Winter in New England is a fairly strange time of year. Most people (normal people) spend a lot of time indoors in a sort of Flatscreen induced hibernation. Fueled primarily by the human instinct to survive, and a refrigerator full of beer and frozen dinners.
Chances are though, if you are reading this you fall into another group of people. A smaller group, who are a little different than the others. We’ll call you “the crazy people”. People who practice for running a marathon by running a half marathon the day before. People who run 4 miles to Danvers to run 3.1 miles, then run 4 miles back. People who say “yes it is pitch black out, yes it is New Years Eve, yes it is a snow storm, and OF COURSE I’m going to go running”
I had the good fortune of spending some time with 16 of you “crazy people” Wednesday night. I heard statements like, “lets do a pre-run”, “it’s not really that cold”, and my favorite “that beer is gonna taste great”. Truthfully though, I applaud the dedication you all show in consistently making the D5K such a great weekly affair. I know the days are not getting any warmer, but being crazy people that really shouldn’t matter to much. So keep stuffing into those “oh so” flattering spandex clothing and huttle around in the prayer circle, as we pray for a “cold wave”. Hooray for HEAD WIND.
On a more personal note: I am not really feeling so inspired in the writing department today. The above paragraphs feel a bit fragmented and run astray to me. So to compensate for my lack of interesting readable content, I made a special piece of D5K visual candy for your viewing enjoyment. I find a lot of inspiration in the winter, and originally wanted to put together a simple D5K logo that had a winter theme to it. Well, it got little out of hand, as so many things in our life can. I consider this my P.R. for the D5K logos, I really enjoy looking at it, and I hope you do as well. Now what am I gonna do next week? Maybe Live Polar Bears.
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