Better to Laugh

Think Halloween is scary with its vampires, ghosts, spiders, witches, and ghouls?  Not nearly as scary as the next two months of candy, pies, cookies, pumpkin rolls, pitch-ins, and monstrous calorie packages disguised as gifts.  This afternoon I have eaten two handfuls of candy corn and peanuts.  There is a bag of opened trick or treat candy in the kitchen, but I will resist the evil temptation.  I did not lose 50 pounds to gain some back over two months!  Ugh!

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I am training for a trail marathon on December 5.  I haven’t gotten serious about training until recently, mostly due to a hamstring strain.  I finally got a long trail run/walk in last weekend at Brown County State Park.  I was running alone, because Terry is way faster than I am.  I got lost, because I couldn’t see the trail at times through the leaves.  I finally climbed out of a ravine through thorny bushes saying to myself, “I don’t think I am on the trail anymore.”  Duh…what was my first clue, the fallen logs I had to climb over or the thorny underbrush catching on my pant legs and scratching my arms?  People with ADD probably shouldn’t run on barely visible trails – one distraction (look, a squirrel!), and you are done.  Anyway, I came out of the ravine at someone’s campsite; imagine his surprise, as he is relaxing in his camp chair, at seeing a middle-aged, gray-haired woman climbing out of the woods where there is no trail.  I told him that somehow I got off of Trail 9, and he pointed me in the direction of the trailhead.  I eventually got back on the path, Terry and I passed each other, and I almost lost the trail again.  I love a challenge!  It was so much fun, I am going to do it again!

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