Weird Rambling from the Training Field....

[DianeL]

Susan turns to me today as we are closing in on 9 miles and says...

"My Garmin is going backwards"

I look at her like yeah right.

"No really it's going backwards on the miles from 8.59 to 8.58 to 8.59 and back again"

Apparently it was having a hard time getting a signal and was in the middle of readjusting her distance. We won't even go into the fact that we walk side by side and my garmin has be farther ahead LOL

In the end the poor Garmin (which Susan has a love/hate relationship with anyways) ended up turned off and dropped off at the car.

So what wild things has your training buddy said to you to make you choke on your Goo?

 

[mousemgr2]

I like how my training buddy forgets to mention that while my garmin may have been going backwards, she was seeing Jurrasic Park sized turtles in the river. It actually turned out to be a large piece of concrete. Shhhh... don't tell her but I thought it looked like a turtle too!

 

[windwalker]

Back in the early 1990s we were preparing to liberate Kwait. As First Sgt it was my call which of my men and women to send into harms way. I was really stressing over the decision so I went for a run. This was at Nellis AFB in Las Vegas, so I was running out in the desert around the base. As I was running along I heard the cry of a bird off to my right. I turned and saw a large brown desert eagle flying along with me. Then he turned and with a final cry headed over the mountians.

When I got back, on a hunch, I went to the command post and looked at the air world map. The direction the eagle had headed would have been a direct line to the middle east.

I felt better about sending my people over after that, like the eagle was a sign that they would be watched over. Every man and woman I sent into the war zone returned safely.

I don't know if that belonged in this post since it didn't involve a training partner but it was a sign to me that there may be more to this world than meets the eye. But of course "I ain't right".

Dave

 

[DianeL]

I recall you telling us that story before.

I also like your little running mouse story that crosses my mind often. just too cute. Course if it happened to us there would be a lot of screaming

 

[windwalker]

I recall you telling us that story before.

I also like your little running mouse story that crosses my mind often. just too cute. Course if it happened to us there would be a lot of screaming

I still look for that little mouse when I get to the section of road he was on. I surely don't wanna step on him, that would be 7 years of bad luck for sure, stepping on Mickey.

Dave "YARC"

 

[DianeL]

Stepping on Mickey could result in being banned from the parks LMBO could be a tad be worse than 7 years bad luck

I just had this vision of you in a Disney race and a volunteer withholding water saying they had heard you were the one who stepped on Mickey

Make sure you give the little guy a wide berth

 

[windwalker]

Stepping on Mickey could result in being banned from the parks LMBO could be a tad be worse than 7 years bad luck

I just had this vision of you in a Disney race and a volunteer withholding water saying they had heard you were the one who stepped on Mickey

Make sure you give the little guy a wide berth

When we went to WDW in Jan we had a slew of problems with our cards. It either wouldn't let one of us in a park, open the hotel door or show we still had food left on our Disney Dinning Plan. One time it let me in Epcot and wouldn't let Erica in. That first time it happened at a restraunt it was quite embaressing when the waiter came back and asked if we had any other way to pay for our meal.

Maybe they suspected that I was the one who had stepped on the mouse.

Dave

 

[Tiger Lily 03]

Sadly, I do not train on the trail with anyone but myself. If I were to say what stories I have to share with my running partner then for sure you'd know I ain't right! Well I am a Gemini; I can be my own partner!

 

[DianeL]

It's ok Lily, you can fess up. We already know your GOOFY!

 

[Honeibee]

I have only little stories.

Like the time my banana slipped out of my AmphiPod and I stepped right on it, sending banana puree all over my brand new Saucony Hurricanes.

And the time, not that long ago, while training for the Memorial Day 5K, that I thought I was on the course...but then I saw the sign that says "Welcome to Connecticut" (We live in New York) and I knew I was pretty lost.

I know there's more. I just can't think of them at the moment. That in itself may be a story.

 

[windwalker]

I have only little stories.

Like the time my banana slipped out of my AmphiPod and I stepped right on it, sending banana puree all over my brand new Saucony Hurricanes.

And the time, not that long ago, while training for the Memorial Day 5K, that I thought I was on the course...but then I saw the sign that says "Welcome to Connecticut" (We live in New York) and I knew I was pretty lost.

I know there's more. I just can't think of them at the moment. That in itself may be a story.

We know what state you are in Darlin, the state of confusion.


Dave "YARC"

 

[Honeibee]

We know what state you are in Darlin, the state of confusion.


Dave "YARC"

Boy, ain't THAT the truth....