Take your trot and shove it
I want to acknowledge in advance that I'm going to make a lot of people mad with this post. I guess it's good that only 3 people ever read this blog. First and foremost, happy thanksgiving to you and yours! And if you ran the local Turkey Trot, I'm not judging you. Much. But if your friends are anything like mine, you've seen a year's worth of 5k and 10k FB, Instagram, and Twitter posts in the last 12 hours. It's Thanksgiving, which means the annual Turkey Trot has risen from the ashes, making competitive runners of even the least dedicated couch to 5k'ers. Friends who hardly ever run are out there, pounding the pavement in order to "deserve" that extra slice of pie tonight. Three hundred runners at a time, everyone is out "earning" their Thanksgiving dinner. Except me. Now here's the thing. I run. A lot. Like "3-4 marathons a year" lot. My latest "interesting only to me" goal is to run 3 marathons in 3 d