09.13.07
no thrashing today
I ate a PowerBar today with my afternoon cup of coffee and the cardboardy/vitaminy taste of the almost-chocolate brought me immediately back to my running heyday in the 90’s (a long-ass time ago, I know). They say one’s sense of smell is directly linked to memory in our brains and, it’s true … whenever I smell British Sterling cologne I think of my dad getting ready to go out on a Saturday night. Old Spice was his every day scent; British Sterling was for special occasions. So, when I smelled/tasted that PowerBar today I remembered all those afternoons when I would dutifully eat half a PowerBar with a strong cup of coffee before my Wednesday night thrashings on the track. There was no thrashing today after my bar … only a nice 30 minute run on the trails. I feel like some Shakespearian character - Prospero, maybe - washed up on the beach, waiting for my fool to tell me what this all means.
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Joan said,
September 14, 2007 at 1:09 pm
“Now my charms are all o’erthrown,
And what strength I have’s mine own,
Which is most faint;”
- from Prospero’s epilogue in The Tempest
Brent said,
September 14, 2007 at 2:35 pm
kind of weird that i just saw power bar is taking applications for sponsorship…maybe it is a sign…or not.
http://www.powerbar.com/TeamElite/Application/