Running - I was at Shepared Park in Mesa AZ changing clothes in my car from work to run clothes. A couple was having sex in the car next to me. I waved, she waved back since she was on top and continue to go at it. They ignored my requests to join in though.

I found a full unopened bottle of Yeagermeister in NC on a run one day. Stashed that in the bushes did a threshold effort home, got in the car and drove back to retrieve it. Yeager goes well with breakfast I discovered.

Out riding one weekend day I see this guy running carrying a wooden pole with flags on it. About 3 hours later I'm still riding and I come across this same guy about 20+ miles as the crow flies from where I had previously seen him. I asked him what he was doing, where he was going. He was a native american on a prayer run. He basically was heading out on a 40 mile prayer run shirtless in shorts and sandals with no water or food carrying a wooden pole with flags. I almost crashed my bike when i realized how far he was running. If you took the roads from where I first saw him to where he was heading is a 4.5hr RT ride. As the crow flies about 40 miles running.

I used to ride on the reservation most of the time. I've seen a few other prayer runs since then. Every time I saw one, it amazed me that someone completely untrained is going to go run for about 40 miles carrying a wooden pole with flags.

Now every workout for me is a religious experience.

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Brian Stover USAT LII
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