Long runs and tractors

I was very tempted to leak out on my long run today. It was forecasted to be -7 and Friday's run in similar temperatures seemed down right nasty. I really didn't want to repeat it, especially for 1.45 hours. But I stuck it out. Mainly because I knew if I didn't I would get endless you-know-what from Mike. Of course, he rewarded me with the comment, "I hope more people start running the long runs soon". A not so subtle way of telling me that I was not good enough. It was ALMOST as bad as Christy's comment, "Wade is Way, WAY older than me". Note to readers, Wade is a year YOUNGER than me. AND she didn't seem a bit remorseful when I pointed this out to her!

And here I am rewarding Mike by fulfilling his request that I include in my post the video "She Thinks My Tractor's Sexy". For you non-spartans, this video is dedicated to the running love duo of Christy and Bryan. Bryan recently bought a SECOND tractor for his land. Apparently, his first tractor was somehow not good enough in the way that only a guy who loves his tractors can understand. His wife Christy is not one of those guys. He tried to pass it off as thinking of her..... now they would have his and hers tractors. Now, for those of you who are not Wisconsinites, let me be clear that it is NOT every female cheesehead's dream to have her own tractor. Yes, we might be the Dairy State, but that is only in the minds of male politicians. The women politicians have better things to spend their time on.

It is only in BRYAN's fantastical mind that Christy is thinking the following when she sees him when he is driving is tractor:

She thinks my tractor's sexy
It really turns her on
She's always starin' at me
While I'm chuggin' along
She likes the way it's pullin' while we're tillin' up the land
She's even kind of crazy 'bout my farmer's tan
She's the only one who really understands what gets me
She thinks my tractor's sexy.

I think Christy's response would be "Oh Boy!" and not in a supportive way!

I want to be a turtle

I want to be a turtle! See why:

courtesy of Running is Funny

Renege

Okay - I said I was going to take a hiatus from blogging, but in the last couple of days I have had things I wanted to post about or share and was feeling bummed I couldn't. Plus, I found out that I actually have readers (Thanks Take*Two!) not associated with the Sparta running group. (wonders will never cease!).

Another reason is that I need to have the threat of the appearing in "BLOG" when my fellow runners fail to show up to run. One of our runners, who is slowly infiltrating into the morning group, failed to show yesterday despite being signed up. I know she has a fear of what is being said about her in the blog (not sure why that would be!) and I know one of the reasons she failed to roll herself out of bed was because she had no worries about being mentioned in the BLOG. Well, I felt really guilty about that. I felt like I was letting her down (yeah right!). So, I felt the need to serve my people and return to blogging, albeit on a lesser extent.

So here I am again.

I will not blog after every run, just when my fellow runners give me some good material. Plus, I think I will expand the focus a bit beyond running. No fears - I will not give you the mundane details of my daily life! But I do want to be able to share funny or interesting stuff that I can't in some way connect to running.

So.... last night I a lot of dreams which at the time seemed somewhat stressful, but upon wakening I realized were actually HAPPY dreams.

I dreamt that I was in some kind of race at the temperature was going to be a lot warmer than I thought it would be. Not 80's, but more like 50's instead of 20's. In the dream I was stressed about this and wearing the right clothing. But in the wide awake replay I realized that having temperatures in the 50's is ALWAYS better than the 20's!

I dreamt that I got on the vicious scale and it showed my weight at about 10 pounds less than it really it. I didn't believe it and weighed myself again, to a LOWER amount. In the dream I was frustrated by this since I thought the scale was obviously not working right. Now in the wide awake replay I realize that I should never doubt the scale!

I dreamt about my high school friend Donna. It wasn't stressful in anyway. Yeah!

I dreamt that I didn't set my alarm for my morning run. Obviously, I was stressed because I was going to let my friends down and not show up. In the wide awake replay, I should have been happy I got to sleep in one day!

So, this blog is a reminder to us all that life is just a matter of perspective!

Too funny not to post

Okay - I said I wasn't going to post anymore, but this was too funny. I kept thinking - Well, at least that is one thing runners don't need to worry about!

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