Go, you chicken fat, go away!

I forgot to blog today.  If you're reading this, today is actually tomorrow.  But I'm writing it today, which is actually tomorrow.  Oh, never mind.  Nice run.  Only a dull ache in my soleus.

I felt real good this morning.  Up until I had about two miles to go and I had to stop at the street to wait for cars.  Then I slowed down.  Technically, I guess I still felt good because I was running slower.  Anyway, with less than a mile to go I saw an old lady walking her dog.  It looked like Ginger from far away.  The dog wasn't on a leash, so it ran up to me.  The lady was real apologetic, but I told her not to worry about it because I have a dog that looks just her (her dog, not her.)  I talked to the old lady for a while.  Her dog's name was Sandy.  I told her about Ginger's bloody paw.  Then I lied to her and told her I wanted to take her dog's picture for my kids, but it's really for you bloggers.  But I'm so old that I consider most of you to be my children.

4.1 for my 41st!  I went south down the Floodway and realized I wouldn't be able to go 2.05 miles before I ran out of Floodway.  So, I had to come up with an alternative route in my head.  Nailed it!

Haven't missed a day all month.  oh yeah!

I shouldn't have been bragging about how I hadn't missed a day of running in December.  Yesterday was raining all morning and Emily stayed home sick.  I hoped to go out later in the day, but never did.

Today I thought I'd feel pretty fresh from taking a day off, but I didn't.  At all.  The first 5 minutes was a 10:45 pace.  After I stopped at University to wait for traffic I felt a little better and my overall pace ended up being 9:59.  Slower than lately, but I'm not racing anyone.

It was really beautiful out today.  I run the same route all the time, but because it was so nice out, I really got to enjoy how beautiful of an area I get to run in.  The Floodway had a couple of inches of water in it because of yesterday's rain, and the ducks were waddling around in it.  I didn't think people would be out walking their dogs because they like to let the dogs run around in the Floodway and they wouldn't want to with all the water.  But man!  They were out in droves.  Not in the water, but up on the path that goes along it.  There's a retirement community right next to the path that tends to get inhabited in the winter.  Every poodle in the tri-state area was being walked down that path today.  Geez!