With all its sham, drudgery and broken dreams...

4:40 am  74^{o -} 90% humidity

avg pace 9:08

splits: 10:05, 9:18, 9:20, 9:24, 9:09, 8:56, 9:01, 8:43, 8:19

beautiful moon

4:45 am   71^o - 90% humidity

recovery run  avg pace 10:15  

remembering how nice it is to run quietly in the moon light

4:40 am  69^o - 88% humidity

warm up, tempo, cool down

avg pace 8:47

4:40 am  71^o  89% humidity

8 miles- avg pace 9:29

saw a little pair of eyes reflecting back at me from the edge of the soybean fields...... I wasn't the only one up early today!

easy/recovery

5:30 am 10:27 avg pace  70^o    88% humidity

left headlamp at home on accident...ended up not even needing it.

beautiful moonlit morning

ran with Wyatt.  pretty uneventful for the first 14 miles.  our dog friend from last week wasn't out (what a relief).  more dead turtles this week, and a couple snakes squished on the road.

between 14 & 15, we came upon a lady & little girl on bikes.  they also had 2 large dogs that looked like pit bulls.  the dogs weren't on leashes.  when the dogs saw us, they ran away from the lady & girl, out into the road and right at us.  one of them came right at me.  I sprayed it.  the dog ran off, but didn't seem really bothered by the spray the way some dogs do when they get sprayed.  He trotted off and kept his distance after that.

The lady got so mad and started screaming and cussing at me for spraying her "friendly"  dog.  i just told her (as we ran by) that I was sorry, but I'd been bitten by "friendly" dogs before.  Wyatt said something to her too.  The lady just got more angry and threw down her bike and started screaming profanities at us.  She didn't chase after us, she just stood there screaming.  Wyatt had a few things to say back to her like, "you need to have them on leashes"  and  "look at you using that kind of language in front of your little girl." to which the woman's last comment was, as she screamed out loud at us (because we were pretty far away by then) "Well, look at you running; you look like skinny bit****."

We had to give eachother a high 5 and shout out "woo-hoo!"  Because we're so shallow that we love it when someone calls us skinny.

I don't think we'll be running down that road again for a couple of weeks.  This was our 3rd week on that road.  we go out & come back on it.  We've never even seen anyone on the road before, but from the looks of it, she couldn't have been too far from home.

Just as we finished our run, we came across a woman out running on the same road.  It is so rare to see any other runners.  We spoke with her shortly.  She is training for triathalons.  Very nice lady.  Good to see others out there enjoying the road. 

pace was a little faster than last week.  I hope we continue to improve in that department.