Today I experienced what some have referred to as "shit-peats", only not on a track. I was scheduled to do 6 quarter mile repeats at a 5K pace. Despite the upset stomach, I had a really good run. The weather was absolutely perfect for running. Just cool enough to make speed work bearable. I daresay I felt half-fast! I also saw the weirdest thing ever...just as was heading back North on the path, by Belmont harbour, I saw a woman with a large garbage bag, standing by the iron fence near the water. From the garbage bag, she took out a giant purple teddy bear. Like the kind you'd win at a carnival. She set the bear on the fence and then took a knife out of her purse.
I swear I'm not making this up.
She then cut the bear open and started dumping the stuffing into the harbour. I don't know what the bear's fate was after that, as I passed her. I did manage to stammer "...I don't think you're supposed to be doing that..." as I ran by. But seriously, what else do you expect from the city renames the Sears Tower?
I'm hoping to make it to the gym tomorrow evening. Possibly to see Runner Boy?
6 comments:
Um...that's slightly creepy. Do you see a lot of oddities like that where you live/run/work/play? Maybe at the theatre, but... ;)
Very, very odd! I wonder what the teddy had "done"???
THat's weird, because I had a carnvial teddy bear incident this week too, although it was hardly an incident...more like a sighting. But as I was arriving near my house, I saw this HUGE carnival-size teddy bear just thrown out in the front lawn of someone's house...all abandoned and looking forlorn. I couldn't help but wonder what was behind that? Was someone going to come home and be in a FIT to see that? Was it a message of some sort? Why would you just throw it out in the front yard (people outside of Chicago: garbage pick-up is in the alley here.) It was very weird. And the next day it was gone. Poof! As it it were never there, laying on the brown grass, awaiting its rightful owner.
Maybe the woman dumping the filling out of it was making some kind of statement about the person who gave it to her? Still...dump your garbage somewhere else, not in the LAKE! Sheesh!
That is just the most bizarre thing!! And, it's really funny that you told her she wasn't supposed to be doing that! Ha!
Sounds like she has some pretty severe relationship issues. The men in her life have probably all been maimed in some way. Ouchie.
So...did you see Runner Boy?
omg that is weird, and creepy!!
great job on the run!
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