A very unusual morning here: sunny, cold, and LOW HUMIDITY! We almost never get low humidity here. I find that the cold feels so much better when its dry cold, instead of the moldy, wet, damp inside cold that we usually get. Its glorious! I got to run this morning, too. 3.26 miles at an AP of 9:41 (splits 9:01, 9:39, 10:23, and 9:36). Not as slow as I would have liked, but it just felt great to run again - I have missed it. And, I wrote a couple of haikus while I ran (I don't write haikus when I don't run): A great color scheme; redwinged blackbirds without doubt win the prize on this. Marsh grass is disturbed, horrible honking ensues; a pair of loud geese. Another run this afternoon, probably in Seattle, since I'll be down there with my mother looking at some galleries. Its a marathon pace run, so I'll probably go to the Burke Gilman Trail, nice and flattish. Evening in the pitch dark: 4.89 miles at AP 8.48. This was supposed to be a run with some marathon paced parts in it, totalling about 30 minutes of MP running. It was really hard to tell if I achieved this because it was sooo dark out by the time I made it outdoors (we have few streetlights and NO lights once I'm on the trails), so I just did my best. The croaking of frogs! most certainly to anyone this means spring is here.
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