We have this mistaken idea that running on the beach will be so much fun.. Yipee, the beautiful water, the sun... It'll be great!
The sun, my least favorite star (cept for maybe Paris Hilton), oh it's there. You probably noticed that there are very few trees on Florida's beaches, so, not much shade.
The sand, now there's a nice Sunday surprise, it looks like it will be fun, but turns out, not so much. It gets in your shoes, it get's in your socks, it follows you like polonium-210. It sinks when you run in it.
The sights, ok, there's some water, ok, there's some water, squish ok, I stepped on a dead fish looking at the water... ok, there is a condo, there is a condo, there is a condo. Where are all the beautiful people that I am supposed to see at the beach, oh, they come out when it's sunny, when the lack of trees will roast you like so many marshmallows at a campfire, oh wait, there is some water, ok, there is another condo.
Ok, I'll just run to that pier up there and turn around. Ok, when am I going to get to that pier, it's so darn flat, it looks like it's just ahead. Oh, hey, if I count the condos between the pier and me, let's see, there's one, two, three, four, five, six, seventeen, eighteen, twenty-nine, thirty-four, and now I'm turning around.
Beach was fun, so darn good to be home, Croom tomorrow!
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oy, running on a beach, or a prairie ... distance is a bitch.
Hey, check it out, going out to see a rockin local band tonight (www.myspace.com/kinetixmusic) and then heading over to the famed Red Rocks to see the famed Fray on Monday ...
rockin' man.
(0h, on Sunday, I'll be runnin' in the Rockies, which is nice ... prolly low '70s, some shaded, tree-lined trails ... prolly see some deer ... say, you have a good run, too. :-) ...
Fortunately, due to our 6 AM start (got to sleep in until 4 AM) it was only 85 with 100% humidity... at the start of our Croom run. What's up with Florida, the median age and the August low temp both hover around 80 (sadly that isn't a joke, the low today was 80, they just aint right.) However, while the Rockies are beautiful, they can't really match Croom Mountain, I'm sure.
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