Lessons Learned

Don't run on Monroe Ave.
Don't run at night.
And most importantly, don't run on Monroe Ave at night.

I decided to switch my route up a bit and run down some different streets. Last night, I chose to run on Monroe Ave, which can be really nice in places, and can be really ghetto in others. I chose to run in the ghetto area... well I shouldn't say that, it was more of where it makes its switch to becoming ghetto so it's like half and half. Anyway, creepers were out at every corner and bus stop and instead of giving them the benefit of the doubt, I freaked myself out.

It actually wasn't SO bad, but once I started thinking crazy things in my head - particularly after I saw the boy dressed in full camo wearing a ninja headband - the thoughts started flowing. Then I started laughing, and the man walking his dog passing by me probably thought I was a crazy that escaped from the asylum, I mean why else would some girl running down the street burst into a fit of giggles for no particular reason? The laughing however, was because I thought about how freaked out I was by a few hoodlums hanging out on the corner, when in actuality, I had a better shot of slipping on the wet leaves I was running on than being abducted by them.

The mere fact that I really thought I was going to be abducted is enough to laugh, but then when I started thinking about all the ways I could hurt myself running is where I really lost it...

I am pretty clumsy sometimes, and tripping on my own feet happens more often than I would like to admit, add some bumps in the sidewalk and that could be a pretty funny faceplant.

I also fear animals of all kinds (as mentioned in earlier posts, please keep your dogs away from me) so being attacked by one naturally comes to mind.

I run past many bushes that I fear I may trip and fall into - because that happens on a regular basis?

I do live in the city, where there are cars, maybe someone will drive up on the sidewalk and run me over? The accident has to take place on the sidewalk because I am too scared to run in the street. No, really.

See, there are so many (funny) things that are more likely to happen than being abducted by someone waiting at the bus stop. However, I don't think I am going to risk it and run down Monroe Ave in the dark again... at least not anytime soon.

XOXO

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STATS

25 Minutes: Run 90-seconds, Walk slowly 2-minutes

Miles Ran: 1.7
Cumulative Miles: 10.85

Days until Race: 22