Father's Day a Week Early

Last year Jayda and Joshua ran together
This year she had to settle for me

Yesterday Joshua Jayda Cecil Riley and I jogged over to State St. to run the State Street mile. This is the event Jayda was born to run. She is the best dog out there by far. She stands at the ready while other dogs are sniffing about. She takes off like she has been shot out of the cannon. If only we could get her a better human. She pulled me 10 blocks and then as we approached the finish line, she started to dally. Not to be passed by last year's winner, I dragged her the remaining half-block to finish in 5:50. Good enough for second place dog with female human in tow. This benefit for the Victim's Witness Assistance Program is an annual favorite of ours. Joshua and I trade off who gets to try to keep up with Jayda. Really for me it is a matter of not being pulled so hard that I lose my footing and get dragged along on the asphalt. At the end of the morning, the whole family reassembles and we jog downhill to a finish line filled with muffins, Platinum Performance water bottles, apples and bananas. Today I am extremely sore. And not only because I had four fillings replaced today, but also because I paddled in an outrigger race on Saturday as a warmup for Sunday's big event.
In the afternoon Joshua and I rode down to see An Inconvenient Truth. Be inconvenienced. Do it for Riley. If you can't go see the movie, check out the website: climatecrisis.net. Don't wait.