March 28, 2009

Wow, today was a show. I woke up early to run a 10k road race. Whitney, Martin, and Alisa all ran too. When the race was over, we went to a Herd for Ferd brunch. Ferd has leukemia, but he's a fighter. There are 96 people in the Herd and they raised $38,000 to fight Ferd's sickness. Additional money was spent on the brunch and even more on Herd T-shirts. Ferd's people sure know how to throw money at things. I was just thankful for a great breakfast spread.

Later in the day I did a "shakeout" run, during which I had a lot of negative thoughts about my ability to race fast.

Soon enough I got over it. Whitney's dad invited us to a Cuban restaurant. According to Whitney "he was in one of his moods." Maybe it was because his girlfriend and her kids came to dinner too. In any case, David's a generous guy in said moods - he bought me an 8 oz bottle of Miller High Life and then goaded me for ordering a light dinner. And to top the night off, his girlfriend's daughter rubbed legs with me under the table. I glanced at this girl's boyfriend and Whitney to see if they were onto it. They weren't.