is tough. I don't want to chump out of a workout, but I also want to get the most out of it.

I know that I must use my energy and resources with care. If I used the remainder of my strength enduring a bus stop wait in the cold, then it may effect my swim adversely. where as I may get more out of doing a good workout in my living room. That was the choice I made today. I think it worked out well.

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While watching our idiotic congress waisting time dealing with the steroid issue/OJ in court again/ Michal Vick/ Marion Jones/Moss/ Pacman/ Clemons not knowing when to shut up/ and all the other things big time sports offer us, it was nice to see two things this week.

One was the decision 5 of 6 OSU Juniors made to forgo the NFL one more year and return for their senior seasons. 6'8" 313 pound OT Alex Boone said he was not yet ready as a player or as an adult. They all want to finish what they started and get that National Championship. In contrast to last years exodus to the NFL this is really refreshing. This will be a team I will want to root for. Hope it works out better than it did for The team that returned to Ann Arbor for the same goal this past year....

The other news roud here has Bbops school, Cleveland State University mens basketball team continuing with the success all of the NEOOhio teams have enjoyed this past year. Last night the CSU Vikings beat #12 Butler....Congrats.