There is this thing I have. I live in a foodie city. There is great food of so many varieties. Mexican, Chinese, pizzas, Thai, BBQ (include Vegan there), New Orleans style, Indian, the list goes on. Most all of it comes in vegetarian and vegan variants. I took my wife to a vegan Isralian place for her last birthday. This come to mind because we had Neapolitan pizza tonight. It was a night to eat food with someone else cooking. (Look up Otto’s Pizza in Portland, Oregon – not Maine – to get some flavors) To get to Otto’s I had to break my thing. “Don’t pass more than a couple of places with the same kind of food.” Tonight to get our pizzas I had to drive by three other pizza places. OK, they were not Neapolitan style pizza places, but still, they were all good pizza places ALL of them. We have had pizzas from all of them. But Otto’s is so good and we have not had one from them in, well, forever. The other Otto’s is up on Sandy. We have been there and greatly enjoyed their pizzas. But to get there, too many pizza places to pass. So I stretched my rule about where to go for food out. Now I am thinking about Bahn Mi. Ah, num num num. It makes for a great place to live.
Covid is one of those things with no end in sight. You have to keep going. And going and going and … well there is a ultra marathon race with a similarity. The BIG DOG BACKYARD ULTRA.
Like any other ultra race it attracts really fit runners. But in this race there is no defined distance. There is also people who hold the honor of being in first place. If your in your in first place. Until you quit. Then you are a DNF. Those two classifications are all they have. DNF or First. And that is the goal of the race, to keep going. Alert: I am of not the type of person who will or would do this thing. But watching people do this thing, to keep going until you cannot go again, that is something I would do. Watch these people who will keep running until they cannot is fascinating. They do not sleep. They eat when they get to the end of the loop. What motivates these people? So this October I will be watching them. The current record is 75 loops, over three days of running. Wow.
Keep you masks up dears.
— MichaelRpdx :: ih3k