One of the lesser known festivities from this past weekend’s Armed Forces Festival was a 5k/1-mile run early in the morning.
Running is something I would like to do when, say, I get more “right sized” for it. While that’s happening, and I’m at a point where I can say it is, I can do short distances, like the one-miler. That is if you call what I do “running.” I’m sure in some society the slow motion movement of one foot in front of another one is still called running, some society that doesn’t have a word for “jogging,” or “plodding.”
Nonetheless, I did it and you didn’t, so I can call it whatever I want.
If you are among the about 113 others who did do it, or the hundreds more who ran the one-miler or five-miler at Viking Fest, or the several hundred more who went running Saturday without wearing a number, I kind of apologize for writing like an Internet troll. We’ve seen a huge reduction of those since we put up the pay wall, so I thought I’d contribute.
The video is a 31-second movie of the one-mile race I ran. I shot it using the Lapse It ap on my iPhone.
And by the way, we stayed for the parade, which rocked.
The very use of the word BREMERTON in your headline is going to attract your so called “Internet trolls” of which I’m sure you consider me to be one them. But really now, are they trolls or just people commenting with opposing opinions, voicing their concerns, standing up and questioning the story, and offering up a different point of view? Was this “pay wall” erected to censor us “trolls”, to reduce our numbers, or was it put in place in order to maintain a profitable newspaper. As a “troll” I suspect it is the former rather then the latter.
I consider this on topic because this blog was tagged “Internet troll” but I could care less if you delete this post or not.
Some were trolls,, some were “just people commenting with opposing opinions, voicing their concerns, standing up and questioning the story, and offering up a different point of view.” It’s up to each beholder to decide which is which.
Steven Gardner
Kitsap Sun
Way to go Steven!
Yes, the parade did Rock this year.
I miss the “On Notice Board” 😉