Every week a record . . .

Well it's funny. My friend Bob always asks me how far we are running this week and I always tell him, "oh, only 10, or whatever, no biggie." He always rolls his eyes, tells me I'm crazy and talks about the longest he's ever run (which is 10 miles). It always reminds me when we have this same conversation, about the fact that before I started MM, the farthest I'd ever run was 7, and that was on a treadmill. So it's cool to realize every week (and we have this same conversation every week) that I just did a new personal best. I bet that's true for many of us. It is certainly motivating to think of it that way, at least it is for me. And to think that well, I just ran 9 last week, so 10 can't be all that bad. Should be a can of corn (I'm a baseball fan). It's funny how the mindset and attitude is SO much more important than what our bodies can physically do. It's all in what we think we can do.

I have to tell you that I usually go eat lunch after we run on Saturdays (I do shower first), and we've been going to Ichiban lately. Of course there's a fortune cookie, and mine recently read this: "Only she who attempts the absurd can achieve the impossible." Wow. I think that's me.

Cudos to Cindy Windham, aka Cincha, for running her 10 miles in Vicksburg Military Park this past Saturday. She won't tell you this because she apparently gave up blogging for Lent and it stuck, but she did it, did it fast, and was still on her feet Saturday evening for a cookout and home made ice cream. I run in Belhaven without any problem, but I'm not nuts enough (Mark and Scotty) to voluntarily run in V'burg. You people are crazy, but amazing. Way to go!!

It was also very cool to discover that Debbie's brother-in-law was my high school band director. It's amazing what connections you can discover with people standing around chatting after runs, or on these blogs. Just a happenstance that she mentioned that her husband Ed (or is it Edd, Debbie?) was a band director earlier in life, and it struck me what her last name was, and of course there can't be more than one Ed or Joe Brashier in the music business. Too funny!! It made my day.