Today is Canada Day! Canada for me is a totally awesome country. The Canadians gave us Neil Young, k.d. Lang, Gordon Lightfoot, Burton Cummings, Paul Anka, Celine Dion, and Joni Mitchell just to name a few singers and guitar players. Jim Carrey, Mike Myers, John Candy, Martin Short, Catherine O'Hara, Leslie Nielsen and Phil Hartman are Canadians that have supplied laughs to all of us. Labatt Blue and Molson Canadian are religious experiences to many. And what else has Canada done for us sports fans? Anyone? Anyone? Bueller? Hockey! Canada has also given me some of the closest friends in my life right now and most of them run. Tonight was a six miler courtesy of week 3 of the Hal Higdon Intermediate 2 Marathon Training Program. I couldn't go this morning. I thought about it all day. If it wasn't for the blog I would have blown it off. Me in my Ken Anderson, (friend from Canada) approved hockey shirt. I wanted to listen to Joni Mitchell but it was too mellow.
I wanted to listen to Neil Young but I wasn't angry. Then I saw a posting by one of my favorite people Joan Howieson and her new dog Fiona and Pet Sounds by the Beach Boys was it! Perfect in fact. I was making the list of the famous Canadians above in my head as I moved down the hike and bike trail. One guy started singing, "Oh Canada" as I came towards him on the trail. Great anthem, hardly original by the gentleman but cute. The Pet Sounds album songs brought back memories of high school and Kathy Kilcoyne breaking my heart freshman year right around the time my brother Phil and I watched the Grey Cup game on tv with my favorite CFL team the Hamilton Tiger Cats that got fogged out with a quarter to go. Just the sounds of the Beach Boys brought back memories my brothers and I playing Eagle Sports table top hockey when the only two teams you could get were the Canadians and the Maple Leafs. OMG! I forgot. Canada gave us Anne Murray. I love her. "Shadows in the Moonlight." "Now and Forever."
My guess is your wondering what this has to with running. This is the stuff that was going through my head tonight, while I was on a run that I had been thinking about all day that I was looking for an excuse not to do.....and ended up loving the run because of your interest and the accountability of the blog. Thanks for caring. In the words of Brian Wilson, tonight from a running perspective, "God Only Knows What I Would Be Without You." Merci!/Thank you!
Go Ti-Cats, eh?
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