Lots of geocaching at Oak Mountain on Saturday. So much geocaching that we ended up leaving the Peavine Falls parking lot around 5:15ish with absolutely no spring in our step and only an hour to walk three miles before they closed the gate. Hitched a ride back to the car with a very nice older couple, driving a little SUV with a “Bush 04″ sticker on it, one with a rat-tail longer than my hair. They told us they had been out fishing, only because deer season ended two weeks ago and so (regrettably) “even if you see ‘em you can’t shoot ‘em”.
Stopped at the brand spankin’ new Whole Foods market on the way home…after half an hour in the parking lot we finally found a spot. Got some FRESH PEANUT BUTTER (which you cannot get anywhere in this town…until now. Wow I’m easily excited!) and some awesome key lime green tea soda and some snow pea leaves. It’s a good thing that Whole Foods is out on 280 (which I only venture down once a month on my trek to Target to get wet cat food and laundry detergent), or I’d spend my whole (ha ha) paycheck there.
We’re back on the running thing again, after a week off for TheSickness. Except for tomorrow, no, tomorrow is the Festival of Colors celebration at Taj India with my ex-rugby pals. The only thing better than Indian food with friends is having Indian food with friends and getting to throw colored powder on each other.
Be happy for each other, please. Today I found out that the one of the best runners in Birmingham, a 29-year old in awesome shape who left behind most other runners in the dust, collapsed this weekend in the middle of running a regional half-marathon. He was airlifted to UAB and there is nothing more medically that can be done. Memento vivere | Memento mori indeed.
