August 8, 2012
Yes, you now have that old Wall Flowers song stuck in your head don’t
you?! Yeah, it’s stuck in mine…not even because I heard it but because
this seemed like an appropriate title for the moment.
After running ET, I’m still a bit sore…and it’s Wednesday. I even
took Monday off to relax and catch up on sleep and missed beer drinking
opportunities. I tried to climb out of bed to run yesterday. It just
didn’t work out. I thought I’d come home and at least walk a few
minutes on the treadmill. That didn’t work out either. Beer won. Hey,
I had to numb my thighs somehow.
I finally made it out the door at 4:20 am and got to running. I
bought this spiffy head light (I know the appropriate term is lamp, but I
like making myself into a vehicle). Today was the first day I wore the
head light without a hat. First, it’s MUCH more comfortable with a
hat. Lesson number one, learned. Second, it is rather blinding without
the hat because aiming it down to see whats on the ground in front of
you lights up your face like you’re telling a scary story around a camp
fire from when you were a kid. Number two, got it. I saw more without
the light. I even tried the red lights (yes, I’m high tech like that),
but I was still blind. It appears to be staying darker longer these
days…I swear just last week I could see daylight by the time I got home
at 5 am, but not today. It was still really dark. However, I
eventually gave up and took the stupid thing off my head.
Prior to taking off my head light, I realized
motorcycle/scooter/moped people are the most annoying people to cross
paths with when running. Seriously! Only 2 wheeled vehicles get close
enough to me to figure out what the bobbing light is in the world of
darkness. They have a WHOLE lane in the road! Wouldn’t you want to move
away from the unknown light just in case it’s a drunk person on a
motorcycle something or other? How do you think they would like it if I
swerved my car in their general direction just to see the foreign light
better?! I went out in day glow yellow with a head lamp that shined
down the front of me and these jerkfaces are driving so close to me I’m
in the weeds…that I can’t see because I’m blinded by my own light. It
was a scooter this morning. I think I’ve seen him before. I think I
might start placing large branches on the side of the road to randomly
throw out to unsuspecting motorists who get too close. That just gave
me a great mental image
I survived my run this morning- obviously…but I’m going to start
retaliating against these crap drivers. I just need a plan…to take over
the world!
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