on the highway to heavy
I ran this morning, but I shouldn’t have. I should have stuck to my guns (where does that expression come from?) and taken a full 10 days off after my goal race. Harry Wilson once advised me at the end of the year to take a month-long break from running. “Get so fat,” he said, “you can’t fit into your britches.”
6 days just isn’t enough time to get all that fat. I’m working on it though. So is my teammate, Kelly. She phoned me from the new French pastry shop in Hillsborough, NC to leave this message on my machine: “I’m on the highway to heavy.”
Me, too, Kelly!
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Ten days or a month off? I’d have missed out on several PRs and and on racing you in the Gallop ‘n Gorge 8K. I twice ran a 10K PR 10 days after a 35-mile race (my goal race at the time). Maybe if I train for another ultra I’ll regain some 10K speed.
Unless I’m wide awake enough to remember which country I am in, I pronounce the “h” in herb.
I went to a high school where caning was (and maybe even still is) allowed. It wasn’t usually “public”, though I do recall the last time I was a victim was in view of the rest of the phys ed class. It must have been effective because that was the last phys ed class I ever had.
Comment by Dave C. — 8/12/2006 @ 2:07 pm