As yet another marathon is approaching, I cannot help but wonder if my fellow running buddies have as bizarre marathon-mares as I do in the days before a race. After the typical dream, I wake up in a sweat with an accelerated heartbeat (as if I have, indeed, been racing). A few of my memorable marathon-mares (which seem to have some common themes...):
1) I am looking for the restroom during a race and end up running through a shopping mall to find a restroom, then I get lost. Then I wake up.
2) The marathon course goes through a shopping mall the size of the Mall of America, but all of a sudden the course markers disappear, and then I get lost. Then I wake up.
3) The marathon course goes through a hilly rural course and then enters an amusement park and runs into a haunted house/fun house. Remniscent of the video for "She's a Beauty" by The Tubes, I am trapped in said haunted house/fun house until I can answer some trivia questions. Things are chasing me. I run into an old lady that has been trapped in the haunted house/fun house for years. Basically I am lost. Then I wake up.
4) After getting lost on the marathon course (that wound through an outlet mall, kind of reminding me of the old Lawrence Outlets on the Kansas River) I finish the marathon. Biggest Loser contestants are standing at the finish asking what took me so long, since they finished in 2 hours. Then I wake up. (Note: This unfortunately, is the only marathonmare in which I actually recall finishing the marathon.)
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