arc of time

my headphones broke the other day. and who knows when i will get around to getting a new pair. while this is bad for my solo running and for my attempts to avoid the music coming from the headphones of others it does mean good things for this blog in that i will be listening more attentively to what is going on around me, providing, for sure, more blog and twitter material.

today was a perfect example. i noticed him at lindbergh. big stocky dude standing at the door of the train righ next to me. as the door opened he started yelling to someone on the platform.

“you think you s&^t don’t stank” and the like. loud too. loud i am assuming because he had headphones on himself. i figured he was involved in some form of lover’s quarrel taking place with someone on the platform at lindbergh because he continued to yell about this woman to everyone on the train all the way to buckhead.

and then at buckhead he started yellng at another woman. “you so fine,” “why you ignorin’ me” etc. and i realized he was simply yelling his affection at every attractive (in his mind) woman he saw and then expressing his displeasure to the rest of the train when they ignored him.

on this continued as we rumbled northbound; medical center, dunwoody, sandy springs, north springs. i had a chuckle as i thought to myself “how funny if he gets on the #140.” and sure enough…

he continued his super loud yelling, directing some of it at the driver all the way to the mansell park-and-ride. i personally am going with the wake-and-bake theory. it’s the one that fits occams razor the best.

like i said, all that for $1.75.

total monthly mileage – 68.20
# of runs – 15
longest run – 8.03
cumulative mcm training miles – 152.51
shoes: brooks glycerin 6’s
total shoe miles – 173.92

did this month’s long run along the beaches of aruba and it was amazing. total number of runs are down because all the crazy travel caused me to end up missing a few midweeks runs this month.

don’t forget to donate to the cause on my team in training page.

this weekend was intense. i stayed up much later than usual, owing to a conference taking place in town that i helped coordinate, and i ended up running three miles twice on saturday.

the first one was a downtown jaunt that i led for people at the conference who apparently decided getting up at 7 am and running was more fun that what everyone else was doing, which was either smoking some cigarettes or sleeping. then i bolted off to the river for my three mile team in training group training session.

i’m running good, considering how much i struggle initially with humidity and the grass pollen. i think this is going to be a strong season for sure. the trick will be reminding myself that starting at the bottom and building a base form scratch, even if i am in marathon shape, which i am, is a good thing, and not pushing the mileage or the speed too much.

we’ll see.

either way the six miles this weekend didn’t kill me, which we will take as a positive sign.

don’t forget to donate a dollar or two to my effort, which you can do right here.

you keep rockin’ and i will keep running.