Easy run. 6:40 am, 34° F, 37% humidity, wind 5 SW. When I turned on my Garmin this morning it gave me a low battery warning. That's a bad sign when you get a low battery warning as soon as you turn it on. I was confused because I just charged it last Friday, and have only used it on my Saturday run since then. But I think it got left in the charger but not plugged in after I uploaded my run on Saturday, and that must have sucked the power out of it. In any case, I had 10 minutes until I had to be out the door, so I charged it for 10 minutes. I really didn't think it would last for my whole run, but happy day, it did. I met Lindsay a little ways past the corner where we're supposed to meet. She has an iPhone and she downloaded some mapmyrun app for it and got an arm band, so she had that to track distance. That was good since I was worried about my Garmin dying and I wanted to make sure that she did 5 miles today. Because we met beyond half way between our houses, I had gone about .3 miles more than her. My watch was just past 4 miles when we made it to her house. She went in for a pit stop and I stretched a little, then she came back out and we did a mile loop that brought us back to her house, so she got 5 miles in. But then I still had to run home from her house. At one point a squirrel joined us and ran along the top of a fence just ahead of us for a little while. He was faster than us, but I think we could have outlasted him. College boy is back in school after being off last week, but my other kids are on Spring Break this week. That makes my mornings a little more leisurely.
AP: 10:07. Splits: 10:18, 10:21, 10:16, 10:03, 9:55, 10:06, 0.5 @ 9:34.
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