Wednesday, April 17, 2013

Baseball night with the guys...

Monday, April 15, 2013

Road running’s greatest spotlight, the Boston Marathon, was used by someone as an opportunity to terrorize.  No one yet knows the specifics as to ‘why’, but more people have been killed and injured randomly by unknown or unknowns likely hoping to send some kind of message.  Whatever message they were hoping to send, the world by and large will simply look at them as the latest whack job and completely discount whatever it is they’re trying to say.  Certainly my heart-felt prayers go out to those impacted by this heinous event.

I had a baseball night planned with Don and John.  We’d finished the Baseball Documentary and had decided to gather regularly to watch baseball movies.  I had five or so in my collection, but we turned to Netflix to find something none of us had seen and came up with ‘Diminished Capacity’ starring Alan Alda and Matthew Broderick.  It was an interesting story about a man suffering from Alzheimer’s (Alan Alda) who was in possession of a priceless baseball card, Frank ‘Wildfire’ Schulte, and his efforts to sell it to raise the money he needed to continue to live independently. As a baseball movie, we rated it collectively as a ‘B’.  Our ratings for baseball movies are somewhat more generous than how we’d rate movies generally speaking.

I’d tried to go to the park for a Survival Workout with Dakota, but found that she couldn’t walk the trail and returned to the car and home.  With limited time, I hopped on the trainer for a short ride.  I had to get the spaghetti dinner ready before the guys showed, which was a decent enough reason to cut it short.  The spaghetti and garlic toast with smoothies was a hit and is the perfect meal for baseball night, in case anyone is considering taking this on as a special night with the guys.

Bike duration:  30 minutes.
Training Heart Rate:  120 bpm.
Calories burned during workout:  425.

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