Medium-long run. 5:38 am (Central Standard Time), 24°F, 86% humidity, wind 7 NNE. We're back in York, Nebraska. I had to get up early for this run so that we can get out of here at a decent time. Last night my son was talking about wanting to leave at 7:00 this morning, but it's 8:15 now and he's still asleep. I'm just back from my run and desperately need a shower. I was out on the farm roads again today. About half of this run was in the dark. That was a little challenging because my headlamp needs new batteries and so I couldn't see really well and the dirt road is a quite rutted in spots. Also, apparently they got a little snow here yesterday and so the roads were just a little bit snowier than they were on Thursday. The temperature was pleasant enough until I turned east for the last 2 miles and was going into the wind. (The wind also picked up a bit around that time). Then I was pretty cold, so I hurried to finish.
Number of vehicles I encountered on the farm roads on Thursday: 2. Number of vehicles I encountered on the farm roads today: 0. I tried to work on the Navel to Spine que as much as possible, though my mind did wander some. I've thought about repeating this que for another week, but I think I'm ready to move on. AP: 9:20. Splits: 9:41, 9:38, 9:24, 9:22, 9:34, 9:30, 9:27, 9:20, 9:21, 9:12, 9:08, 9:27, 9:08, 9:07, 8:57, 0.16 @ 8:28.
The University visit went well yesterday. My son liked the school and the bass professor told him that he gave him a good rating in the audition. So we'll just have to wait and see whether the music department gives him a good enough scholarship to get hiim there. It would be a challenge to send him to school at Drake because of the cost and the distance from home. He prefers to stay in Denver and go to the University of Denver, but that's even more expensive and he hasn't even been accepted there yet. We didn't find anyplace great to eat in Des Moines. In fact, we had a hard time finding any place at all to eat in Des Moines. Also, it snowed quite a bit during the day in Des Moines yesterday and we had a tough time getting out of town. We saw a lot of cars off the road in the median. We did finally get to better roads about 50 miles are so west of Des Moines. | 