"Yeah...I am that girl you see running EVERY DAY....

multiple times around town." I am. Yup....that's me. That crazy gal who runs around and around and you might think is lost, is me. But alas...man at the post office and lady at the Halmark store, do not fear, for I am not insane, just going about my usual two mile loop. "Now why would you run in a loop like that?" Well...for starters, I really like the familiarity of one route because I know if I don't get to a certain spot by a certain time on my stop watch, than I am going too slow and need to pick it up. Next, I am relatively new to running these distances, so if I get hurt, I don't want to have too far to crawl home. And finally...I am nosy. I like going by these people's homes multiple times because they are interesting. I know that the guys from the nursing home will be out at 3:35pm and will sit out for a half hour and chat about the weather and how they had to walk up a hill both ways to school. I know that the lady who works at Hannaford will be visiting her mum at around 4:15 when she gets out of work. I know that SAME F-ing kid on Lincoln Ave will be riding his bike on the sidewalk AGAIN and he will be wobbly and shaky and I will desperately fear a collision so much that I actually go to the other side of the road at the mere sight of him. And finally, I get to listen to the sounds of my own home as I run by. Our happy little home with Mikki saying something so loudly I can hear her 3 blocks away, or sometimes I can hear Katie happily babbling, or not so happily as is sometimes the case. I run by, and do it again, and again, and again, and this Saturday, I will run by 6 times. So, people of booming metropolis that I call Rumford...Yes...it is me...the girl who runs. Don't worry, if you miss seeing me on the first or second lap, I will catch you the next time around.