A note of thanks to a local Runner

About 2 years ago my wife woke up one morning and said that she was wanting to try run a 1/2 marathon.  For some crazy reason I asked her if she wanted some company and maybe we could run it together.  Neither of us ran at all at the time, had not ran for many years.  I asked her where she got the idea and she mentioned a guy that we see run by our house almost every morning, no matter what the weather, he had being doing it for years.  The kids and I called him "Mr Tights" - he always wore the same black running tights, w/ purple shorts over the top, a hooded sweatshirt and he ran just about every day of the week.  The wife and I started running and later that Summer we ran the Slacker Half Marathon together - mostly all downhill and we beat our goal of doing it under 2 hours.  In our training before and continued running since, Mr Tights (real name Mike) has stayed the same, running almost every day - probably about at a 11 - 12 min mile pace - past our home.  He runs about 3 miles a day, always the same place and same pace, never runs in any races, seemingly always wearing those same tights.  Mr Tights - my family and I thank you.  You inspired us.

Yesterday I was up near Florissant and drove by the Florissant Fossil Beds, I parked beside the old 1878 homestead to eat a sandwich.  Saw a few of the local athletes carbing up - probably getting ready for the BTMR.

Local runners carbing up