Oaklawn Park/Levy Loop

I walked the Levy Loop tonight to keep my streak alive, and for no other reason. Tom Zaloudek and I spent the day at Oaklawn Park, where I lost $8.18, and had a ten-minute conversation with Greta Kuntzweiler. She came into the grandstand to watch the Fantasy Stakes, twenty feet from where Tom and I sat with Ray and Carol. She told me she started running again, and last October won the 35-39 age division in a 5K in Lexington, with a time of twenty-three minutes. Greta is not photogenic, but was as always lovely in person, as pretty as she was at twenty-eight. Tom participated in our conversation and later said, "Now I know why you had a crush on her." Tom and I drank a six-pack of Milwaukee's Best Light on the drive home, and then I walked the loop in 33:03. I'm tired.