I saw these 3 signs while running today. Thought I’d share some laughs.
Fat Man’s Dream, Dogs N Cream
Hurl… heh heh… Watch out runners, it’s hurl rocks park… hurling rocks… ok, I’ll stop now.
What a pessimistic sign!
Which sign is your favorite?
Well, I guess last weekend was exciting enough to have a very lame week of running.
After a race, I like to give my 31-year-old-self at least 2 days to recover. Since I “raced” Friday and again on Sunday, I knew Monday and Tuesday would definitely be easy days. On Monday, I felt surprisingly good. It was one of those days I wanted to run forever! Those days always seem to coincide with the days I am on the biggest time-crunch of the week. I took what I could get and completed a few glorious miles.
On Tuesday I was reflecting on 9/11/01 and totally zoned out most of my easy paced run. With 3 miles to go, I found myself within 10 feet of a large buck. I kept yelling “go buck”! It was not as much fun as the day I ran into 2 bucks on the trail and yelled “Go Bucks!”, but it did help lighten my mood.
Go Bucks! A little Ohio State humor for you. Pic taken during cross country 2001. Look, I’m Pippi Longstocking!
Wednesday was supposed to be a workout. I set my alarm for VERY early. My daughter woke up 10 minutes before that so I was on child duty. I decided to do the workout that night when Jeff was home from work. Unfortunately, I ate something that didn’t agree with my stomach so Wednesday turned into another easy run.
Thursday was going to be a workout for sure. I set the alarm early again, and my little lady was up early AGAIN! So, a medium length trail run with the stroller took the place of speed.
Playtime on the trail post-run.
Currie and I are headed to the beach on Sunday morning so I’m doing my long run on Saturday. I figured today might as well be another easy run then I’ll hit the long run hard with a few quality miles mixed in tomorrow. During my easy miles today, I added 7×100 meter strides on the track. I had to remind my legs they were fast before tomorrow’s run!
What do I do when I am forced to run easy when I planned to do speed? Run with my phone and hope to see something entertaining! Here are a few things I saw.
Second road sign prank on this corner within the past 6 months.
This tree is along my every day running route. It gets dressed up according to holidays, seasons, etc. Here the tree is sporting the “end of summer” look.
This is the tree back in the spring. It likes to dress-down too. Sometimes, all you need is an umbrella.
That was my week of running! I was trying to find a race for tomorrow (Saturday) before we leave for vacation, but I couldn’t find anything too exciting so I’m sitting this weekend out of the racing scene.
What’s going on in your running world this weekend? Have you ever seen a fancied-up tree?
Two events have happened in the past week that brought pythons to the front of my mind. First, I read that a woman made a very realistic looking python cake for her 6-year-old daughter’s birthday party. Um, no thank you. Unrelated in all ways except in the category of “cake-I-wouldn’t-eat-even-though-I-love-cake” is this picture of the cake my brother-in-law had at his 30th birthday party. Um, definitely no thank you.
Brother-in-law’s “poop” cake (I think they use another not-so-nice-term), complete with real toilet paper and fake flies.
Back to the pythons. I was running in the park where I run every day, pushing Currie along in the stroller, when I noticed bright red, orange and yellow signs everywhere. I figured they were warning us of upcoming construction or pesticide use and I ran right past. On the way back through I decided to stop and see what the sign said.
Oh, a 7ft python escaped? Hmm, how does that happen exactly? Wikipedia tells me that attacks on humans are rare. I guess we will continue running there for our last 1.5 weeks in Seattle! Afterall, there is a heat wave coming through and this park is a great place to find shade!
After reading the python signs, I did what every parent would do. I stopped and took of picture of me and Currie looking scared. I look more happy and weird and she looks peaceful. Oh well.
So while most of you have been enjoying Shark Week, I’m enjoying snake week.
Would you eat that python cake? Would you keep running through a park if you knew a python recently escaped? What’s the strangest animal you’ve encountered on a run?
I love to run in the morning, and do well with running at night, but lunchtime runs are rarely good for me. It’s my sleepiest time of the day and my hungriest time of the day. In the summer it can get really hot and humid and I just never feel right. (Listen to all this complaining!) However, today is a gorgeous day and I have my mother-in-law in town to watch my daughter so I was actually excited to go out for a 1pm run. It was a little warm, but not too bad and I had some coffee around 11am to give me energy I desperately needed since I’ve been battling a cold/cough that’s been keeping me awake at night. I got in a good 7.6 miles thanks to the coffee, my mother-in-law, and all the things I saw on my run. Here’s my #seenonmyrun list from today:
This is how I dressed for running while pregnant-covered up with maternity belt. (27 weeks, November 2009)
What’s your favorite time of the day to exercise? Least favorite? Do you have any tricks to get past it like coffee, nap, major pep talk? Did you see anything exciting on your run today?