so I decided to be all social yesterday and meet up with a group for a training run – and yep, six miles later, face down in the gutter with the skin off my hands and knees

so the lesson I learned??? running with people other than fred, sarah, and Nicole is rotten – and painful

“running free” – great classic book about the british miler seb coe – I think the book came out in ’83 – was basically wrapped up by the 1980 Olympics – I guess what I enjoyed most from the book was coe’s fearless determination after a bad performance in his first race at Moscow – he was written off – completely tossed aside – and he had the guts a couple of days later to get out there and win the gold in an event that wasn’t his strong suit – very inspiring

“Norwegian by night” – my first adult fiction book in years – I’m so diversified!!! anyway, an 82-year-old witnesses a crime – and his dementia prevents him being totally in the present, but his life’s memories and work help him protect a small child – all the while the police close in on the killer – really got good the further along one got

currently reading a great book involving why baseball players are overpaid – and why small schools both over and underperform – I should get a job with stats in education – but no one would listen to them

happy last-minute-shopping – if in doubt, yes, you definitely need to buy more:)

maf