Rainy Black Friday

Time: 30:05
Distance: 4 miles

Yesterday while flipping through glossy adverts in the Dallas Morning News Meagan and I saw that Walmart was offering a bike and a helmet for $50. You know what that is... a helluva deal. The catch was that the sale lasted only from 5-11 am. Meagan's mom is participating in an angel tree gift giving group and one of the items on her 8 y/o's wish list was a bike. I volunteered Meagan to get up to go get the bicycle Friday morning which meant I would be going along too.

When we arrived at the parking lot to Walmart at 5:30 am the place was packed. Meagan knew that she was going to see a bunch of her schoolmates from high school and I was looking forward to meeting them all. The place was a zoo as we made our way to the back of the store in search of the bike. Luckily the $50 BMX plus helmet was not on par with the Tickle-Me-Elmos of a few years ago and there were plenty in stock. After lugging the box to the checkout lines and chatting with half of Meagan's graduating class we made our way out of the fine shopping establishment.

Given our early morning excitement neither of us were motivated to run. On top of all that it was raining and Meagan is apparently Kenyan because she refuses to run in the rain. I proposed the idea of taking the day off but then J-Ned (Meagan's dad) informed us that he just put in a few miles on the roads. We were out the door for a short run that was just long enough for us to get poured on the last 3 minutes. After a quick shower I made/ate a feast of leftovers which included a turkey sandwich with all the fixin's and cherry pie.