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I went to a concert last night with my wife and a couple of friends and as I was driving us all back at midnight it dawned on me that this Sunday I’d be running for a longer period of time than had passed since I started hearing music earlier that evening. That’s daunting. We had an hour and a half drive back from the venue and I looked down at the Garmin and saw that I had 14 miles to the next turn. I could picture that turn ahead and the distance to it and it again hit me that I’d be running right past that distance and on for another 12 miles. What the hell?

I think it’ll be triathlons in the future. Obviously, never say never. But marathon distance I don’t think will ever be a comfortable distance.

Insert humor here

I had another shirt printed up for this race after lessons learned from my previous one. Last time, for the Marine Corps Marathon, my shirt only had text on the front and that text was quite small. (Click for a bigger image.) While running I saw many shirts… from the back, with messages that either humored me or touched me or at least distracted me. My shirt, on the other hand, was almost useless. The only people that would see me from the front were the crowds and they wouldn’t have time to read it. Obviously that didn’t work.

This time I have text on the front and back. Here’s the front:

That’s for the crowds which will hopefully be out in force in places. I figure if I can provide some humor for them they’ll be on my side. Here’s the back:

I still run in memory of my dad so I wanted to continue that. My wife asked if I was always going to leave that on there and I guess my response is “until there’s someone else that should be there.” The other thing was an effort to give those behind me a little something to hopefully take their minds off things for a few seconds. I remember many of the peoples’ shirts and signs during the MCM that provided much-needed levity and this was the funniest thing I could think of to put on mine.

It’s especially appropriate given my own reactions to this final week. Hopefully I won’t be a basket case by Sunday morning.

I simply can’t try it. My tolerance for whackiness and dongs is far too low.

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“Oh don’t look at my ugly toes,” I said.

“They’re not ugly, daddy.”

“Look at mommy’s toes, they’re much prettier.”

“But hers are just pink. Yours are all sorts of colors.”

Indeed they are.

State Sen. Roy Ashburn (R-Calif.) was pulled over and arrested for drunk driving. Sources report that Ashburn — a fierce opponent of gay rights — was driving drunk after leaving a gay nightclub; when the officer stopped the state-issued vehicle, there was an unidentified man in the passenger seat of the car.

It’s amazing how often this stuff comes out. Look at the Pope’s house.

Angelo Balducci, an Italian executive who’s been a Gentleman of his Holiness — the elite group of black-suited men who serve the pope in unpaid roles as ushers — negotiating with the 29-year-olf Nigerian Vatican choir member for the services of male prostitutes, as part of the larger prostitution ring.

Oopsie!

I bet these guys have a lot on common with The Onion’s Bruce Heffernan.

We’ll miss you, Walks. #

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I almost ordered a new Shuffle, complete with asinine cable-mounted controls which precludes using anything but Shuffle-oriented headphones. Then I sat back and thought. I don’t need an iPod. I loathe the Apple-mandated “thou shalt sync with one computer” since I’m regularly on either my home machine or my work machine and if I want to jam a new song on there at either place Apple would rather I did not. I simply need a small MP3 player.

Enter the SanDisk Sansa Clip+. I got a 4G one (because Best Buy doesn’t carry the 2G one) for less than the cost of a 2G iPod Shuffle. And for my money I get a player that has a (small) screen, has an FM tuner (useful for those YMCA workouts when I want to listen in to the TV feeds), has a programmable equalizer, can be expanded with SD cards, can be used with any earbuds known to man, is compatible with Rhapsody 2 Go if I ever want to go back, and which is mountable on any PC.

And yet the Shuffle outsells it by some insane factor, I’m sure. Oh well. I for one welcome my new workout buddy.