The Hurley's Burger

Yup, I wolfed one down tonight when I went to meet some Coolrunning Montreal friends. Good burger, good Irish pub. I was going to refrain from alcohol tonight but I gave in ... Hey, what's a pub without a drink? So I got me a little cider to wash down that delicious cheeseburger with fried onions. Yum, yum.

When the food arrived, I whipped out my camera ... oh no! Batteries were dead! Drat, there goes my idea of blogging food and crazy runners with marathon medals.

Best question of the evening: "If you were to wear a costume to run a marathon, what would it be?"

Best answer of the evening: "The Planter's Peanut"

I told RunningGag he HAD to sign up for the NYC marathon lottery and I'd help him make the costume should he get in. Other people brought up Gumby and Pokey. I don't have a clue what I'd choose next. Mercury talked about his running colleague who ran the NYC marathon dressed as a rhinoceros. I remember passing him and thinking, geez, he's run 22 km faster than I already!

Great evening and for some reason, lots of tech talk about running and races ... "I like the racing, not the training" ... ha ha ha! GB sat quiet for a good chunk of the evening wondering if we were all lunatics. I told everyone of my next big charity endeavour which would incorporate GB and I doing Ironman in 2008 and the Cancer Society.

GB and I ran 6k around my neighbourhood tonight before supper - we're almost trained for that Ironman!

Spoke to KillerChops afterwards with whom I swam on Sunday. He told me he was sore from swimming. We had spent 45 leisurely minutes in the pool doing laps and drills with some talk rests. (I was happy that I haven't forgotten how to swim!)

I told him he wasn't obligated to do Ironman 2008 with us since he only just started running and swimming ... He told me jokingly that I didn't know him and I laughed and said "It's not that I don't think you'd be able to do it, I don't think you'd have the time to train!"

Dum, dum, dum ... Hmmm .... What does the future hold?