Oh so heavy!

The other day I signed up for a 5k running race. After signing up I noticed that there was a category option one could sign up for called "Athena". To qualify for this category one must weigh 140 lbs or more. I had never heard of such a thing until I saw it after signing up. After looking more into it, I learned that a category like this is set up because to weigh 140 or more is considered heavy and may make it harder for one to run.

I happen to weigh 145. Maybe I should feel insulted that I have qualify for the "heavy" category but oddly I got excited when I found out. Does my being excited about this mean there's something wrong with me?? :-D

Now I regret not actually signing up in that category. What happens if I lose weight and end up weighing less than 140? What happens if I never have the opportunity to run as a "heavy Athena" again?!

I'm filing this under "missed opportunities". I know when I run this race I'll be haunted by the fact that I signed up as a "general runner" rather then "Athena".

Oh the agony!

I'm such a liar.

In my stand-up I have been making claims for quite some time that I never passed the physical fitness test in school during my childhood. Well it turns out that I have(without knowing) been lying to everyone about that. I discovered this when I was digging up some old writing of mine and stumbled across this physical fitness award certificate from when I was in elementary school:

Sorry you guys.

If I discover I've been lying to you about other stuff, I'll be sure to let you know.

From

Val

Happy Summer!

I've been doing a bit of running and every once in awhile I'll participate in a running race as a way to motivate myself to get some exercise and keep on running. The motivation comes from knowing that I'll be running in public amongst people who are far more athletic and faster than me. In keeping up with the running and training for these things though I've actually gotten a little bit faster over the year. In some of the races I participate in there are photographers stationed along the race course taking pictures of everyone. Sometimes they'll send out an email before a race suggesting that you smile when you run by the cameras. I've noticed in friends pictures they have taken the advice and appear to be filled with joy as they run by the camera with a smile on their face. I on the otherhand can honestly say that I have never smiled for the camera instead I seem to always(not on purpose) be making a facial expression that suggests I may be just moments away from keeling over...:-D

Oh well...:-)

Had so much fun doing stand-up tonight at "In a Pig's Eye" in Salem, MA with the hilarious Tony V(thank's to Brian Gordan)!
Here's some of the lovely people who came out to laugh:




It was the first time in quite some time that I've done stand-up in Salem(which happens to be the city I was born in). :-)

I put a clip of my set from Friday 2/3/12 up on youtube. I should have edited a few things out of it, but oh well, give it a watch anyway. It's about 8 minutes long.