Late Evening: 4 mile run to city creek pa 4 & back. After 3 days of eating lotza high calorie food in Idaho and no exercise I really needed to run, even if it was a short run.
Just after I got to the intersection of 11th Avenue and the one way road that leads down towards city creek I came across a car coming the WRONG WAY up the road in the bycycle/pedestrian/runner lane. Now this always pisses me off because it is quite dangerous for the bike riders, walkers & runners, especially with night coming on, and I always make people turn around and go the proper direction even if it is the LONG WAY. This particular wealthy looking gentleman in his sports car with his fancy girlfriend did not want to turn around, but since I was standing in the middle of the lane with my arms spread eagle, I seemed to hold the upper edge. We discussed the situation for about 3 minutes (convertibles make for easy conversation), with him wanting me to get out of his way, and with me planting my sweaty greasy hands on the hood of his nice car so I had something comfy to lean on while I argued my case. Come on he said "it's just 15 more yards to the intersection", I said "nope, you gotta turn around". He said "you know it's a two way street", I said "nope it isn't, you gotta turn around". He said "okay move out of the way & I'll turn around"; I said "nope, you back up to turn around" (I was NOT going to get out of his way!) So he finally backed up to turn around and drove back down the proper direction. By that time a lot of people had been walking up the hill and congratulated me for making him turn around because they were mad at him as well for driving in the "no-car" lane.
So that was interesting, but other than that the run was kind of crappy because I had just driven 400+ miles, was in a bad mood because I took a wrong turn earlier that day that added over 40 miles to the trip (#$&#@!), had just wolfed down a roast beef sandwich and whole bunch of cantalope for dinner, and had a heavy stomach and heavy clunky legs to go with it. Also I'm still coughing up a bunch of crap from my lungs, but at least I'm coughing a lot less than last week.
Oh, I had a real good time visiting friends up in Idaho and eating See's Chocolate Candy! :) | 
