Run #80 Just get up and do something

Date/Time: August 31 at 7am
Place: 63rd street beach, about 65 degrees
Mileage: a "just do something" 3 miles
Time It Took: 35:02, which included walking 3:30 of it
Pace: 11:40
Miles this week: 9.17 (sheesh what a joke)
Miles this month: 41.18
2008 Goal shot to hell: 464.27/1000

Thoughts/comments: Well. I did something. Thought tempted to turn on the tv and watch more Hurricane Gustav coverage, instead I just checked the most recent stats, threw my running clothes on and headed out the door. Nice morning, though the sun seemed especially bright. Surely the difference between running at 6am and 7am.

I can't quite call it, why I'm so mesmerized by Hurricane coverage. I will tell you this, I was the exact same way about Hurrican Katrina, well before it hit. I literally lost sleep. At the time I was sleeping on the couch because at 7 months pregnant with Zoe, it was the only semi-comfortable place in the house. So I would doze and then "oh! where is that hurricane now!" Hurricanes (and people) are fascinating. It's like abig wreck that you can't avoid. You know it's coming, you don't want to believe it. Some get out, some don't for a variety of reasons. And it's mind boggling for me to understand that some people don't leave b/c they don't want to. Even more mind boggling that some people can't b/c they have no money, no car, no nothing (that is very sad and makes me realize how lucky...no, how blessed I am.) I remember watching the random interviews before Katrina hit. This one woman with a small child on her hip was like "Yeah, we live on a shrimp boat out on the water....No we're gonna just ride it out, we've never had a hurricane hit directly, we've never run now, we have nowhere to go, we'll be ok," I always wonder what happened to her and that poor little baby with her risk-taking mother. And I still marvel at all the different lifestyles in our country. People live on shrimp boats?!

Well now that was a weird run-report.