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Fort Collins

The strange case of the flying shoe: my 'welcome back' 5k

Posted by simon on 3/17/2008 on simon's blog

I had a weird moment at the start of the Sharin' O' the Green 5k. I lined up in the front row, the gun went off -- and a yellow shoe came bouncing through the ranks. Now, blame the fact that I'd "just" got off the plane back from England or whatever, but for some strange reason I thought it was mine...

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It wasn't me, I wasn't there, I didn't run... OK?

Posted by simon on 8/10/2007 on simon's blog

There's some guy out there using my body.

He looks just like me, but he runs like crap.

He was at it again last night in the Mountain Avenue Mile in Fort Collins; a perfectly straightforward, straight, fast, trending slightly downhill, Downtown Mile, which he completely screwed up by going out WAY too slowly.

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