10/28/09
Hello my little peeps.. this getting older stuff is rough.. sigh... so I dress in a normal sweater and pants to come to work.. you know .. normal clothes... and well I guess I have a heat flash?.... I instantly become 1000 degrees, like someone was holding a blow torch to my body.. like I was being boiled alive in my own clothes.. so now I'm screaming to get out of my sweater …. and pleading with my co worker to give me the shirt off their back.. and thankfully they have an extra shirt - go figure - in their desk.. (brand new)…whew....so I bring up this dilemma to my two "buddies" here and work… and this is what is said,
“You are insane. Maybe if you left a tiny bit of room for air to pass between your clothes and your skin you wouldn't overheat? "
Just call me the human torch..
10/31/09 - Saturday
It is time to play.. this is the time of year that I don’t take any of my racing too seriously and just sign up for a whole bunch of crap and run it… with no direction or rhyme or reason… so like I said.. its play time..
So on Halloween I signed up for the Hatboro Skeleton Skurry 5K.. I debated that morning on if I wanted to run it in costume or not.. and thought it would be sacrilegious if I DIDN’T wear a costume since it was actually ON Halloween.. So I hemmed and hawed a
bout what to wear since I had been too busy to actually make anything .. then I remember I did make the underdog costume last year that I had used at the McGuires Mud run.. so up in the attic I go.. sifting through boxes and viola.. find it and on it goes..It was another wet, damp, dreary morning.. quite typical for Northeastern weather for the end of October ..
I was kinda proud of myself that I didn’t pick a costume that was hot with all fur and stuff like last years Viking costume.. you know since I was having heat issues... so I got my picture taken with Elvis… got to run next to the corn again....got to beat a cave girl.. and clocked one of my best 5K times 23:37.. alas didn’t place… too many crazy old people running.. but did win a costume award!!!... VICTORY!!
11/7/09 - Saturday
See its really not me… not always.. Joe.. took his friend Jim mountain biking up at Marsh Creek on Saturday… and well to make a long story short.. Joe writes this posting on facebook….
“We are back at the ambulance...er I mean truck; time to go evacuate a broken Standish (his friend)…. damn trees; hate when they jump in front of you like that. I'm not a very good story teller, but I can tell you this: I heard a thump, and then the most blood curdling scream ever outside a movie. When I turned around and ran back up the hill Standish was on his back down the slope; his bike was a twisted mess up the slope, and there was a tree in between the two. I'm going to say because he feels like he's going to puke every time he moves his arm, that he broke his collar bone.”
Later communication provided that his friend is only bent not broken… and will be out of commission for a couple of weeks so then Joe can drag him back out through the woods again…
SO even with all this drama we still made it to the family Halloween birthday party …although the costume contest was fixed.. and my family is completely evil.. handing me the costume award.. me getting all excited.. then snatching it away saying NOPE YOU DIDN’T WIN… whatever…
11/8/09 - Sunday
BECAUSE we do NOT know how to relax… on Sunday, Joe and I headed to Bear Creek to run the 10K trail race (6.2 miles)…this time we were hoping to not have the subsequent circus act and ambulance ride...I mean the bees are all sleeping now... right?
Yeah.. except when there is an unexpected “heat wave”… I swear I almost made him get back in the truck and head home prior to the race when just standing outside our vehicle we were accosted by a bee.. WTF!
But oh no Joe said he had to do this.. and so off we go.. I can only say that Joe is a truly gifted trail runner.. we were together for what, the first half mile, then he just leapt like a mountain goat up those hills and away from me… the day was not without incident… there was a couple falls with some blood.. and ankle twists..and I almost kissed a tree.. but other than that.. fun was had… and he completed the race on his own accord!... Joe actually placed fairly high up in the field.. placing 34 out of 142 runners… very nice.
... so clean up .. head to Mom’s birthday dinner... and then back home to collapse..no wonder I dont have time to write..
