I have actually started item #4: running. I started on Easter Sunday, and have been out there two weekday mornings (at 6:30 thank you very much) and one weekend day (accompanied by small child thank you very much) each week since then - until Monday, that is. On Monday, I had failure:
The track, which has one of those synthetic surfaces, was COVERED with worms. Alive and moving, happy to be out in the drizzle. I went once around, and decided that I really didn't need to be out there avoiding worms in the rain, so I bailed. The high school track team probably squished them all later, but I haven't been back yet to see. Maybe tomorrow.
Ew, poor worms. I admire your moxie though. I don't think I could ever run unless I was chased.
ReplyDeleteI remember one night when Red was a baby and went through her colic phase. In order to shut her up one night, we went for a drive down dark country roads. I turned onto one lane only to discover that it was completely covered with frogs. They were commuting - I think - from one pond or stream to another and this lane was their highway. The noise was deafening and after squishing a couple under my tires, I made a tight U-turn and went back home. I was already traumatized by a squalling newborn and now I'd killed umpteen million little frogs!
Rain soaked worms make me vomit. Really.
ReplyDeleteBoth my sense of smell and my gross-out metre have been heightened by two pregnancies. I used to love going outside after a rain, and now sometimes I have to breathe through my mouth because it smells...wormy.
ReplyDeleteI tried running a couple years ago. I liked it more than I thought I would, but my knee didn't -- it still creaks when I climb stairs from that three-month period. I'm back to walking. It's enjoyable. But slow.
Good for you!!!
ReplyDeleteI would have bailed because of the worms too. Blech.
did it look like the track was alive?? I think I have done workouts on tracks like that. I call them "worm killers"
ReplyDeleteGO YOU!
ReplyDeleteWorms is a perfectly good reason to avoid a high school track. So is avoiding the mortifying experience of being seen in track shorts by Brian Freedman, the ultra-cute head of the debate team. Just in case you need another reason.
I am in the same boat except substitute "lake flies" for worms. They are slow, dumb, non-stinging, and non-biting, but they swarm. And drone. I can't stand to be outside AT ALL.
ReplyDeleteOur track gets covered in geese and goose poop. But worms--Yeah, that would be superhuman to run over worms.
ReplyDeleteyuck.
ReplyDeleteBlech! KayTar would have loved it, though. Every morning she goes on a worm hunt before school, because they are still out in the dawn, but it gets too hot later in the day and they all hide...or die.
ReplyDeleteWorms are a safety hazard. You're excused.
ReplyDeleterunning is one of those things i keep meaning to do and don't.....
ReplyDeleteand yes, i agree that you are excused due to the worms. to hard to miss them and to squishy and sad when you stomp on them.
you're kind of a badass.
ReplyDeleteThe worms do that same thing in the parking lot where I work. It makes me sad to think of all the worms I'm squishing as I drive over them with my big tires.
ReplyDeleteI would have hurled on my shoes. EEK!
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