Deep Thoughts
You know the best thing about writing this blog? The whole time I’m running all I can think about is what I’m going to post to the blog when I get home. It’s great - makes the time fly by!
While I was running tonight, I decided that I was going to write about thinking about what to write in my blog. It was beautiful out, low 40s, clear, no wind, a little damp, and tons of men out running. Hellllo spandex. Ok, back on track. I ran 6.5 miles and I felt really great the whole time. From what I can recall, these were all of the items that made my so-called ‘consideration list’ as blog topics tonight (or, if you’re lucky, perhaps in the future):
1. men in spandex (oops, check!)
2. how much I absolutely love to run. I have said this before, but on a good night (or day), I often think to myself, ‘there’s absolutely nothing I’d rather be doing right now than this.’ And I swear to you, it’s true.
3. my most incredible experience with American Express Purchase Protection today. Actually, so amazing I can’t keep it in - did you know they cover your purchases for 90 days should they be lost, stolen, broken or damaged? I got a full refund for my recently purchased iPhone because I dropped it and cracked the screen just 4 weeks after buying it. Incredible. I sent out a mass email to my whole family last night in my state of disbelief and I think they all thought it was spam due to my ‘can’t believe it’s butter’-like tone. But seriously, amazing.
4. not drinking for 4 days and what an incredible affect it has on my body and how I feel when running. Brilliant.
5. all of the things I’m going to cook, bake, frost, and eat next week.
6. did you know Paula Dean cuts up chunks of butter and puts it in her hamburgers before she cooks them?
7. I’m pretty sure some people don’t consider butter to be a dairy product and, therefore, I can eat as much of it as I want. Oooh, riiight, that was Paula Dean who told me that…
8. some people have the strangest running ‘strides’- you have the lumberjack, the tippity-tap, the long jumper, the high jumper, the lobster, the crab, the sloth, the corncob-up-my-butt (not MY butt..), the thumper, the smooth rider, the straight-up/stick-straight, the hunched over, and then, of course, the ‘oh my, that looks painful’
9. geez, I wonder how someone would qualify my stride?
10. god, even scarier, I wonder what the heck I look like from behind…do you think they have a name for that?
11. shadows and how much they suck when you’re wearing spandex pants. To be continued…
