Worth It

1. The Jogging Man

Today my legs had that I-ran-yesterday soreness that you get when you don't run often enough. So I walked a bit.

And as I walked and ran and walked and ran, I found myself passing and being passed by a man who was jogging slowly with a bit of a limp and a elastic support around his left knee.

He passed me on the pedestrian bridge. I passed him on the spiral ramp at the far end when I started running again. And I figured that was the last I'd see of him.

2. Kissing Trudy

With about one mile to go, I saw Trudy coming from the other way. She spotted me first, and when she caught my eye, we moved off the path and stopped to talk. We agreed to meet back at the stretching area.

Just then, the man with the knee support came jogging by again.

See you at the end, Trudy said.

Ok, I said.

We kissed. She went one way. And I went off the other.

3. That One Was Worth It

I saw the walking man ahead. He was swinging his arms, and his head was tipped down a bit as it had been when I passed him on the bridge.

As I came alongside him, I looked over. He turned his head to look back at me. (You don't look over at someone running next to you unless you've got something to say.)

What can I say? I keep getting distracted! I said.

He laughed and said, Yes, but I bet that one was worth it!

Ohhh yes.

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