Nightmares vs Dreams

My dream is to be able to run in my first running event and stay above the curve, but last night I had another dream. To be a little more accurate, it bordered on being a nightmare.

Years ago, in my early days of deejaying, I would sometimes have these dreams where anything that could go wrong would. From music equipment that wouldn't work to me not be able to find the next song to put in the mix.

In my dream last night, I was running in the road race and everything seemed to be going good until I got to near the midway mark. Along the route there were these race officials that were wearing like linesmen jerseys. They were there to make sure that the participants stayed on course.

For the most part I remember being alone in the run; there were other runners but I was alone in the run. The course seemed to take a turn into an apartment building that had tons of stairs. When I was at the top I noticed other runners down below so my goal was to get to where they were. That's when things got really interesting.

As I continued along the course, every once in awhile I would see these linesmen and figured I was going the right direction. I kept thinking to myself I should have pre-ran the course, but it was too late for that now.

I was closing in on some other runners ahead of me. As I caught up to one of them I asked them what race they were running fully expecting them to say either 5K or 10K. To my horror one of them said the hockey run and that's when I knew I was in trouble.

Way off course and and in no hope of catching the original group, that's when I was saved by waking up.

It is comical in nature and I don't fear it actually because those dreams that I used to have about deejaying almost always led to one of my best nights of spinning. So maybe my nightmare will lead to my dream of setting a new personal best in my first ever YMCA Road Race.