I will be honest it didn't but I enjoyed humming Annie Lennox when I walk.
It was raining very hard when I got up this morning, it was the rain that woke me up. It was still dark outside and you could hear the thunder. The bed was so comfortable at Pat's house I did not feel like getting up and spending the day soaked and miserable. However, Bea came in the room and I got up and got ready.
Pat's mom made us scrambled eggs and a big bowel of mixed fruit. It was nice to eat something other then granola for breakfast. We bagged our feet and drove out to Hopkinton to start our day. Mrs. Ford dropped us off under the overpass of the Mass Pike. She offered to drop us off further down the road but we just thanked her and got out of the car. As we adjusted out ponchos I asked Alex if we could just liver under the overpass as trolls..he said no.
The rain stopped after about a half hour and I was very happy to get my poncho off. It smelled so bad, a nice combo of damp plastic and B.O. We kept the plastic bags on our feet for almost two hours. The plastic fogged up with condensation and I felt my feet get very sweaty and I was relieved when Alex stopped and took his off.
I was dreading today so much because of the rain but the weather turned out to ber very nice. It was a real nice pleasent walk and I enjoyed it a great deal. Natick was a nice part of town. Apparantly the 20th Vice President was from there, and they were all about him. (I dont even remember his name.) To pass the time sometimes Alex and I will talk like Woody Allen. A man was walking a Bassett Hound that was struggling to cross the street in time. We gave the dog a good Woody inner monologue. "Og god please wait don't run. My legs are not in proportion to my body. I think I stepped on my ear!"
We stopped at a Dunkin Donuts, the 38th one of the trip. There an old man was sitting there with a hat and jacket. He was staring out the window ans whistling to the radio. He made some small talk and complained about the heat. Why was he wearing a sports jacket I have no idea. Eventually his friend Bob came and together they talked and looked out the window and occasionally talked about women that walked passed. I cant wait to be that old guy. When they heard about our walk they werent really impressed, if anything they were amused. They wished us luck and we went off to finish the last 5 and a half miles of the day.
We ended in Wellsely Hills, ten miles from Fenway. It poured shortly after we stopped and I would have to say this was probably my favorite day. Alex and I did some good Top 5's today and the day went by kind of fast. 10 more miles tomorrow then were done...kind of weird.
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