In All Seriousness

So I'm running, its only been about a mile and I've got a mile to go. I'm being careful because I'm wearing new shoes. In fact its my first run in my new shoes. I'm not really sure which building at Penn plays chimes, but at 6pm they go off in a ruckus. Every time I hear them they are a different song. Tuesday last week was All God's Creatures Great and Small. Wednesday America the Beautiful. Thursday, the theme from Chariots of Fire. 

Here I am running down hill through Penn's campus with a bunch of summer students and Professors walking past, and what song has to come on? Choriots of Fire. A huge part of me wanted to start running in slow motion. Instead I was laughing so hard I almost had to stop running. All I could think about what everyone suddenly breaking out in slow motion. I got scowled at my some Older Man, who obviously did not get the joke.

Saturday I go to a 5k race with some friends. 5k means 3.1 miles. First of all it was a small race and I find it funny that I was the first lady across the finish line. Second the only person who actually ran the full race was the leader, because the rest of us got lost. And perhaps the weirdest thing was that the leader, ran in 16mins and was barefoot. And what am I thinking about the whole race? Chariots of Fire of course.

Yesterday I take a long run, 6miles to the Art museum and back. The whole time I'm concentrating on my running and my new shoes. I'm trying to pace myself and not get hit by cars. It was actually a great run (even through I had to walk about a mile of it in the middle, and my legs felt like rubber for the last 2 miles). I'm not even thinking about Chariots of Fire. It has not crossed my mind for 2/3s of the run. And then I pass this couple (college age), and what do they start singing? Yep, you got it.

So this morning while I'm planning out my running schedule for the next week, leading up to a 10mile run this Saturday. I'm really hoping that I don't hear Chariots of Fire again for a while. Then I check my email, and guess what's coming via Netflix...