Go, you chicken fat, go away!

I went to Kingman over the weekend for my sister's wedding.  We drove up Friday mid morning.  I brought a pair of running clothes, but I never went running.  I spent most of Saturday setting up for the wedding that would be at 5pm.  I didn't go Sunday either because I try not to sweat on Sundays.

We got home around 10pm Sunday night.  I slept in and started my run at 7am.  A little later than I like, but better late than never.  Today is the first day where students will be going back to school full time instead of just two days a week.  I saw the junior high kids at the bus stop.  One of them was our old bishop's son.  I said, "What's up, Ethan?"  But his name is Emerson.  I continued to the Floodway and headed north.  I saw the Schumacher's again.  Some day I'm going to remember how to spell their name without having to look it up on Facebook every time.  I stopped briefly and asked if they went to church yesterday.  Yesterday was also the first day of non-restricted crowd sizes at church.  They said they did.  I said I missed it due to my sister's wedding, but there's always next week. 

I got to the other side of the Floodway and headed south.  I could see the old man in the fisher hat ahead of me.  I didn't think I would catch up to him.  I was making up ground on him but couldn't catch him before Adobe.  I saw the tall old lady and waved at her.  The old man continued south down the RWCD road after crossing Adobe.  So I did end up catching him.  I almost asked him what his name was, but I didn't feel like it was the right time.  I got to University and headed back north on the east side of the Floodway.  I saw a guy heading south on the other side near Adobe.  Turns out it was Br. Massey from the ward.  Strava told me so.  Then when I was leaving the gate, I could see two ladies walking down the sidewalk and I could see the tall old lady leaving the gate on the other side of the street.  So as I was waving at her again, one of the walking ladies said, "Burt."  I had no idea who she was at first, so I stopped and realized it was Sis. Knudsen.  Not sure who the other girl was.  Maybe one of her daughters that I don't know?  But I asked them both if they had gone to church yesterday.  She said they didn't because they were up at their cabin and they were supposed to have the flooring redone on Friday, but they didn't come until Saturday, so it was being worked on Saturday and Sunday.  Then she said, "There's always next week."

I got up nice and early this morning.  I started my run at 5:48am.  It was dark.  I could see a red light low to the ground up ahead on the Floodway trail.  I wondered if it was the blue light collared dog.  As I got closer I could see the blue light, too.  Apparently the other girl put a glow stick around her dog's neck.  So now they're twinsies.  Kind of.  There wasn't much going on today because of the darkness.  But it was getting light and I could see pretty well for the last quarter of my run.  As I was heading north on the east side of the Floodway on my second loop, I saw a lady running south down the RWCD road.  I don't think I've ever seen her before.  But then again, it was a still a touch dark.  I waved at her but I can't tell if she even saw me.  Just then I heard, "On your right!"  It was that same guy on a bike again.  So that was embarrassing.

I was up early.  I didn't sleep well last night.  Probably because of the nap I took yesterday and I ate more than I should have last night.  It took me a while to get out the door, though.  It was 6:21am, and it was already light out.  We're supposedly nearing the end of days over 100º.  It is a little cooler out.  I like running when it's a bit cold.  I seem to go faster.

Today's run was much faster than yesterday's even though I didn't feel great.  I think it's because it wasn't dark out.  I slow down when it's dark.  I saw a lady ahead of me walking her two dogs.  One of the dogs, the stout one, kept turning around and looking at me.  She just kept focused ahead and kept pulling him along, but I was worried that I was going to make her trip over him or something.  Right before I passed her I saw Edythe Ray coming towards me.  She said something about running, running, running.  She has a very soft voice.  I guess she was talking about me because she wasn't running.  Then I passed the dog walker and apologized.  I wasn't sure if she would hear me because she had headphones on.  But she said, "No, you're fine."

About a minute after passing her I heard a noise and looked to the west.  It was a (flock?) of geese flying in a V formation.  They went right over my head.  I thought about taking a picture and pulled my phone out of my pocket, but it was too late.

I guess Strava disabled the Flyby feature.  That's too bad.  Or maybe I just need to reboot my computer, but I expect its the former.  As I was approaching Adobe I saw a guy riding a bike slowly.  Not real slow, but he looked like he could definitely go faster if he wanted.  I saw a lady running behind him.   I wondered if they were together.  They both turned on the RWCD road, and I followed them.  The guy went on ahead.  I didn't think I would catch the girl, and I didn't, but she wasn't running that much faster than me.

I headed back north on the Floodway path and saw the old couple that saw me shirtless last week.  I told them to have a great day.  I got passed twice by cyclists today but neither of them were the same guy that passed me yesterday.

I did a quick Google search on Strava and flyby's.  They disabled it for securtity reasons.  Makes sense.  The option for it is still there, but you have to enable it.  So they turned it off for everyone, but you can go back and turn it on yourself.  But who's gonna do that when they probably didn't know it existed in the first place?

I got out after 7am this morning.  I thought it might be too hot, but it has been cooling down a little.  I saw quite a few people out today.  A couple of them were awkward because of timing.  Twice I ended up following behind ladies that I'm sure were nervous.  You can't blame them.  I just wish I could say, "Hey, I'm one of the good guys!"  But that's exactly what a bad guy would say.  I could hear one lady pushing her baby in a stroller.  She was Asian.  I would guess Japanese.  She was loudly speaking in Japanese, I'm guessing, to the baby as she pulled the stroller from the side instead of pushing it.  I thought it an odd custom, but perhaps an accepted one in other cultures.  Wow.  I'm really walking a line here.  But it turns out there was a phone sticking out of the cup holder and she was talking to some on the phone.

I decided to run up to 1-1/2 on the Canal today.  That means half way between McDowell and McKellips.  At one point I came across a tree branch that had fallen from the main trunk of a tree in someone's backyard.  It was completely covering the path leaving only a tiny place to step over it right next to the Canal.  I'm glad we didn't come upon it when we did our midnight hike a couple of weeks ago.  We would have walked right into it.