{"id":248,"date":"2015-07-18T09:00:39","date_gmt":"2015-07-18T14:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gilcanrun.com\/?p=248"},"modified":"2015-07-18T09:00:39","modified_gmt":"2015-07-18T14:00:39","slug":"a-nice-saturday-morning-and-a-surprise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gilcanrun.com\/?p=248","title":{"rendered":"A nice Saturday morning and a surprise"},"content":{"rendered":"

So I got my run in<\/a> just before the rain started, which was fortuitous. A 9:08\/mi pace (5:41\/km) is about a 4 hour marathon. So right about 8 am I run up to the corner of George St. and Church St. and who do I see on the opposite corner but my cousin and her boyfriend. Very cool. by that point all I could hear was my own heartbeat and breathing, but I did my best to yell out a conversation and remind her I still owed her a sweet potato burger. So Janet, I’ll get you that sweet potato burger!
\nSo yeah, that was really cool. I love being friendly when I run, but it’s also cool to run into people you know. There’s this one lady, almost always out on the weekends at the same time as I am, and she shuffles along, clearly she’s elderly and whatnot, but it’s so cool she’s out there pushing as hard as she can. Really inspirational. And she always smiles and says hi when we pass each other. It got me thinking of a meme I saw the other day, a 12 minute mile is just as long as a 6 minute mile, and it’s true. It doesn’t matter if you’re running a 3 hour marathon or a 5 hour marathon, you’re still running a marathon. That’s what matters, that’s what’s important!
\nThe only other thing today was Mathematics. The song by Yasiin Bey (Mos Def) from 1999. All I could think about was how President Obama and Senator Booker (and now some others) have started a conversation on criminal justice reform, among other things. And of course the national discourse we’re SORT of having on ethnic relations throughout the country. I don’t think we’re having a real conversation, because a large majority don’t understand the issue, but that’s alright, we’ll get there. Anyway, here’s this song, over 16 years old and still just a relevant. Just remember, back then there were 9 planets, until Neil DeGrasse Tyson wrecked it! (JK, it wasn’t really him, but he defends it, so I like to blame him).
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