Sunday afternoon as I scrolled through my twitter feed, I saw a tweet from Running Bloggers letting me know that I’d made the 2013 Readers’ Choice Top 100 Running Blogs! Sweet!
I came home from my visit with my parents to the BEST. SURPRISE. EVER!!! Bill and Joseph painted this VT stripe on our garage wall while I was gone! Daniel was at work or I’m sure he would have painted a blue and gold WV over it! 🙂
Yesterday I actually remembered to turn my Map My Run app on during my 3-mile tempo run (I ran an easy 15 minute run to and from the trail). Despite running at noon, it wasn’t too hot!
And speaking of the weather, this morning’s weather was totally rockin’ and it was far cry from last Friday’s hazy, hot, and humid steam bath we experienced. Friday’s are a day off from running for me; so please-oh-please stick around, delightful weather, for tomorrow’s long run with the Cruisers!
Deb Run’s reader, Jimmy Evans, alerted me to a huge running streak that came to an end on Tuesday. Mark Covert hadn’t missed a single day of running for……. drum roll please…. 45 years! So what did he do on his first day of no running? He went on an 18-mile bike ride! I think I would have eaten a celebratory box of Little Debbie fudge rounds! 😉
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Those of you that really know me, know how much I love “walked into a bar” jokes. The following video reminds me of this one…
A bear walked into a bar. He walked up to the bartender and said,
“I’ll have a beer …………………… and some peanuts.”
The bartender answered, “Sure, but why the big pause?”
Yes, this bear really did walk into the Lonigans Saloon Nightclub & Grill in Estes Park, Colorado while people were enjoying a beer. Of course, this reminds me of another “walked into a bar joke”…
A bear walks into a bar and sits down. He bangs on the bar with his paw and demands a beer. The bartender approaches and says “We don’t serve beer to bears in bars in Estes Park, Colorado.” The bear, becoming angry, demands again that he be served a beer. The bartender again tells him “We don’t serve beer to bears in bars in Estes Park, Colorado.” The bear, very angry now, says “If you don’t serve me a beer, I’m going to eat that lady sitting at the end of the bar.” The bartender, once again says “Sorry, but we don’t serve beer to bears in bars in Estes Park, Colorado.” The bear goes to the end of the bar, and as promised, eats the woman. He comes back to his seat and again demands a beer. The bartender says “Sorry, we don’t serve beer to bears in bars in Estes Park, Colorado that are on drugs.”
The bear says “I’m not on drugs.”
The bartender says, “Yes you are, that was a barbitchyouate.”
Oh come on, you know you laughed! My sincerest apologies to anyone I offended…
- Questions:
- What team logo would you paint on your garage walls?
- What’s your longest running streak?
- What’s your favorite “walked into a bar” joke?
Ha, I had no idea that happened in Estes. So close to where I live! In another town in Colorado a bear got into a car accident because he got into a car that had a PB sandwich in it…the door got stuck and, in trying to get out, the bear hit the emergency brake and the car crashed into another car down the hill.
That’s awesome about the blog rep!! Congrats!!!
Could you imagine looking up, and here comes a car racing toward you that’s driven by a bear? HaHa!
Love the VT stripe!! Awesome! And I loved the bear joke! Congrats on your top 100.
Thanks! The VT strip looks amazing in person! 🙂
I haven’t given running streaks much thought. I’d like to do one, but I’m not sure when.
Congrats on the much deserved honor of being in the top 100. I wish I knew how to put the little picture on the side of my blog. That’s why I could never do this for a living. I know SO LITTLE. It’s a miracle I can put my pictures on my blog and that I was able to change the background color a few months ago!
Love the VT stripes. 🙂 That had to make you smile bigtime!
Congrats to you, too! 🙂 I feel a challenge, so I’m going to try to walk you through adding the badge to your website (if you want)! I’ll send you an email.
I seriously doubt my running streak is any longer than a week because I’ve always taken at least one day per week off for rest… Maybe I’ve run ten days straight because I was not going to be able to run later that next week or something, but that would have been years ago!
And yes, the VT stripe is awesome! 🙂
OMG! I loooove your surprise! Your garage looks like the tunnel to Lane Stadium! You can never move, now, because your garage is too cool. Do you have to ask what logo I would paint on my garage wall?? 🙂
Congrats on making the top 100!
That bear in the bar in Estes Park is crazy! I’ve been to Estes Park, when my family visited my aunt, uncle, and cousins who live in CO. It’s a neat town! And the hotel where ‘The Shining’ was filmed is there… pretty spooky!
I thought you’d love it! 🙂
I have actually been to Estes Park this year; thankfully I didn’t run into the bear! Yikes! My longest streak is only 2 days. I don’t run every day, only 3 times a week. There was maybe once where I ran 4 times a week but, I couldn’t even tell you how long ago that was. More power to the people who run day after day. I heard about that story too, that is crazy. I couldn’t imagine running every day for 45 years!!! Makes me tired just thinking about it.
Can you imagine sitting in a bar drinking a beer, and looking up to see a bear walking into the bar? Glad you didn’t see this guy when in Estes Park!
I’m sure my running streak isn’t longer that 7-10 days… probably sometime when I was heading out of town and knew that I wouldn’t be able to run while I was away.