November 28,2024
I love Thanksgiving Day! The food! The family!
The Turkey Trot!
Rats… no Turkey Trot for me this year. For the first time in forever, no Turkey Trot.
Occasionally ‘reality’ sucks… and it certainly does in this case.
Every year since the mid-90’s, on Thanksgiving Day I’ve located a local Turkey Trot, registered and run… then FOOD! Lots of FOOD!
I like to think my involvement/running in a 5K or 10K before the large Thanksgiving Day meal means I can eat what I want in whatever quantities I want, and the morning’s Turkey Trot Run 100% offsets those calories.
I know this thinking is wrong as I always consume more calories than I burn during such a run… but allow me please my delusion.
But not this year… no run. With my ankle/leg firmly entrenched in a cast, I decide to make my own Turkey Trot: 1 Lap Around the Block via Crutches. Heart rate raised… sweat on my brow. Exercise!
I’m happy to announce based on official timing, i.e. mine, I was first in all categories of this race: place, sex, and age group! (I forgot to order medals though or I would be showing if off on ‘Medal Monday’.)
It is hoped this will be the only running of the ‘Once Around The Block’ Turkey Trot, as I certainly do not want to re-live this episode on my life again.
While watching the constant flow of NFL games on the Holiday, I had all who wanted to partake, sign my cast. Fiberglass is very different than plaster, but I was at the ready with a good supply of Sharpie markers in black.
Looking at my one-of-a-kind creation signed by all those who lovingly were in my home for Thanksgiving, I decided to take the Sharpie myself, and sign it, and, in the process, profess my goal:
Yes… I WILL BE BACK! Signed “-Me”
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