10k Turkey Trot

For the runners out there that read my blog and thought I had stopped running.  I haven't.  I've updated a couple of new PRs, including today's 10k.  (The 5k PR wasn't from a race, just a whim one day to see how fast I could do it on my own.)  I haven't done a whole lot of speed work since the spring and, though I've kept my long run at 10 miles, I've been doing more cross-training/upper body toning work than running, so I guess it was a bit of a miracle that I was able to shave almost a minute off of my 10k time from two years ago.  (I didn't run the turkey trot last year, because at 6 weeks post-partum, I still had too much pain to run that distance.)  With that difference in time, I was able to crack the top 10 of my age group and placed 9th out of 137.  Not bad considering I wasn't feeling particularly fast or light this morning, in fact I felt a bit winded.  Oh, and it was a bit windy at times.  Happy thanksgiving!

Things I Have Learned From Watching Too Many Episodes of the First 48

1.  Getting away with a crime in a poor neighborhood when drugs are involved is way easier than shows like CSI would have one believe.  


2.  If one does not get away with a crime under these circumstances, it is often because of sheer stupidity.


3.  This idea that anyone can be a target of random murder is also highly exaggerated by tv shows.  Not that it's impossible that someone you've never met nor seen could jump out of the bushes and attack you, it's just extremely unlikely.


4.  A lot of crimes are solved because of crimestoppers' tips and not detective brilliance.  So that means luck.


5.  Often I feel that first degree murder is too harsh a sentence, especially for young Black males (since 90 percent of the time they are the demographic charged.)  I guess that's why I would make a horrible cop, lawyer, juror, or judge.  I am just too willing to believe/have too much empathy for their stories.


6.  Whatever happened to the right to an attorney?!!!  Hardly anyone invokes this right.  I guess that's also why I would be a horrible investigator- the outright lies they tell the suspects to get confessions make me pretty bilious.


Okay, those are my observations... for now.... I still have about 90 episodes on Netflix to go, ha ha.  


Soon to come, as soon as I feel like writing it, "To Pre or Not to Pre:  What's the Deal With Pre-School?!!!!"

From the Land of Football Flags and Bumper Stickers

Here are a couple of gems:


1.  Bumper sticker that read:  Pageant Mom.  License plate:  Tennessee.  Gee, quelle surprise.


2.  Bumper sticker with a confederate flag that read:  Heritage, not Hate.  Hmm, isn't that like saying Swastika:  Economics, not Eradication?  Just sayin'.