Lost In Translation on 2/7/09

I think all of us who made it out to the run this morning might as well have been running through a maze.  Coach Charlie spent about 10 minutes describing the route we would all run for our “12 miler.”  Clearly, he didn’t take long enough to describe it - either that or we didn’t listen well enough (it was probably the latter).

Captain America led us out, but as usual, we lost sight of him before we knew it.  It’s almost a good thing we weren’t following him because after he told us where he ended up running, we realized he got more lost than anyone.

I’m not exactly sure what happened to Crystal, Brian, and Ashwin, but I know that Jessie and I missed the very first left turn that we were supposed to make, and about 1/3 of the way through the run we had a moment where we just stood around looking at all the different routes we could take, and we had no idea which was right.  It was like we were in the castle in Super Mario 64 and we didn’t know which door we should take.  Ok, that’s a stretch, but I wanted to give a shout out to the classic N64 game.

A friendly couple walking their dogs pointed us in the “right” direction, so we went with it.    We eventually realized that we made a mistake somewhere along the way, but we were on a trail, and it had mile markers, so we just kept on going...

After all was said and done, Jessie and I ran 13ish miles, and it’s unknown how far Crystal, Brian and Shwin ran, but it was probably right around the intended 12 miles.

We certainly missed Lena (who ran her 12 miles on Friday) and Chris (who ran later in the day), but we all finished and we are ready to tackle the 14 mile run next weekend.  No? Too soon?

Until next time, stay classy.