Sunday was a little bit of a
longer run for me for the time being so yesterday I decided I’d play it safe running closer
to home and through the woods with my new little 4 legged friend “Dakota”. However, we now call him “Smokes” due to his
color and yes I’m well aware of the lack in thinking about what people will
think of us because we named our dog “Smokes” J Thankfully the trail is well marked and I’m
familiar with so I didn’t get lost at any point.
Speaking
of getting lost, it wouldn’t be the first time (and I’m sure by no means last)
but sometimes getting lost is all the fun in it. In my younger days (yes I’m referring to myself as getting old) when
I was the only girl on the whole cross country team we were running at Belpre
(OH)…our team was running a little late getting to the course on time for the
girls race and I didn’t have much time to warm up. I was always nervous enough as it was and dad
kept reassuring me “Just follow the 4-wheeler….it will be fine”. Well just like every athlete should do… they
listened to their “coach”…… Well thanks “dad”….I followed the 4-wheeler just
like you said and it went the wrong way…
Now most might think “Big Deal”… just turn around and go back….. Well… I didn’t realize we were going the
wrong way and we weren’t in a place of the course for many spectators to yell
at you to tell you either. Therefore, I
continued to go the wrong way as well as the whole entire group of runners
behind me. So now we have this race
completely off course with everyone running the wrong way and they had to stop
the race a little after a mile into it…all to postpone the race till after the
boys ran and the girls recovered enough to restart the race. You can rest assured I spend the awards ceremony
hiding behind my dad knowing well enough since I was the only girl in a “Ritchie
County” uniform I had nobody else to even pretend or confuse the crowd with questioning
which girl it was that did that today. So, for the day, I’m sure I was “THAT GIRL”
There
are many more other “lost” stories (Doddridge County Race….in the middle of
hundreds of acres in a State Park Forest at Virginia Tech…miles upon miles away
from where I was supposed to be "?" State Park while visiting Old Dominion) but I’ll
save them for another day J I did run about 30 minutes today, with a few breaks
of waiting for “Smokes” to drop sticks that were 4 times his size thinking he
needed to bring them along with us.
A Few pictures of the trail and my running partner
You have a gorgeous running partner. :) I'm sure he'll take very good care of you when you're out in the middle of nowhere.
ReplyDeleteThanks so much for your help on teaching me how to get this blog together :) I really am lucky to have gotten the chance to throw myself into your and Brie's life :)
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