I want to tell you a story about Grinch.
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One time he barreled through a herd of wild turkeys to pee on a lamppost. He did not notice the turkeys.
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Another time, the dogs were resting in a baseball diamond between 40-mile runs and he barked WAKE UP LET’S GO so many times that he had to go in exile by the fence so that his teammates could sleep.
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And he likes pulling things! Which is what we took him to do the other night.
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We’re using a wheeled cart for dryland training, since we don’t have snow right now.
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Historically, Grinch has had some issues with the cart.
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But the other night, as we set out, everything seemed great. Grinch ran with Jenga, galloping down the railroad grade. They were having a blast.
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After about a mile and a half, I figured we’d gone far enough, so I stood up and turned the cart around so we could head back the way we’d come.
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Grinch was ready to run. “ABBWABABAA!” he screamed.
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Guys, we’d been running in one direction. And now we were facing the other direction. It was very confusing.
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To be clear, there is no brake on the cart. The only reason it wasn’t moving is because Grinch wasn’t running.
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Jenga was like “omfg Bler tell me this is a joke”
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I kept thinking that Grinch would figure it out.
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After a solid 20 minutes, during which time Jenga aged ten years, Grinch suddenly started running. I think that we basically waited out the span of his short-term memory so that he no longer recalled having turned around.
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And that, my friends, is the story of how Grinch saved the day and got us home.
The End.
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