Archive for July 30th, 2008

What a great day! You’d think I was bi-polar with how good I’m feeling.

Today was my mid-long 12. I did my usual 9 plus 1.5 times what I’ll now refer to as the Mile Hill. The biggest incline is the first half of the hill anyway, so it was a really good workout. But that’s not the event.

The event occurred as I was coming back towards home, I saw this tiny figure in the distance – a woman, oh so familiar…the walker I’ve referred to in the past, here and here. But today, even though she was quite far away, I could tell something was markedly different. Gone was the wide determined side-to-side armswing, I couldn’t believe it, could it be?

She was running! I’m telling you, I’ve passed this woman about 3 times a week since I started running, so this was an event all right. I lifted up my sunglasses and literally did this and gave her the happiest thumbs up I’ve ever given. She downright bubbled back, it was so fucking cool.

Now, I should say that I have nothing at all against walkers, on the contrary, physical activity in any form is fabulous and I would never try and talk anyone into running that didn’t want to. A year of divemastering was enough to know that there are some things people should never be talked into, you either feel it or you don’t and running is one of them. So anyway, I’m making a huge deal out of basically nothing, but it was something to me, like seeing a distant friend finally join my club. Gee, maybe I am bi-polar.

Other than that, Nick had the hardest day on his bike trip yesterday, they did 78 miles and climbed 8000 feet! The poor guy was absolutely beat when he called last night, and today he’s got 60, but he sounded much better this morning. Cheers to my honey! For a guy in his late 50′s (and one that got stents put in last year), he’s turned into quite the physically fit freak. Between the two of us, I’m wondering if there’s something in the water…

Continuing on my faux mania-driven morning, someone on the RW shoe forum posted this most excellent video from Mizuno last night, it’s GREAT! Watch it till the end, so cool.

I think that covers everything I wanted to blab about today. It’ll be another scorcher, so drink heartily and heavily. Have some water, too. Later, kids.