Today was shoe buying day. At Performance Footwear you get half off the purchase of the second pair today. I got two pair of my Asics Kyano 13's. They even gave me my Arizona Roadracers discount on the first pair. Can you tell which pair I've worn for around 400 miles?
Since I was up near Tempe Town Lake and it was a gorgeous 65 degrees out, I decided to take a fun 3 mile run. It went like this - slow, slower and slowest. And I had a blast running along the lake to the east dam. Town Lake is a man made lake between two inflatable dams. It's in the river bed of the Salt River or Rio Salado. Yeah, our rivers are usually dry. It takes lots of rain or snow up in the high country for us to have water in the river. Weird, I know. So, the good folks of Tempe decided to fill their part of the river up with - Water.
During my run I thought that they should have a Dam to Dam Race. It would be about a 4 miler. I think I might just organize one for the Tumbleweed Running Club. Heck, it should be a Dam To Dam To Picnic Run. We can do a potluck and eat in the park. Dam It!, I think I'll do it. It's a Dam fine ideal. I do like dam jokes.
If you click on the map below, you'll see the dams at either end. The west one is barely in the photo, the east one is right past the Y. The U shape is Sun Devil Stadium on the campus of Arizona State University. The parking lot of the stadium is the finish lines for the PF Chang's Rock and Roll Marathons.
7 comments:
That is a dam fine idea you have there. Congrats on the new shoes...love that store. Did you see that Road Runner Sports opened at the new Tempe Market place? I hope it doesn't hurt business for Performance.
Nice shoes and bird!
Nice shoes, Pat.
There's nothing better than new running shoes on sale! Hooray! I think you might have something there with the dam to dam run! They should call it "Pat Monahan's Dam Run."
The turkey looks delish, shoes way cool, but did you say INFLATABLE dams? Now that's weird!
Dam, that sounds fun!! Have you heard me talk about Dam to Dam in Iowa?? It is one fine event with 8000 of my closest friends, about 12 miles. You're invited :D
Girls did a fab job with the bird!! How nice to have a relaxing Turkey Day.
Good idea to load up on shoes for that price! I need a new pair for the cold winter weeks ahead, I’m thinking of a trail shoe for more warmth!
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