Year of the tiger. There's an Asian saying that what you do today will set the tone for what you do for the rest of the year. Well, I spent the morning looking for Dustin at the Austin Marathon, the afternoon chainsawing a bunch of limbs in my backyard and assembling some bikes, and the evening cooking dinner for Alison. Sounds like it's going to be an interesting year.
Dinner was pasta with sun dried tomatoes, shiitake mushrooms and sauteed spinach. We ate it with candles lit while watching Mad Men. Pretty romantic, yes?
It was a great day for a marathon. Maybe a little warm if you stayed out too long. Dustin set a new PR this year. 4:18:14 - very impressive.
Sadly, the marathon route didn't turn on 49th street this year - which meant no marathon watching party at Eric and Gaby's. For some reason (many suspect Tracy's sign from a past year comparing running to an act of self-pleasure), the route turned at 48th street - a very boring corner of rental properties (see above).
Speaking of athletic endeavors, I've been watching the Winter Olympics regularly since they started this weekend. It's like comfort food - I remember watching the Olympics with my family since way back in the early 70's. 80 hours of curling coverage? - Where can I get BBC-2?
3 comments:
Hope this doesn't mean I will be getting lost all year??? I would appreciate it though if all pictures of me running could be taken before the half-way mark instead of when I am ALWAYS dying around mile 22. Thanks for coming out to wait for me & funny that Chris and you were just 20ft from each other and didn't notice it.
Hey Alvin,
I realized today that you had called me yesterday AM...turns out you called my work cell phone. Go ahead and delete that number and put in the number I called you from right after I saw you. That's the phone I always have on me. Ya know the iphone. Sorry we didn't meet up til almost the end!
I tried to take a picture of you at mile 10. But in hind sight, waiting at a water stop was probably a bad idea. Runners slow down, but they also bunch up, so it's hard to pick out people. You did great - congrats!
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