SUCH A WIMP

Well I didn’t get nervous typing yesterday’s blog entry. The nervousness came later in the day. After work I had time to kill before meeting some folks from MDRA regarding writing for their fine publications. I decided to stop by the local running store on my way. I knew she worked there, occasionally, but I guess I didn’t expect to see her there. You’d think the President of her fan club would be able to put together a couple of sentences, wish her luck at NYC and possibly even ask her if she’d like to be interview after she gets back to town. But nooooo...I couldn’t do it. You’d think I was going to ask her to marry me. WTF? I’m such a wimp.

I will admit that I was a little distracted though. Sitting on a table in the store was a book on the history of the Minnesota state high school track and field meet from like 1925 through 1999. It had results and photos and it was simply amazing – and I’m not even a native Minnesotan. But when you see names like Nenow, Kempainen, Holman, Plascencia, Bjorklund and even “just” guys whose names you see in the results every week – it’s pretty freakin’ cool. Now I understand why the guys whose names appear in the results every week are kicking my ass – because they ran times like 4:19 and 9:27 in high school. Frank Shorter was right, everyone did run 4:30 in high school – except me.

Unfortunately, the book wasn’t for sale. So I jotted down the author’s name, did a quick Google search this morning and BAM…there was his email address right in front of me. I sent a quick email inquiring about the book and 90 minutes later I had my reply; send $25 to said author and I’ll get a copy. Again, pretty freakin’ cool.

Anyway, off to the MDRA meeting where I held my nerves in-check upon meeting this guy. Sorry Jason, but I didn’t find you as intimidating as Katie. I met some other cool people and we just sat around and bounced ideas for topics off on another and picked up some writing tips.

When I got home I stayed up way too late posting another interview. I’m thinking if I can’t get over my nervousness this site may end up just being interviews of men. Not!!!

Alright, it feels like I’m all over the map with this post. But I’m too wound up to worry about it and I have too much to do before we leave tomorrow. If you have nothing better to do on a nice fall day and want to see how I did at Chicago, my bib is #5603.

Quote of the day;

“Men, today we die a little.” – Emil Zatopek, on the starting line for the Olympic Marathon