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Stephen’s “road” to the Half Marathon

As you all know, Tim Hector, Sean and I ran the 1/2 marathon this weekend in Ottawa. The first three did it under 2 hrs and well I finished in 2 hrs 39 minutes. But that not what I want to tell you about. Let me tell the true story of the journey to the Capitol

We left late Thursday, and headed West. Like all good pilgrims we had packed the van with food and supplies. Plus Hector brought along a box, tightly sealed ready to be mailed. The question the other occupants had was why wait to mail it in Montreal. It looked suspicious and small white smoke floated in the air after you tapped. Tim became suspicious that he was going to meet another of Hector’s South American friends in another garage.

Pink became the colour of choice for the Van’s occupants. As we stopped at many gas stations of Hector’s choosing we began to discover a reoccurring theme. Simply put, one of us opened the door and Hector bolted towards the Belt and hat rack and started arranging the stock. Imagine being the gas attendant and seeing a Hugh guy holding the door while a foreigner ran to the belt rack followed by two confused individuals.

The story goes on but here are some quotable sayings from the trip

Tim to hector

No Hector that’s not an Immigration Station it’s a migration station

Sports Check Sale Clerk to the group after looking at us

Have you “trained : for the run…pause really

Runner to Steve at the 15 km mark Sunday after running behind him for a while and then passing him

How much do you weight?

I nearly stopped right there.

At another Sports Store

Time and I were looking at running clothes and the Clerk was explaining how the garment worked in the wind. He stopped and looked at me and said

“t does not work if your standing still” then in an attempt to dig himself out of the hole he dug he quickly said to me, ” I had an uncle who runs in Marathon’s in the Clydesdale division”.

I did not buy the item and We went home after that

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Best Excuse Yet

Sleepy season was a good one.  You get over tired . . . don’t hear the alarm . . . early morning appointment.  It’s a bio-rhtyhmic thing.  As most of you know, I even tried sleeping with an Iron Man watch hanging out of my mouth so that I wouldn’t miss the alarm.  (Absolutely true!  Ask the Tin Man or Tigger)  They questioned me on it, over coffee, one morning.  My response was stupid by any standard.  ”Oh, don’t try to tell me that you guys have never done that!”  Needless to say, this was a mistake and I have never heard the end of it.  But that’s the nature of the group.  So now I have the best excuse yet.  I had laser surgery and a “cryo” procedure on two retinal tears in my right eye.  The doctor tells me that I can’t run for at least a month.  So I have been sleeping in . . . coffee only twice  this past week.  Now I know that my friends are incredibly concerned for my well-being but I also know that sooner or later a runner has to face the music and I have to confess that I am not all that excited about the possibility.  I did compile a list . . . top ten good things about not being able to see that well.  Let me share it with you:

 

1. No more bad-hair days.
2. Justification for a bigger, big-screen TV.
3. You get to ignore people that you don’t like.  You can walk right past them and never speak.
4. You get to ignore the offering plate in church.
5. No more ugly people.
6. No more beautiful people.
7. You get to see things that other people can’t see.
8. You get to “not see” things that other people see.
9. Easier to resist sexual temptation.
10. The Word is a “light” unto my path and a “lamp” unto my feet.

Now I want you to know that I will be back, slower than ever, sometime in September if the good Lord is willing.  I miss you guys like crazy.

 

Pumba