My favorite holiday, Thanksgiving. A race with 1,000 of my closest friends, daughters all home, two boyfriends visiting from afar, food for twenty though there are only six of us for dinner, electrical and computer issues and swine flu. Can it get any better than this?
Jan, who hasn't run in four weeks due to achilles tendinitis, throws off her body cast and runs sub-9 minute miles to try and secure a top 5 RROY spot. We think she missed it by 3 points for the season. Rats. But she did finish in the top 3 in her age group!
The 10k was my longest run of the month, due to some lingering hamstring issues, but I managed to squeeze by fellow Sal's runner Rick Merritt, who hadn't run in 2 weeks, for a solid 48 minute finish, only 4 minutes slower than last year (insert sarcasm here). Of course Rick, new head coach of the soon to be state champion Byron-Bergen basketball team was wearing fifteen pounds of cotton, Chuck Taylor high top sneakers from high school and dribbling a basketball with each hand the entire course, but a win is a win. We Sals people count them any way we can.
Oh, and then there was the youngster, Jen Katz, the one who told me during the race, "I'm a bit tired from the marathon I ran four days ago, see ya!" Yes, she beat me by at least a minute.
Reportedly Lou, in training to race Boit in the 100 yard dash, hit Mike W with a turkey leg as the gun went off so he could take the coveted 1 mile split honors, a scintillating 6:23! Mike, savoring the turkey for 3 miles, then sped up and ended up the top Sal's runner for the day and secured a top five RROY spot.
Eileen imsofantasticallyfast W ran an awesome time and garnered at top 5 RROY spot, as well as a 3rd place RWG placing.
The computer issues? Well, the boyfriends, who are electrical and computer geniuses, have cleaned up my hard drive, taught me how to download music, erased all my porn (damn) and made a machine I think is an original PC from Bill Gates garage days run a lot faster.
The swine flu victim seems to be Stacy, who traveled from Portland to be with us and brought along the disease. Don't get it. If you can get a vaccine, do it.
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Friday, November 27, 2009
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
Thoughts on Life
1. Is it really wrong to practice my freestyle swim stroke when walking around the library at work?
2. We aren't supposed to have a lot of contact with people due to the swine flu. My entire day is spent taking books, dvd's, handing out a bathroom key (yucky) and people breathing/sneezing/coughing on me at the Reference desk. Guess I should retire?
3. Why did New York citizens spend 1.5 billion dollars on Yankee stadium, yet the outfield walls are in too close and one of the tunnels to the field help push the balls further, thus increasing home runs.
Too bad this doesn't seem to help the home team win.
4. Why am I watching more baseball on tv than Lou or Mike, and it's always the Yankees, and they seem to be losing a lot?
5. I really don't like biking into the wind, downhill, and having to pedal just as hard as going up a hill. This doesn't seem fair.
6. We are supposed to drink 8 glasses of water a day, plus more fluids to offset dehydration from exercise. But if I pee many times a day (which I do), then the tv commercials tell me I need a drug because my friends will leave me behind in the bathroom and continue having fun without me. This makes me sad.
Well, it would make me sad, but most of my friends are long-distance athletes and always drinking and peeing. Sometimes they even find a tree or bush. We have a code; "Leave no pee-er behind".
Who needs drugs with friends like that?
7. Television also tells me I need a drug because I get up at night to pee. Yet I'm supposed to drink all these fluids that have a tendency to make me pee. This is quite a conundrum. If I can't pee so much during the day, I can't pee at night, when exactly am I supposed to relieve myself?
I think the stop-pee drug makers and the bottled water distributors are in business together or it's a government conspiracy.
8. Here's a joke. Two women walk into a bike store. Let's call them Jan and Eileen and the bike store can be named Full Moon Vista.
Jan and Eileen walk into Full Moon Vista during a Women's Only Sales Event. Credit cards in hands, husbands at home, no kids. Jan and Eileen get to ride bikes costing double or triple what they now own. Hmmm. The ladies like the bikes, a lot, what a surprise, the bikes weigh about the same as a chocolate cupcake with vanilla icing. They want to buy the bikes. There is the good angel on their left shoulder, the devil on the right shoulder. What should they do? Hmmm.
Well, we really don't know what they are going to do, time will tell. Where's the punchline? I forgot to write one because this is no joke. Full Moon Vista knows how to market.
2. We aren't supposed to have a lot of contact with people due to the swine flu. My entire day is spent taking books, dvd's, handing out a bathroom key (yucky) and people breathing/sneezing/coughing on me at the Reference desk. Guess I should retire?
3. Why did New York citizens spend 1.5 billion dollars on Yankee stadium, yet the outfield walls are in too close and one of the tunnels to the field help push the balls further, thus increasing home runs.
Too bad this doesn't seem to help the home team win.
4. Why am I watching more baseball on tv than Lou or Mike, and it's always the Yankees, and they seem to be losing a lot?
5. I really don't like biking into the wind, downhill, and having to pedal just as hard as going up a hill. This doesn't seem fair.
6. We are supposed to drink 8 glasses of water a day, plus more fluids to offset dehydration from exercise. But if I pee many times a day (which I do), then the tv commercials tell me I need a drug because my friends will leave me behind in the bathroom and continue having fun without me. This makes me sad.
Well, it would make me sad, but most of my friends are long-distance athletes and always drinking and peeing. Sometimes they even find a tree or bush. We have a code; "Leave no pee-er behind".
Who needs drugs with friends like that?
7. Television also tells me I need a drug because I get up at night to pee. Yet I'm supposed to drink all these fluids that have a tendency to make me pee. This is quite a conundrum. If I can't pee so much during the day, I can't pee at night, when exactly am I supposed to relieve myself?
I think the stop-pee drug makers and the bottled water distributors are in business together or it's a government conspiracy.
8. Here's a joke. Two women walk into a bike store. Let's call them Jan and Eileen and the bike store can be named Full Moon Vista.
Jan and Eileen walk into Full Moon Vista during a Women's Only Sales Event. Credit cards in hands, husbands at home, no kids. Jan and Eileen get to ride bikes costing double or triple what they now own. Hmmm. The ladies like the bikes, a lot, what a surprise, the bikes weigh about the same as a chocolate cupcake with vanilla icing. They want to buy the bikes. There is the good angel on their left shoulder, the devil on the right shoulder. What should they do? Hmmm.
Well, we really don't know what they are going to do, time will tell. Where's the punchline? I forgot to write one because this is no joke. Full Moon Vista knows how to market.
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