(The Stinky Drinkers are a band of runners in training for the Women's Running Magazine Women's Half Marathon in St. Pete November 22nd. We love to run…we love beer…and when we're done running, we love to toast our achievement with a pint! We hope you'll toast with us!)
Sunday's early morning run turned out to be a Stinky Drinkers best by happy accident. First of all, none of us was really willing to rise with the sun on a weekend, but Luis, our new training buddy, insisted that our 8:30 a.m. start time was unacceptable. So, four “stinkers” rose at 7 a.m., grabbed a quick power bar from an open convenience store and busted tail to Demens Landing to meet our new 8 a.m. start time.
And where was Luis? Nowhere to be found. SD Lisa called him, and he answered, promising to meet us along our route, but alas…Luis never crossed our path. The morning was uncommonly cool, so the SDs in attendance grumbled that a later start time would not have meant battling extreme heat. However, in the early stages of our run, we could not have predicted how our new shotgun would benefit us as much as it eventually would…..after nearly 10 miles.
This article appears in Aug 19-25, 2009.