That's not true actually, I have lots of great friends from the running group still here- last night we had pizza on a felucca and tonight we're off to Nabil's house for a "Twist Party"- at first we all thought it was a Twist-er party, (as in: left foot blue, right hand yellow) but apparently not... (with so many different languages in the group, misunderstandings and mistranslations like this happen ALOT!)- we actually have to dress in costumes from the era of 'The Twist'- the early 60's dance phenomenon...it should be a fun night!So this morning we did a really cool run- Joe, a Maadi Runners Alumnus who is now living in Islamabad and also happens to love history, is here for a couple of weeks, so using this book he designed a slow run through Maadi with stops along the way to tell us about some of the old buildings and houses in our neighbourhood. It was a great tour- he knew so much and I discovered some things that had been right under my nose this whole time but usually I don't notice because of the traffic and chaos that consume the streets every other time but early friday morning. Even more exciting (for me) than the history lesson was the fact that I ran/walked for over an hour and my foot didn't hurt!!!! I was definitely aware of it, but I wouldn't call it pain-- I am going to rest it tomorrow and maybe try another short run on Sunday. I'm SO glad- the last few days have been torture!
So thrice-daily blog posts aside, I think I am becoming a bit of a 'social media' junkie...this morning I asked if anyone else had seen pictures of Lance Armstrong's new baby- when nobody had and they asked me how I knew, I said- "oh, I follow him on twitter". Then later on someone else asked when I was going to email my Copenhagen pictures to the group-- my exasperated reply "Nobody does that any more, aren't you on Facebook, Flickr, Snapfish, picasa, photobucket or Yfrog?" There is definitely a time and a place for such uber-connectedness- case in point: the english guy who knocked himself out while running and tweeting, but it seems like these technologies aren't going anywhere anytime soon so I guess we'd better get used to them, and better yet, embrace them...
The other thing that's getting more sophisticated apparently, are socks-
I got this pair in Copenhagen and you actually have to make sure you put them on the correct feet! I haven't run in them yet, but I'm sure if I'd had them during the race I would have knocked that 45 min off my time, easy!
Why, yes, that IS me you saw with the British Ambassador in the Egyptian society magazine (from the fundraising gala a few weeks ago).
Okay, that's all for now, have a great friday, I'll see you here again soon, if I don't, tweet, IM, SMS, wall post or poke you in the meantime ;) xoxo C
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