Day 70 – The Day the Ceiling Leaked
Some days, training feels like an uphill battle. Other days, it feels like you’ve been politely but firmly escorted off the battlefield entirely. Today was one of those days. The Morning Mishap My alarm clock, which has one job, decided today was the day it would explore a more interpretive approach to timekeeping. The result? I woke too late for my planned morning run. No problem, I thought. It’s Friday—I’ll just run after work. A minor inconvenience, but manageable. The Afternoon Disaster This is the part of the story where fate, having been briefly ignored, reasserts itself with enthusiasm. Kelly rang me in the afternoon with news that is never good: water was coming through the living room ceiling. If there is a phrase more likely to strike fear into the heart of a homeowner, I have yet to hear it. And so, my post-work run was immediately downgraded from ‘essential training’ to ‘not even in the top ten most pressing concerns of the day.’ The priority instead became finding the stop...