AM: (9 miles, 1:19:43). Ran on the Arizona trail today -- parked near Snowbowl again but instead of running on the forest service road I ran on the trail. I did this primarily because it was SO windy today (30 mph gusts) I thought it would be better to be in the forest than on the exposed FS road. I climbed a lot -- probably 800-900ft (8000ft +), but it was gradual, and really not as bad as yesterday. All and all a very very pleasant run. PM: easy 4. Last night I looked outside and just started laughing. From across this 10 acre field comes a tractor, and on the tractor sat Greg (McMillan) and his 3 year old son, Angus. It was so cute. Greg uses his tractor to help clear the roads during the winter (last winter they got 53 inches of snow and they live sort of out in the country, so there is no snow removal service). Mainly, I think it was his dream since he was Angus's age -- to have his very own tractor ;-). This Sunday Greg and the owner of the house we are renting are having a tractor race ... boys will be boys ... sounds like fun (they are doing both a drag race and some sort of figure eight in the meadow). Happy Thursday bloggers. | 