One great aspect of downtown apartment living is the extremely low threshold for civic participation. This morning I woke up to people making sounds of encouragement. This is a picture of what I could see from my living room window.So I took a shower, made myself an iced soy mocha, grabbed my camera, and went down to get a closer view. Does anybody recognize any of the runners? There are one or two people for whom one of these pictures might make a nice keepsake.
Despite a ban on iPods this year, there was a constant stream of people sporting earbuds. Fortunately, as the article states, "those who are photographed wearing earbuds won't be disqualified."
I was surprised that a couple of runners (Lana McCracken and Melissa Landis) spotted me on the sidelines and said hi. Unfortunately, neither my camera nor my will to make encouraging noise were at-the-ready. Congratulations, you two, on getting out there and doing it! Did you finish?
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What, you mean you don't wake every morning to people making sounds of encouragement?? ;-)
The other runner was one Miz Meleeska. She said she saw you looking either preoccupied or dejected or both ...
I was, in fact preoccupied by thoughts of how long it would take my hangover to to dissipate. Very perceptive of her to pick up on that as she zoomed by at 80mph. :-)
Any reference to running which includes both a reference to me and a descriptor like "zoom" is the high point of my day! My actual pace resembles Lee Majors in the Million Dollar Man sans the slow motion camera and that creepy seventies sound cue.
Good to have seen you, pohl! I hope you'll join us if and when we get book club up and running again.
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