Bonjour from France!

Just wanted to pop in and say hi, though I don’t have many good running stories.  Running in Paris has been interesting.  I’ve mainly stuck to the Touilleries Gardens (right outside the Louvre, across the street from my hotel), because I can go as fast as I want and not have to wait three billion hours to cross the street, and not worry about running into people/getting stuck behind people on said street…Yeah.  A lot of people run in the Touilleries, but THEY’RE ALL SO SLOW!  And all the French people at my Dad’s conference say to me at dinner, “Oh we saw you jogging!” and Of course I give them a polite smile, but inside I’m thinking “wtf I was doing 7:30’s that’s NOT jogging…???”.  So I’m starting to think that the French are JOGGERS, not RUNNERS.  lol.  I had one good run with a couple of British men my first day here-they were training for a marathon and we all had a good laugh at the slow Frenchies.

Other than that, I’ve run along the river, crossed the Pont Alexandre a couple billion times, and I go into this park near the Grand Palais to buy a banana for my postrun snack (hotel breakfast closes at 10-I got yelled at TWICE by the cleaning lady for snagging a handful of cereal from the cereal dispensers after my run, and ever since I’ve just stuck with the banana).  They guy at the snack stand knows me now-today I ran up and he was like “banana for you!” and handed me a banana. Lol.

I haven’t run longer than 45 minutes, but seriously? I spend the rest of my day on my feet WALKING everywhere, and I end every day completely WIPED, so I don’t really feel the need.  

So yeah, Paris is fun but I want to get out of the freaking gardens and go home and do a nice tempo on the wide, relatively empty, tourist-free roads of good old collegeville PA. 

 

Vive L’Etat Unis!