Travel Day

Drove home from Ottawa today. Took our time and went the small highway route most of the way, stopping a couple of times for the little ones to run around, etc. Great drive, not much traffic, and we're safe. I hate driving and avoid it as much as possible, and the big highways are such a pain in the ass for too many reasons to list. The sitting for 5 hours didn't do my knee too much good either, and I'll have to stretch and ice tonight (not that this is unusual) and hope that it's ready to go for another 5km run tomorrow night. I have to hold myself back and ease into running again, though I feel like a total loser running so little...

What's more to say when spending the entire day in a car? Not much. Nice to see Canada get a few medals on the board finally. Awesome swim for Ryan Cochrane in the 1500m, picking up a bronze medal and the only one of the entire meet for Canada. Not only is he the first Canuck to go under 15:00, he's destroyed that barrier and brought it down to 14:40. The 15:00 barrier in the swimming mile was akin to the 4:00 mile in running, just for reference, so to go that far under is unbelievable. He'll be someone to watch in London 2012 given that he's really young, especially for a miler.

Also of note was the sweep of the medals by the Jamaican women in the 100m. That country's 4x100 relays, both men and women, will be a must-see event for sure!

Happy running everyone!