The Joy of the Down Week

This week's training for Cross Country season is EXTREMELY light.  You notice that the word "extremely" is bold, blue, and in caps?  That's for a reason.  Four days of 4-7 miles in those days with three days completely off?  Unheard of.  I'll let you know how those runs go when I get to them.

In other news I finished the first third of the Lord Of The Rings books.  (For any who don't know, LOTR is a very long story about:

Hobbits

Elves

A creepy human-like character named Gollum

Dwarves

A king and a wizard

and last but certainly not least

A magic ring.)

I say first third for a reason.  The "stories" that were seen in the motion picture adaptation (which I have not fully seen yet) were derived from the great EPIC (again, bold and different color along with caps for emphasis) of the LOTR story.  The epic is split into six books.  Six, not three (a trilogy), or four (a sissy saga about vampires that sparkle), but six.  Six because Tolkien (he wrote the books for those of you who have only seen the movies) is a boss and like all boss-ly authors, he can get away with writing a giant story in a large number of books (see Narnia, Wheel of Time, etc).  I have begun Part II, if you will (Books III and IV for those of you counting), and will continue to read them so I may watch the movies and not be completely confused as most who watched them when the originally came out were.




That's really it.  Just wanted to update this thing with what I've been up to since my ride.


Sorry for the excessive use of parenthetical expressions in this blog.  Remember, I'm not forcing you to read it.