A Seltzer Mile Was a Mistake

For my birthday, we did a beer mile on a college campus. Allison doesn’t drink, so she did a seltzer mile instead: four warm seltzers and four laps. It turns out that’s way harder than a beer mile. She explains why, and it involves six total burps and a lot of regret. I ran 6:43 and spend some time thinking about whether I could get into the mid-fives if I actually trained for it.

We also tell the story of the night after our wedding. A foot of snow was sitting on my car, Allison was trying to be helpful, and she found the sunroof button. Allison talks about phone banking for the first time and how it’s less scary than you’d think. Mostly it’s just letting people know their voter registration is inactive. I talk about why I’m running Pinhoti 100 (I need a Western States qualifier) and my mantra for it: make every step count. Then we get into Halloween costumes, including Ella Vader, the grilled cheese sandwich, and a frontier dress that made a drama teacher think Allison had joined a cult. Plus a quick correction on La Llorona and the stone tape theory.

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