I was in a car accident last night. I have a friend who just got a brand new Mercedes C300---red, glossy, absolutely gorgeous. We were rear ended right as we were pulling off the freeway in Salt Lake. Teenage kids behind us going about 40 mph not realizing there was a stand still line exiting the interstate. You know, I love a gorgeous car ( I grew up around them), but I'm reminded time and time again what a waste it is to have something that expensive. STUFF, always gets wasted. Unless you really like spending a lot of your free time and mental energy taking care of somthing that expensive (AND you enjoy throwing $100 dollar bills out the window for a hobby)--it's not worth it. I probably should have whiplash--but that particular car has so many insane saftey features, I hardly felt it even thought the air bags and head rest impact stoppers were deployed. I want to own the kind of car that if I'm rear ended on a Friday night, I would not even remember or care on Saturday. A car is a car. I wore the Garmin today but decided not to look at it until about half way through. I ran pretty strong, but not full out and was averaging 9 m/m. This was news to me. 9:11/ 8:54/ 9:05/ 9:14/ 9:26/ 9:24/9:09/9:31/9:43/9:30/9:39/10:53 I really thought they were 12 m/m for sure. I stopped to stretch the right places twice, but overall had a really strong uninteruppted run. Made me wonder about Ogden in May (the half vs. the whole?). The warmer weather really makes a difference on those wounded ligaments. They are feeling pretty ok, no pain sitting, no aching in my outer hip. Next Saturday I will strive for negative splits. I thought I was going to do that today, but around 10 miles I really took it down a notch. I wasn't expecting to have such a great run, it's been a crappy week overall. It was nice to see the river today, unfrozen and dark green. Funny though, today was the day of the hundreds of tiny black birds roosting in a single tree chirping loudly. Also geese (Canadian Geese) all honking and gathered in the cow field. Then there were the 100 or so seagulls standing way out on the still frozen Utah lake. Standing there in a group waiting, as if the thaw would occur at any minute. At the pier I saw where they cut that square out for the 'swimmers' last weekend. The ice is getting more opaque as it thaws, but it's still frozen. There were tons of runners out there in the sun, enjoying the sparkle of light on the newly unfrozen waters. I can't believe March (my least favorite month of the year is right here.
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