blnchflr: Running (running)
practice being a zebra ([personal profile] blnchflr) wrote in [community profile] runners2013-07-30 08:10 am
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How goes it? Awesomely or not so much?

Bonus: best running experience this summer (winter if you're on the southern hemisphere)?
ilanarama: me, The Other Half, Moab UT 2009 (marathon)

[personal profile] ilanarama 2013-07-31 01:09 pm (UTC)(link)
Awesomely!

Best running experience: I ran down to the coffee shop where our running club meets on Saturday mornings to do the group run - I hadn't been in a couple of years, but I thought it might be fun. Well, after about half a mile it turned out EVERYONE was doing walk breaks, and I didn't want to, so I turned around to head home and pick up my mp3 player so I could listen to my audiobook, and along the way a guy hailed me and said that he had shown up too late for the running club but he'd seen me veer off when everyone started walking, and if I was doing a longish run could he come with me?

It turned out that he lives in Chicago but was down here visiting his daughter. We had a great run together, saw a bunch of deer along the path including a group of young bucks and a doe with what must have been a fairly recently newborn fawn, all tiny and covered in spots.