Mileage for today: 34 Starting point is the Ronald McDonald House in Winston-Salem. Stopping point is in Salisbury, NC. Today's run is dedicated to the Ronald McDonald House in Winston-Salem. Sit, Ubu, sit! Good dog! Mindy at the Ronald McDonald House got a live TV interview set up this morning. Sounds great except for the fact that it was for the 6AM show - uggghhhh. My interview was with newswoman Nicole Ducouer from channel 12 (video) out of Winston- Salem. Then later that morning a crew came to the House for my departure and another interview bringing my media contact total to 22. And guess who did the interview? Yup, you guessed it, Nicole Ducouer. As far as I'm concerned, we're dating now - thank you very much. One thing about this video clip - I'm not very good at doing them. Anyway, the run went well today. Legs felt fresh and my Achilles felt the best it has felt in days. I do feel the need to come clean with one thing, the official/unofficial doctor of the Four Million Steps run, Dr. C, told me how to get my Achilles tendinitis under control . . . stretching. Damn it! I hate that crap. The weather was fairly cool for the third day in a row with starting temps in the low 40's and warmed up to around 60 by mid-day. I was able to add four horses to my petting zoo when I reached Lexington, NC, now I'm feeling bad about not getting near that llama I saw a while back. I totally stiffed the GPS on the run today. When going over the route, I was told to take Rt 150 right into Salisbury. The GPS wanted me to loop to the right a bit. I ignored everything the GPS wanted me to do and stuck to the 150 route. Every time I checked my mileage for the day, the GPS was nearly begging me to take a right. It practically got on its knees and pleaded with me, but I kept on keeping on . . . they say, you always hurt the ones you love. At one point a song I liked came on. Now normally I keep the volume low enough to hear traffic, dogs and whatever else might rear its ugly head. Sometimes a song comes on that I just have to hear loud and thus was the case with the song Save Me, by Shinedown. There I am, belting out the words to the song when out of no where comes this dog and I have absolutely no time to react before it was up on me. Lucky for me, he just wanted some attention. Add one golden retriever to the petting zoo collection. |
Day 44 - Greensboro, NC to Salisbury, NC
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