Go, you chicken fat, go away!

Hot holy hand humid!  (I just wanted every word of that sentence to start with 'h."  I really meant, 'holy hot AND humid!")  It was time to retire my other pair of Mizunos this morning.  If it wasn't for that and the fact that I have a NEVER QUIT attitude, I would have quit. 

As I was running down Broadway, I looked down one of the side roads.  A lady waved at me.  It wasn't a 'hi, I'm being friendly" wave.  It was a 'hey, I know you" kind of wave.  You know, hand about shoulder height, palm facing me, fingers wagging back and forth at a brisk rate.  I didn't recognize her, but I'm sure it's someone I go to church with. 

When I got home Emily wanted to help me with taking my shoes off.  She's so cute.  I let her.  She tried so hard to untie them.  I had to finally do it for her, but I let her pull them off my feet.  Then I realized I was dripping sweat on her.  Poor thing.

Speaking of Emily, there's still time to add a $5 donation (or however much you want) to the Sharing Down Syndrome Arizona foundation.  You all have been so generous so far.  Thank you so much!

Time - 43:57 (avg. pace 9:10)

Splits - 9:03, 8:50, 9:07, 9:24, 7:33

At 6:30AM this morning it was already 90°.  Ay yi yi.  Well, I plan on running tomorrow with my buddy Brad.  He hates running.  But he's getting too old for basketball.  We used to go play early morning basketball three days a week.  That's what got me into running.  Too many churchball injuries.  Anyway, we're gonna go at 5:00AM.  Hopefully it will be a little cooler.

This was also the second time I've noticed that it actually cooled down after I was done running.  It was 88°.  I have two theories on that.  First, and probably not correct, once the sun breaks the horizon and the actual rays start hitting the 'cooler" air that's been sitting there, the warm air starts to move the cool air thus creating a bit of a breeze.  That's my theory anyway.  I'll do more scientific testing on it later.  Second, and more likely, I have my thermometer sitting underneath my front porch.  When the sun breaks the horizon, the direct rays shine right on it.  Once the sun rises, the thermometer is covered by the shade.

Has anyone noticed that I've been using a single apostrophe to start my quotes and a double apostrophe to end them?  It's in honor of Leandra who's missing at least one finger, maybe more.  That's how she does her air quotes.

Time - 27:56 (avg. pace 9:16)

Splits - 9:27, 9:13, 9:09, 0:06

I set the alarm to go off at 4am and hit the 5-min. snooze until 4:20am.  Then I got up and got ready to go.  After a little bit I noticed that my body was rebelling against my apparent need to be up so early.  I hit the toilet and tried to be as efficient as possible because I didn't want to be late getting to Brad's house.  Brad lives half a mile away, and by the time I got out the door it was 4:57am.  So I was only a couple of minutes late, but he was waiting for me at the corner.

We started out maybe a little too fast for him.  He had to walk a couple of times, but he told me that I inspired him to run farther than he would have on his own.  We had a fun talk, but we always do.  Oh, except that time we came home from camping and I had car sickness.  I wasn't much for conversation then.

We ran from his corner up to Broadway, over to the canal, down the canal where I introduced him to the drinking fountain, down to Southern, up Los Alamos, across Pueblo, and back up 32nd to his corner.  It was probably just over 3.2 miles, but I stopped my Garmin both times we walked.  Then I ran back home and got just over 4 miles in all together.

Brad is one of my dearest friends and has been since we met in college.  Brad was adopted and is not really sure about his heritage, but he may very well be black.  He has a 7 year old boy with Down Syndrome.  We've already decided that our children are getting married.  We used to play the Movie Quotes game on our lunch break when we worked together.  The only chance I'd have a beating him was when I teamed up with Alexis and we used our combine scores.  But even then he'd  usually win.  One of our favorite movies we like to quote is O Brother Where Art Thou.  When all else fails and we run out of stuff to talk about, we just start quoting that movie.

Time - 41:06 (avg. pace 10:07)

Splits - 9:41, 10:23, 10:37, 9:49, 0:33

Yesterday I woke up and my left heel was hurting.  Then it hurt all day whenever I would walk on it.  I need new work shoes.  The outsides of my heels are so worn down and it could be affecting my legs.  Negatively.