Its been a day

I did my 3 mile tempo run thing on the gerbil-mill-o-joy. 1 mile at 9:00, 1 mile at 8:00, .5 mile at 7:15, and .5 mile at 9:00. 25:26 (I think) for the final time. I actually have a real plan for how to do these, but forgot to bring it with me or at least look at it before I left for the gym.

Did my lower body weight training. I even did the calves and shins again which may have been a mistake because I did them two days ago. We’ll see.

I did some last minute Christmas shopping today, which was a joy because we had about 10 inches of snow and half the roads aren’t plowed. Our road is certainly not plowed because 1) its dirt, and 2) we all have trucks and who needs a plow when you have a big honkin’ 4×4, ya big woos.

Oh and fun. I was waiting to pull out of one of the shopping plazas onto a heavily traveled, unplowed, 4 lane road, but the guy in front of me wanted to turn left. There was alot of traffic from the mall and the road had so much snow that cars were having trouble finding the lanes. There was a sign that said no left turn, and he eventually gave up and turned right. I followed behind him because we were lucky to get a break in the traffic. Suddenly, Mr-I-want-to-turn-left does a U-TURN in the middle of the road, sliding sideways into two lanes because he 1) doesn’t know how to drive an SUV in the snow and 2) is a MORON for doing an ILLEGAL U-TURN in the middle of a FOUR LANE ROAD!

I tried to slow down but it was no use on 3 inches of slush packed snow, even with the antilock brakes and 4 wheel drive on, and especially since he was spinning around so fast. I was like being on the spinning tea-cup ride at the amusement park where you are sure you’ll hit another cup. This time I did. I managed to turn away just enough so that my left front bumper corner hit his left rear bumper corner, which actually helped to spin him around so he was pointing in the direction he wanted to go. I guess he agreed because he TOOK OFF!

Just hit the gas and kept on going.

I pulled over thinking he was going to turn around. Nope. Cars are freaking out because I’m stopped on this road where they can’t maneuver around me without sliding in the slush, so I did my own u-turn and went looking for him. Nowhere to be found. Loser. I called the cops and they said unless my vehicle was damaged, I didn’t need to file a report. No damage that I can see. What a jack-ass that guy was. If you are out there reading this Mr-I want-to-turn-left-no-matter-who-hits-me, you need to screw your brain on tighter, its a little loose.

Was anyone else out driving in the snow today?

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