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May
5, 2007
Day Fourteen
It’s Wild - somewhere.
Woke today feeling a bit glum. As I slowly
became sentient the first thing to tap one of my
senses was the pain in my Achilles. I
desperately wanted to keep up my running but I
knew today would not be a run day.
The next bullet of thought to enter my brain was
all my friends at Wildflower who would be just
bedding down before their big day - and I wasn’t
there.
I went on-line and did my best to try to find
some kind of a feed for the race but there was
nothing.
After a few hours of writing I walked down to
the gym and sat on the bike for an hour. My guy
was back again and he smiled broadly to see me
walk in. That cheered me a bit. Today I kept
my Thumps off my head and instead talked to him
while spinning. He was most interested to hear
about my home and was shocked to learn I wasn’t
married and didn’t have any children. When I
told him I was an only child he was gobsmacked.
As surprised as he was to hear about my life I
was just as interested to hear about his. His
name, phonetically sounded something like Ballo.
He was thirty three years old and both of his
parents had “expired”. He had three younger
sisters and two younger brothers. I asked him
if he was married and he told me his wedding was
planned for the following month and he was most
excited with the prospect. He would have liked
to get married sooner but it was his
responsibility to arrange the marriages for all
his siblings before he tending to his own
needs. His final sister was to be married the
following week.
Now that, my friends, is a different way to
live.
Had a good workout.
Later in the evening DJ and I had a little
impromptu chat about the script that had me
feeling good about the direction of things, then
spent the rest of the evening pulling my hair
out over Wildflower. Had a bad moment at one
point while I was searching for any kind of
results when I saw one of the girls I was
looking for logging onto Skype about the time
she should have been coming out of the lake!
Turned out it was her husband looking to see if
I knew anything. He wasn’t able to join her at
the race and was going through the same thing I
was.
Had a moment of excitement when I received an
email from a buddy who was down there with his
girlfriend racing but his abilities to get me
any kind of splits on how anyone was doing were
limited to the point of nothing.
I went to bed feeling anxious. |
