AM: (8.5 miles, 1:14:46). Drove to a park that had access to the Spring River Trail, a 7 mile trail. Bummer is that many of the trails here are actually concrete (good for bikes, not so good for old legs). Anyway -- it was pretty nice, although it was cold. The night I got into town there was a HUGE thunderstorm (luckily it hit after I had made it to Fort Collins from Denver), there were hailstones and there were so many that on Thursday there were still "snowmounds" made of hail!! My rental car has thousands of little dents in it from the hail ... So Thursday morning it wasn't really "raining" but it was misting and by the time I finished my run I was soaked from the mist -- well that and all the huge puddles and tall wet grass meant my shoes were "sloshing" -- they did look cleaner then when I started the run though ;-). It was 48F and a little windy too, basically I am a cold wimp.
PM. A little warmer ... nice trail near Mom's house, this one has a great gravel path next to the bike path -- it is just not very long (probably 2 - 3 miles total -- made for 4 miles out and back from my Mom's house).
Very long day at the oncologists office. Good thing Mom likes her, she will be the one making her final days as painfree as possible. Still don't have a timeline, she needs to have a pretty yucky biopsy procedure first. Not curative, but we hope that some radiation will shrink the tumor enough that she can swallow and breath. Radiologist appointment tomorrow.
We spent the evening with my cousin ... it was nice.
I hope you are all doing well. | 