Its been a busy rest week

I spent this past week at cub scout camp with my son. Lots of scoutly fun. I didn’t run at all (did you know there’s no running allowed at scout camp?) but did more walking than you could imagine. I’d say I walked about 5 miles a day. And I really, really tried to go easy on my calf while its is healing, but they played capture the flag and adults were forced to play.

Two things I discovered while playing capture the flag: 1) I am incredibly slow, and 2) everyone else is faster than me. Sigh.

After 4 days of not showering I was glad to get home again. There are showers there but its a pain to go use them. Easier just to use extra deodorant.

I ran about 7 miles this morning. Incredibly hot again. I had my water soaked hat and brought my fuel belt, but the humidity really messed me up. My lungs and heart were good to go, but my calf was still sore and kinda shaky. I took it very slow and walked if my calf began to feel wobbly or was losing control. I remember this from last week when I pushed too hard too soon. So I cut it short at 7 and let things rest a bit. I will pick up more mileage this week and mix it with crosstraining.

I finished Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Its a monstrously long book. Without giving much away, I will say I found it disappointing. I like The Half-Blood Prince much, much more.

Stop reading this if you haven’t finished the book. There are no spoilers, but there are generalities that may disrupt your enjoyment of the book. Proceed at your own risk.

The author spent about 80% of the book with a long drawn out and detailed account of events and circumstances and discoveries by the characters. But then, it was almost like she got to the last 20% and said “Oh no! I have to get this published!” And then proceeded to wrap up everything that still needed to be figured out/discovered/told to the reader, in two small scenes that are in the last 20% of the book. It reminded me of a Scooby-Doo ending where all the pieces come together as Velma literally explains it all to the viewer at the end, only Rowling did it with characters talking to each other.

Even if you haven’t read the book, you know how this is all going to turn out. You know what the “big” scene is going to be at the end. The two questions are: how will the author bring us there, and what will she reveal along the way? My opinion is, she totally blew it. She spent so much time with the first 4/5 of the book, with long, endless detail about the plot (with very few pertinent details), and then dumped everything in our laps at the end. If that was her ultimate intention, she could have done it in the first chapter and just finished right there.

Oh and there’s an epilogue. Stupid. This totally ruined the book for me. It was so trite and campy that it practically dripped of a Disney-ified sequel/spin-off. You heard it here first, this will drag on forever until everyone wants to yell avada kedavra at J. K. Rowling.

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