Go, you chicken fat, go away!

Another dark and cold morning.  I left at 6:02 am, so I knew it would start getting light out on my run some time.  It was dark up until I got to University.  I hadn't seen anyone.  I finally saw a lady walking two beagles.  She said good morning to me before I said it to her.  Shortly after that I saw another guy walking his dog on the other side of the Canal.  I waved right as he turned his head to look at his dog.  I didn't think he saw me, but he waved back with his head still turned away from me like a cool cucumber.  I got to Main Street.  On the northwest corner of the intersection of Main and Higley is a tree that I call the bird tree.  There's always hundreds of birds in it.  You can't even see them, but you can hear them.  I heard a few and I waved my arms at it as I ran under it.  I woke the rest of them up.  The sun hadn't quite broken the horizon yet, but I could see pretty good now.  My last two miles were faster than my first two even though it didn't feel like it.