Just for the heck of it.
This is a little different. I come to this post today with nothing particular to say. Just a desire to make a post. Let’s see what comes out. For some reason “blog.com” where this site is parked seemed to be down for some time. Seemed like a couple of months. I thought this blog was toast. Then I discovered it was back.
So…..content. Let’s see. Heather’s over on the couch watching tube. We’re gearing up for a big run tomorrow. Heather is supposed to run fourteen miles. Wowee. I still don’t know how far I am going to go. We’re training for the “Fifth Third Bank Riverbank Run” a popular event in Grand Rapids every spring. And yes….I did say Fifth Third Bank. Did that catch anyone’s attention? Whose idea was it to name a bank “Fifth Third Bank”? Which one is it? The fifth? The third? Is it five thirds? We’re still wondering. So it is a 25 K. That’s 15.5 miles. A pretty good hoof. Last year I was under the impression that it was 15. I can’t describe the disappointment I felt when i got to the 15 mile sign only to learn i “only had a half mile to go”! (I can still picture the very vocal onlookers trying to encourage me with that.)
That brings me back to some memories from running the Chicago Marathon a couple years (and pounds) back. I was astonished at the number of people with cowbells cheering on us runners. It was kind of fun for the first eight or nine miles. Then it started getting really old. Amazingly the crowd never really did thin out for the whole marathon. There was always a yelling, screaming crowd (louder at certain points, and more tame at others)…but around just about every corner were people with cowbells. Then somewhere around the halfway point, a guy passed me who had something printed on the back of his shirt “I need some more cowbell”. I thought that was funny. (and yes I have seen the saturday night live skit). It was around the same time some guy pulled up next to me without shoes on. I was flabergasted! No shoes! He had a shirt on that said “Shoeless Rick” or something with a website. And it seemed like he had a fan base as we snaked through the streets of Chicago. And amazingly he had a smile on his face. Also that very day in the same race was my good friend Brad. He finished at 3:22. Which is pretty amazing. Almost qualifying for Boston. Since then he has gone on to break three hours, and last November at Chicago he ran a 2:46. Woah! He is one motivated dude. So he runs in the Boston Marathon…I think next weekend. And gets married in several weeks. How exciting.
Boy, I really am at a loss as for what else to say. I apologize to anyone who doesn’t care about running who read this. Or maybe I should just say I apologize to anyone who read this! I hope you are enjoying spring. Michigan has given me a deep appreciation of spring! We rejoice in 50 degree days around here. Im going to hang it up for the night. Thanks for stopping bye!
~~~~~~~~~~~~~AN UPDATE TO THIS ENTRY~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
This is an edit to this post, added in November 08….I read this entry and realized this was the day before we found out Heather is pregnant. Heather never ran that fourteen miles….we did a pregnancy test “just to make sure” that she wasn’t pregnant…..because we thought fourteen miles would be kind of rough on a fetus, in the minute chance that there was one in there. Well, the rest is history!
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