Gil Can Run!A blog on Running and all the crap that runs through my head while doing it

Oct 11th Cool down day

I completed the medical study, and then did a whole bunch of nothing. Well not really, I got some stuff at the hardware store and did some work to the house. Oh, and got a new toaster oven for the fam. Originally, I was going to do a little recovery run, but I’ll run a couple miles tomorrow.
While I was driving around, a song came on and I was thinking about what I accomplished yesterday, taking 34:46 off my PR in one race, and how my diet is related to that, and how much better I feel about it due to my diet. So, I’m still not saying everyone should be a vegetarian, do what you are comfortable with in your life, and what you need to be healthy. This is a song and a band I’ve enjoyed for many years, and it just took a long time for message to really take hold with me.

And the lyrics for the punk rock challenged:

Man’s best friend is beautiful and affectionate an ideal pet.
Cats are the same, we make up their names and our love for them is real.
Listen up, I gotta ask it, how can we be so cruel?
You say you care, that’s a lie.
My true compassion is for all living things and not just the ones who are cute so I do what I can.
I wanna save lives and I’ve got a plan.
Under the table he’ll eat your dinner like the veggies we can’t stand.
What kind of meal would he make?
We don’t want to ask it.
Tradition is all that keeps him alive.
Listen up, I gotta ask it, how can we be so cruel?
You say you care, that’s a lie.
My true compassion is for all living things and not just the ones who are cute so I do what I can.
I wanna save lives and I’ve got a plan.
Why am I so upset?
Don’t even own a pet.
I am not trying to press my will.
I am not the first to say…
“Thou shalt not kill”
Full is all, is all you want to feel.
We eat to stay alive, but it’s their lives we steal.
I think we’d like to change, but most of us are stuck, that’s why cats and dogs have
all the luck.

Thanks Civ. And to everyone else, have fun, keep running, and remember, if Gil can run, then so can you.

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