exercise machines; out to get me

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         I wrote about the run on the day we left the US when I was pushing the pace all the time.  Well, today, I was back to mechanically moving my legs.  Not a terrible thing, but I need to get moving.  I found a 4-week training schedule for a marathon.  I will begin this regime this weekend—conveniently 4 weeks before the Moscow Marathon. 

Runs will be 10 miles, and 8 miles, 5 miles, etc. with the longest at 18 miles.  I hope I will have the time to do it—I’m not worried about the physical demands.  I am worried about eating enough.

            The great thing about being back in Albania is that I know where to go.  I ran through the park and around some neighborhoods this morning.  Albanians are trying to be healthy.  There have always been a heap of people walking all over the place in the mornings, but THIS morning, I came across a new addition to the park—a bunch of exercise machines.  It looked like a bunch of ants crowded around the anthill.  Every machine was in use. 

            I have some poison ivy problems and I truly lost my hydrocortisone at the point in the rush through security when I thought I lost my iPod.  I asked for hydrocortisone at a pharmacy.  Stupidly, I showed him my 1000 lek bill.  When I asked how much, he did some figuring and came up with 999 lek.  What a coincidence.  Maybe I shouldn't assume that everyone is out to get me.