Irv, we were never in Aisle 5

March 20th completed the final "long run" before the "Longest" run on April 18th.  This one was a 20 mile run from starting our house and down into Ipswich where the advance team (Matt, Maggie, Jimmy and Molly)picked Pam up.  The following weekend scaled back the long run and completed a 15 mile loop in Andover.  This past Sunday completed 11 mile run Andover to Reading.  This is now the midway point of  the planned 4 week taper period.  To Date have now completed 3 long runs of 20+ miles each.  This week looking at around 8-10 mile long run on the weekend with 3-5 miles daily during the week.  The week before the Marathon running will be geared to some fine tuning and getting the body such much needed rest. 

Took the whole family to REI to look for some new clothes to run in.  A nice enough gentleman, who was shopping with his family, approaches us and says, "I know I've seen these kids before I just can't place where."  Immediately, my thoughts turn to what type of ruckus this man was exposed to and if we owe him A.) an apology and/or B.) monetary compensation.  Could it have been Blockbuster with Jimmy and Maggie arguing over the cinematic merits of Strawberry Shortcake vs ToyStory while Molly tossed the new release movies in the air as if she were a pizza maker tossing up some freshly made dough?  Perhaps it was Stop N Shop where we have to shop with the cart with the plastic car attached and all 3 kids like to pretend they are in a fire engine and shout, "move out of the way there's a fire"  I tell the kids falsely reporting a fire is a crime but undeterred they keep on shouting, it's out of my hands now.  I begin thinking that please please wherever this man is about to say he remembers  the kids from that is wasnt on my duty.  Jackpot! He says he remembers seeing the kids at Jordan's Furniture and I never was at Jordan's recently.  Brazenly, I say "so what kind of disturbance did you witness at Jordan's?"  He tells me none at all that he just remembers how cute they were and how well they were playing.  I nod my head and agree that they are pretty good kids, occassionally there's some agita but overall they're pretty good.


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