9 miles into Saratoga Springs and back. I was slow again this morning and I still don't know why. I started to feel better the last mile or two but I didn't want to push it because I'm running my long run tomorrow night. I slept through yesterday's planned run. My alarm clock snooze button just broke so I must have just turned it off although I don't remember doing it. Maybe I should have done that again today because I was up past 11 last night watching the Jazz game. 11 to 4:30 isn't a good night's rest. So I was on my way back from Saratoga Springs on the first section of the JRP. This area doesn't border the river it just has the road on one side and a fence on the other. It is more just a paved sidewalk than anything else. Anyway, I heard a noise right next to me and when I looked down I saw a skunk running right there, two feet away, as someone might run with their dog. I jumped into the road and hauled ___ trying to put as much distance between me and the back of that thing as possible. That sight did much more to elevate my heart rate than the run. I got home and my wife asked me if I'd been sprayed by a skunk. Crap, I didn't think I had but I must have got something because she smelled it as soon as I walked in. Now my bathroom smells like skunk and its been 4 hours since I changed and took a shower. My laundry went straight to the washing machine but the bathroom still smells bad. Now I'm paranoid. Do I smell like this now? Maybe I should hide and not talk to people today. I now I didn't get a full spray, I mean how could you miss that, but I got something. | 