I will beat Dillsmack!!!

6/1/07  Today the plan was for a three mile run.  The Nike Plus went above and beyond yesterday as I plowed through puddles, rain, and hail to get my four miles in.  This morning, the pouch for the Nike Plus sensor arrived.  The sensor fits inside the little neoprene puch which then attaches to my shoelaces and off I go.  The only problem was that after thrirty minutes of running, the Nike Plus said I had barely coverd 2 miles.  Now that seemed rather short to me, given the fact that I am usually on pace for 11 or 12 minute miles.  But I kept running, thinking, “oaky, maybe I am a little slow or something.”  After 50 minutes of running, I had only gone 2.7 miles and I decided to throw in the towel.  I was pretty sure I had done the planned 3 miles and was getting tired and pissed that my beloved Nike Plus was not logging my run properly. 

Fuck, now Dillsmack would be ahead of me!  Oh yeah, and it was raining too! What is going on with all the rain from 3-5 pm every day?  I don’t expect sun but maybe I could catch a little bit of even reasonable weather!

I came home and  began to explain my technical woes to my mom.  She said, “well, Dillsmakc is like 15 years yonger than you and you have had a baby.”  Okay, mom, that doesn’t make me DEAD!  I still want to duke it out even when I know that someone is probably in way better physical shape then me.  I have to try.  Plus this initial running challenge of 20 miles is more about effort than ability.  We are both able to run so it is just a matter of logging the miles first.  I will bet him, I must beat him, he will admit defeat!!