Folly or Feasible?

Today is Elle K’s birthday. 

Elle K is the friend crazy (sweet? gullible? stupid?) enough to have signed on to do the Disney Princess half marathon with me in March. The friend who may or may not be regretting it just yet.

Despite Disney’s e-mail offer to let me buy a pink “Princess in Training” running skirt for $40, I thought I’d get her something a little lower key.

The card was easy; anything referencing going out for drinks — one of our favorite pastimes — would do. Cheap token friend gifts are harder to come by in the grocery store at 7 am, though. (That’s a token gift, not something for a token friend, by the way...)

Then I stumbled on the perfect thing: the Snickers Marathon protein bar.

My all-time favorite candy bar masquerading as health food? Who knew?

And at $2.19 it was a bargain, as token friend gifts go.

For accuracy’s sake I did need to alter it a bit. We are, after all, only doing a half marathon. The packaging made it tough but it was White-Out to the rescue. Well, technically, “buff out”, since I use it on manila file folders. White would have coordinated better, but you work with what you have.

And if I’d had a white out pen that would have been better still.

Not shockingly, it came out looking pretty much like the picture. Illegible. But we have the same odd sense of humor and I knew she’d get it.

I got an email from her this morning: Eating my snickers "protein" bar for breakfast — this is not right. There's no way it is remotely good for you or really anything other than a candy bar. I'm lovin' it!

Me: Sounds like I'm gonna need to stock up on those. All in the name of training, you understand...

Elle K: The sacrifices I make to maintain this shape! Eating protein bars... really... Speaking of — I'm scheduled for a check up on Monday — what timing. Guess he can tell me whether my training plan will kill me...

There are certainly times when I feel like this running thing will kill me, but now that I know I get to eat Snickers and call it part of my training? I’m all in.