No, it's not just something that your 90-yr-old grandfather says...they're a real thing! Actually, they're the fruit of the Bois'd'Arc tree, a north Texas native, they look like green, lumpy/knobby grapefruit, and they practically cover the ground this time of year! Especially on/around the trails I like to take - where they fall from the many trees lining the creek. As I jog past, I remember the old M*A*S*H episodes where Colonel Potter yells "Horse Apples" in response to Hawkeye and B.J.'s antics, and it makes me smile...
Today I had to walk past them, and felt just as frustrated as poor Colonel Potter. I put a kink in my own plans of moving all my runs this week up by a day in order to free up my Saturday morning. Foiled by a low (then dead) battery on my Garmin...and since I live & die by my Garmin on my training runs, I walked a short loop (1.6 miles) and finished early. So I'll do my normal Tuesday run tomorrow, will do Thursday's run on Wednesday and Saturday's run on Friday. Sounds like a plan!
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