Running: 21 July 2010 - Runny-dipping?

Ahhh, running.  And running, and running.  I'd been feeling guilty about not running the past FOUR days, and knowing the Madison County Milers meet Wednesday mornings between 5:30 and 5:45 to run, I really thought I should pull my butt out of bed and go.  So I did.  I got to our meeting place, stretched, and was just about to take off when Michelle showed up.  So I stretched a bit more while she prepared, and we took off.  I looked at the sky and the red clouds..."red skies at morning, sailors take warning" came into my head.  I wondered, heat? or humidity? or....We'll see.  Anyway, the pace was good and at one point I just sort of pulled ahead of Michelle.


At the 1.5 mile mark my watch said 13 minutes.  Not bad.  It was another humid morning and there was ground fog which meant the air temperature was lower than the ground temperature and within three or four degrees of each other.  It would have been a great morning to runny-dip.  You know, tennies, earbuds and jock strap....would have felt cooler anyway.  Reminds me of the first and only time I went skinny-dipping. 

I was on temporary duty to Panama City, Florida at Tyndall Air Force Base.  I had ridden my bike down to the beach on base, waded out waist deep and slipped off my trunks and tossed them up on the beach.  Ahh...whee....splash, splash...float, float...paddle, paddle....done.  It was fun, liberating, and short-lived.  Don't know what all the hullaballoo is about.  It's just swimming naked.  Well, I decided to head back to the dorms so I made my way to where...my...trunks...used...to...be...........Oh CRAP!  They were gone!  It was early evening, and I did not notice the tide had come in and had taken them.  How was I going to get back to the dorms on my bike butt-naked?  What if the military police stopped me?!?!  So I wandered up and down the shoreline (still waist deep in the water) looking for my trunks.  I waved at the few couples I saw walking hand in hand and then...in the distance, I saw my trunks.  They were floating in and out with the waves.  God, did I swim fast for them!  I grabbed them, shoved my feet through the leg holes and cinched them up around my waist and waded out onto the beach.  Ahhhh.  Then, I jumped on my bike and headed back to the dorms with my little scare my little secret. 

Oh yeah, blood sugar before the run 100.  25 grams of Shaklee Performance, 4.3 miles in 35:33, pulse 156 two minutes after, and blood sugar 87 after the run.  It was all good.

See ya tomorrow, kiddies...
myk