P.A.T.

When Pat has a new patient, he introduces himself like this "HI! My name is Pat and I am going to be your therapist. That is P.A.T...it stands for Pain And Torture." It is great to see the eyes of the newcomer get rather large and wary. He does explain that he really doesn't inflict any pain, he leaves that up to themselves!

PAT is training for the upcoming Crater Lake Marathon. And has ran himself out of one pair of running shoes already. So before Father's Day we went down to the shoe store to try on a pair of Nike AirMax 360. He loved them, but the major down fall to the shoe was that they were University of Oregon Green and Silver.

Sorry but a hard, fast Beaver fan was not going to wear Duck colors.

Then I remembered that I had a 20% off coupon for online orders. Home we went and PAT went to work finding his perfect shoe!

This is what he came up with....


And of course they are Oregon State Black and Orange!

Marathons

After Pat ran his first Marathon in 2003 he said that he would never run another. He was sick to begin with and I don't even know how he finished.

Fast forward 3 years ...he had heard about the Walt Disney World Marathon. This was supposed to be the Happiest Marathon in the World. So he tells me to sign him up. Mind you that I have been trying to get him to go to Orlando for many years and he just wasn't going to go for a trip to WDW.

We went, he ran and fun was had by all.


Before we left Florida, we even talked about going back in 2008, but those plans were nixed after our fiasco trying to get home.

After a cooling off period of several months, Pat decided he needed another goal. And Marathons seem to fit the bill.

You see he would love to have his PhD, but doesn't really want to go back to school. He would love to move & change jobs, but that isn't going to happen for at least 6 more years. So now his thing is Marathons.

He thought about going back to Florida and running Disney again, but I'm not so sure I want to head back so soon. And he really hasn't pushed for me to sign him up.

So while we were at the Henley High School Booster Auction last night he bid on, and won, an entry into the Crater Lake Rim Run. This is supposed to be a tough race: steep hills and altitude.


His ultimate goal is to run Boston....

but he has to let his age catch up to his time to qualify!