So I’m training for a marathon, and Sundays are my long run days. Today I got a bit of a late start because I decided to watch the Third Man at the Burg Kino with a new friend of mine. If you’ve never seen an old movie on the big screen, I highly recommend it.

Anyway, as I was chugging through my 10 miles along the Donaukanal Sunday night I had a completely random memory dating back 3 years ago. I remember foolishly deciding to run up to Kahlenburg in the snow with Sonja Gassett and Dave Jacobsen. I say foolishly because I ended up tearing a tendon in my foot and could barely walk for a few weeks.

At a specific spot along my run(the exact spot I had this conversation 3 years ago), I had a very vivid memory of telling Sonja that I had found pinto beans in Vienna and that they were called Wachtelbohnen. Literally “quail beans.”

Then I read on the news today that Dick Cheney shot a guy while he was quail hunting…

Coincidence?