Early Saturday morning, I was asleep in my bed and contently dreaming of slowly waking up, feasting on hot malasadas, watching some college football and happily getting chubby while doing each of these activities. To my great surprise, however, I was awakened by my son saying "Dad...dad, get up, I got to tell you something." (this was a great surprise, as I have never seen my son walk or make syllables yet, let alone speak in complete sentences!)
"What is it, son? Daddy was having a nice dream," I mumbled.
"Dad, just because you were too lazy to enter the Peacock 54 doesn't mean that I haven't been planning on how to tackle that race. Can you and mom take me up there right now to re-conn the course so I can take a crack at the record 30 years from now? Come on, dad, please!!!!"
"Allright son, pack up your bottle."
"One more thing, Dad: could you buy me some racing sunglasses too?"
"OK son," I agreed, "now grab your racing diapers and let's go!"
"GREAT! Last thing, dad: don't skimp on the quality of the glasses, either. There are no shortcuts to the podium. "
"Who told you that?!"
"This is really the last thing, dad, and then I won't ask any more questions. After the run, can we soak our legs in the ocean? And I was also thinking that it would be nice if you and mom could dress me in a fairly hot Halloween costume so I could practice some heat training just in case I want to do Badwater some day. Uncle Don Fallis said you can never start too early."
"Yeah, yeah, but I don't want you talking to Uncle Don Fallis anymore about Badwater, and don't even think about talking to your Uncle John Salmonson about Hardrock or HURT!"
(here's the pics to document the veracity of this account)
Hey Nate,
As we talked about last time, don't listen to Daddy. Uncle John and I will have you breaking ALL of your Daddy's records and others too, before you are out of diapers. Hey, good job on coping the cool sunglasses. You are one cool dude ! Give me five ! Uncle Don
Posted by: Don | November 02, 2009 at 10:50 AM
Nate would never chicken out of Peacock 54....
Posted by: cheryl | November 02, 2009 at 08:54 AM
Hey Matt,
Looks like it was a great adventure. Hope you had some sunscreen on Nate's head. Sat night Todd I. was grilling me on running up at Peacock. Must be he was feeling threatened by Nate!
NYC Marathon pretty inspirational running by Meb (and 40,000 others)!
Aloha,
Bob
Posted by: Bob Mc. | November 02, 2009 at 08:17 AM
Well that answers the question about who the Gorilla was up on Crossover last week!
Posted by: Mikem | November 01, 2009 at 10:35 PM