my local running shop...

[skhill]

... is awesome!!

It's a family business, and went I went there last Friday to get new shoes, I happened to have the patriarch helping me. I told him what I wanted (less than $100 preferably, no pink, and hopefully more durable than what I had been wearing). He glanced at my feet, popped down to the stockroom, and came back with 4 pairs he thought might work. They were all good, and my favorite after my test jog in the parking lot just happened to be the end of the last year's model, and 25% off. Awesome.

We were talking about the local racing scene all the while, and I found out that our first ever local half-marathon is happening in the spring! WooHoo! It's actually going to happen! Unfortunately it's on Palm Sunday, which is a pretty big problem for me (unless I get a whole lot faster by then, I'll be going straight from the race to church without a shower or change of clothes). But that's ok, I'm often scruffy on Sunday mornings anyway....

[colby]

I would call that going to church twice. Once outdoors, once indoors.

[OakLeaf]

I would call that going to church twice. Once outdoors, once indoors.

So would Katharine Jefferts Schori, Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church.