86th - Bull Dukey!

Me - Good Morning Daddy! I'm going for a run!
Dad - Where you going?
Me - Up to Momin's house.
Dad - Why don't you take the car?
Me - Because I want to run. I'm feeling a wee fat.
Dad - Its faster to take the car.
Me - But that defeats the point of running.
Dad - Put gas in the car.
Me - I'M RUNNING.
Dad - How are you going to run?
Me - One foot places after the other at a semi-quick pace.
Dad - Okay, okay. Run to Sheppard and take the bus.
Me - You're not getting this are you?

Eventually, I began my run. I haven't done any physical activity in months and I was never really a strong runner when it came to long distances. Nonetheless, I set out on my ten kilometer run to Momin's house. About two k's into this run i see the overpass which is a semi-steep uphill. I grit my teeth and trudge along.

Right before the hill is a bus stop and at this bus stop is a very cute girl. I look as I run trudge by, she looks, there are smiles and I continue. Now I'm up making my way up the hill, feeling as if I'm about to drop dead. But I push on because the cute girl who I don't know, will never see again, let alone meet may be watching. I slowly and painfully make it to the top and over the apex point so I'm out of view. I wanted to cry. I move along my set path slowly and vaguely determined. I pass finch and go along the bend to find that my path is cut off by a train moving slower than I'm running. 15 minutes later, I continue my run.

I make it all the way to Momin's house to find Mome and Asmar sitting in his car about to leave. I get in the car. It's not like I have anything better to do and where are we going? UofT Scarborough, which is incidentally a two minute drive from my house. Purpose Defeating.

The running continued later in the day and night as well. Now, it is the next morning and I am, you guessed in, in lots of pain. But it's a good pain.

Then there was the incident with a raccoon but that's a whole new story.

Be good.


ZQ