"Dear Santa,
It pains me to do this, but I'm affraid, one of your Elves has crossed the line into the "naughty zone"! I didn't get her name, but I'm sure you know who she is. I don't know why she chose to pick on me, but something about my bare feet while running the "Dallas Jingle Bell 5K" race really upset her. I was very polite when she gruffly accused,"I hope you practiced before doing this!" eyeing my feet. I guess she was distracted by the Chirstmas lights wrapped around me and didn't notice the barefoot 13.1 tattoo on the back of my calf or the huge "13.1" on the chest of my long sleeve "White Rock Half-Marathon" shirt. I just smiled and politely asked with a smile, "Yes, Ma'am...did you see the shirt?". Not the answer she was expecting, she yelled back,"Well, you're keeping the Orthopedic Surgeons in business!" Maybe she just needs a Santa hug to get her back in the Christmas spirit, but if you gotta use a switch...I'm ok with that too! ;o)
Also, your Cemitar Elf who was running the race yelled for me to put some shoes on rather rudely, though...now that I think about it...he could have been half an Ass instead of horse, so that's probably par for the course.
Thanks for listening! See you on the 25th!
Love,
-Nice Jonny "
This was actually a really fun race! It was my first experience with the heart rate driven training, and it was brutal to run that slow, but I look at it as, I got to run for 41 min in my fat burning zones, instead of less than 30 burning sugar. It was also my wife's bestie's first 5K. (Jimmy, if you're reading this, she's going to be calling you for some coaching! She was the one at the clinic with the really old shoes you hated!)
It pains me to do this, but I'm affraid, one of your Elves has crossed the line into the "naughty zone"! I didn't get her name, but I'm sure you know who she is. I don't know why she chose to pick on me, but something about my bare feet while running the "Dallas Jingle Bell 5K" race really upset her. I was very polite when she gruffly accused,"I hope you practiced before doing this!" eyeing my feet. I guess she was distracted by the Chirstmas lights wrapped around me and didn't notice the barefoot 13.1 tattoo on the back of my calf or the huge "13.1" on the chest of my long sleeve "White Rock Half-Marathon" shirt. I just smiled and politely asked with a smile, "Yes, Ma'am...did you see the shirt?". Not the answer she was expecting, she yelled back,"Well, you're keeping the Orthopedic Surgeons in business!" Maybe she just needs a Santa hug to get her back in the Christmas spirit, but if you gotta use a switch...I'm ok with that too! ;o)
Also, your Cemitar Elf who was running the race yelled for me to put some shoes on rather rudely, though...now that I think about it...he could have been half an Ass instead of horse, so that's probably par for the course.
Thanks for listening! See you on the 25th!
Love,
-Nice Jonny "
This was actually a really fun race! It was my first experience with the heart rate driven training, and it was brutal to run that slow, but I look at it as, I got to run for 41 min in my fat burning zones, instead of less than 30 burning sugar. It was also my wife's bestie's first 5K. (Jimmy, if you're reading this, she's going to be calling you for some coaching! She was the one at the clinic with the really old shoes you hated!)