Gin and Zilbertronic

this last week i ran the dallas turkey trot (with jeremy in tow, he ran the fun run) and it was the most at ease and comfortable i’ve been in a race, flat out ever.  partly this was the fact that the weather was perfect, and that i was running with 7000 people instead of by myself.  but there was also the change of scenery, the fact that i got to run through and see a large part of a city i’ve never been to (and sorry, dallas, but i’m probably not comin back).  i had my goal and i stuck to it, and so for the first 6 miles i was smiling, looking around at all the buildings, eavesdropping on people’s conversations, admiring the old people that were running the same pace as me.  the first 2 miles were a clusterfuck, as i weaved in and out of people trying to find a lane, and instead finding some dog poo instead, but ah well, shit happens.   it sort of brought me back to what marie said last year, how she felt like she could go anywhere, catch a 5k by chance and just go for it, get up one day in a strange place and see its people, energy, views.  there was this terrific old bridge in dallas and at one point i glanced behind and just said, “wow,” in the middle of a mostly-abandoned city (its 9 am on thanksgiving, you know) hundreds of people were taking over the city! because there are so many people running, the finish times weren’t accurate, so we all had chips on our shoe, and there was no exact way to know when we started.  i had a feeling it was somewhere around 2 minutes, but i was basically running my pace without knowing the start.  the fact that i blindly got my goal by 2 seconds just puts the icing on the cake…

and now enough about me, check out this amazing video, care of alex ross’s blog…