​​​​​​Because humor is funnier when you know it's true.

Marathon madness

My girlfriend was relatively new in her sales job, and always looked for opportunities to make good impressions with customers and coworkers alike. 

She decided it would be good to participate in an upcoming road race, entering her very first half marathon. One day she was talking with her boss, who happened to mention that he was running in that same event. She immediately seized on the opportunity to make points with her boss and told him that she was running in the half marathon! He was suitably impressed, even though she had planned to walk the distance! She had gotten caught up in the moment and thought it sounded better if she said she was running, even though she had no intention of doing so. 

This is where I come into the story, as I had entered to run that half marathon. As it turned out, this race gave computer chips to all runners and walkers to track their race times. And so, as in a crazy sitcom scenario, my girlfriend came up with a “solution” to her problem. She would simply switch chips with me! 

I ended up completing “her run” in around 2 hours and 10 minutes. She walked to complete “my run” in 4 hours and 30 minutes. When she returned to the office, her boss gave her accolades for running such a good first time. And me? Everyone asked what was wrong with me that I had run such an incredibly slow race. I just had to suck it up. The things we do for love.

- Anonymous