Sunday - 16.8 miles easy pace
Tuesday - 7.1 miles at about 9:20 pace
First, kudos to my brother, Eric Norton, and his 3:27 finish at the California International Marathon on Sunday and a shout out to college friend Brian Beck who got a PR at just over 5 hours. Way to go guys!
Like most of the United States, we are experiencing a nasty cold streak in Phoenix. I don't do cold well, which is why I moved to AZ in the first place. So I was forced to break out...tights. Let me say here and now that I run in the dark and no one ever sees me. I'm not one of those guys who proudly parades about in speedo-like apparel. Anyway, I wore 'em and they worked well. HOWEVER, when I got home, my 5 year old daughter saw me and said with a snicker that could only be mustered by a little girl, "Daddy's wearing tights."
At first I thought this was fun and did my best Swan Lake impersonation, but then I realized my daughter isn't one to keep funny stories regarding daddy prancing about the house in tights to herself. I'm fairly certain her teacher, the teacher's aid, the school nurse, crossing guard, and parents of half the students in her class now know that Shannon's dad runs around the house in tights. I'm eager to see what happens when I drop her off tomorrow. I hope parents are sheltering their children from me as If I'm John Merrick. I'll keep you up on how it all progresses.
Until then, I leave you with evidence that manly men run about in tights:
Help me send my marathon finisher medal to a person who survived her fight with cancer by clicking on this link: http://pages.teamintraining.org/dm/pfchangs12/mnortonnpu
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