This Can't Be Monday...

  Well the final week of prep before the DC Half.  My morning run had the makings of a horrible run my music wasn't working, exhaustion from the one hour time change, and the realization this run probalby wouldn't make a difference in Saturday's race.  Started off pretty slow and just did a comfortable pace.  A really uneventful run...besides the fact that I must not have gotten the memo that before 6:30am you don't have to use a turn signal in Baltimore City.

  So I just had time to check the splits for the 4 miles and 9:03, 8:25, 8:03, and 8:06...for a run that I didn't care too much about I was a bit surprised at the last two splits...the whole run felt easy...it almost felt like I was this guy (yep that's Captain Planet).  Only one more short run this week then a couple of days off before DC. 

  On a random note...had the old fantasy baseball draft this year.  Last year we switched to an auction and after somewhat figuring out what people would do this year my strategy changed.  $260 can be spent through 21 rounds and we have 12 teams...last year Pujols went for about $70 and due to that the other top tier guys went for around the same...this year I realized I just couldn't stay back and watch these guys get taken even at these prices (my other strategy was to always nominate Philly players as we have about 5 guys in the league that are from Philly and overbid on these guys).

    Anyways, the 2nd player nominated in the draft was Miguel Cabrera...assuming he would go into the $60s I kept bidding until all of that stopped at $57...going one going twice and sold.  The 5th player nominated Albert Pujols I kept bidding on as I was not going to allow someone to get Pujols for less then $57...the bidding stopped at $54 and I now had two 1B and I had just spent over 40% of my total budget on two players...about 10 players later Justin Upton came up and my $40 bid was not challenged (yikes already spent about 60%) at this point I was really ready to curb my spending, when 15 picks later Evan Longoria came up for bidding (I've never drafted him but felt intrigued and I hadn't bid on anyone in a long time...so at $42 I got him..so now we are at about 75% of my total budget spent...so no bidding until about 100 players later...overall though the draft didn't end as badly as you would think and initial projections show a 2nd place finish...although those are always wrong.