Warning...potty talk ahead.
I took my 18 year old son in early this morning for a colonoscopy. He's complained of stomach pains for years and was recently diagnosed with IBS (Irritable Bowel Syndrome). This morning's procedure was basically just to rule out what isn't the cause, and his colon was normal and healthy. Those of you familiar with the process know he had to fast yesterday, take some pills, and drink some awful tasting stuff to clean out his colon. Not too surprisingly, he was hungry on the way home. Although I don't think he had fully recovered from the anesthesia yet, he was conscious enough to say he wanted to stop at the Daylight Donuts shop we passed. I was a cook at a Daylight Donuts shop nearly 30 years ago, so we made a nostalgic stop. I know none of you other runners eat donuts, but if you know a friend of a friend that eats donuts, I highly recommend Daylight Donuts. I was leaving for work a little late and hadn't had breakfast so I had donuts for breakfast. I was weak. They were really good. I can't remember if I had 3 or 4 as we talked before I left. I paid for my indulgence, however, with a little IBS of my own during my noon run (pun intended). I could sense something was a bit off before the run so I ran around the back streets of East Bay so I wouldn't be too far from a restroom. I've already shared too much information, but I'll just say that this strategy paid off. On a different note, today's run was also the maiden voyage of my new Saucony Trigons. It was only an easy run, 5.6 miles @ avg. 8:16/mi, but they felt really good. I wanted to keep running, but we have a church basketball game tonight so I chose not to overdo it. This is an update after the basketball game...We only had 5 players show up, Austin, Jeff, my sons Andrew and Adam, and me, so we got plenty of playing time. The other team started with 10 players, then had an 11th show up at half time. We won the first half 35-34, but ran out of gas in the second half. I had a good night shooting, maybe a career high. I think I hit 3 for 3 from the 3-point line, and added a few other baskets. I actually don't remember missing a shot, but I might have. I had some pretty decent assists, too, but they were balanced out with a number of turnovers. I even remember getting a rebound...not too common for an old 5'7" guy that avoids the dangers of entering the key as much as possible. All in all, it was a whole lot of fun.
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