Tom didn't need a 2-a-day run today, so we chose to try to get a few extra Zs this morning. I went out at about 9:00 a.m. It was nice to run in the sunshine. Mile one: Started out at a 9:15 pace and it was feeling good. I decided I would try to keep all my miles no faster than 9:00 and no slower than 9:30. End of mile one, ave pace 9:16. Mile two: I was doing good to stay in my pace. I always have a hard time doing that when I am alone because I get bored and start to speed up. Up ahead of me I saw a tall, skinny person with short hair turn onto the road I was on. I thought it might be my tall, skinny, short haired friend so I started going a bit faster to catch up. As I caught up I saw that it was a tall, skinny, short haired person, but it was of the male variety, not the female. So now I either had to fall behind again...(NOT!), hang out with him...(NOT!) or keep up the speedier pace and chick him! (YUP!) I kept up the pace and he must have turned somewhere, because I never saw him again. I did a turn around to head back instead of going down into the river bottoms. After I had passed him and couldn't see him, I slowed it down. That mile ended up at 8:53. At mile three I had to stop and stretch a little. I was feeling quite a bit of tightening in my lower, back left leg. It felt good after a stretch and the rest of the miles are as follows... 9:09 9:29 9:12 9:25 Lots of walkers out at that time of day. Not many runners though. The walkers are always bundled up so much. I was passing people while I was wearing shorts and short sleeves. They were in full body wear, one even had big, fluffy, white earmuffs on! I gave her the benefit of the doubt and assumed she is visiting from Arizona or Maui! Speaking of short sleeves. The only reason I miss my under armor is because I now get some rubbing under my arms against the seams. What do I do for that? Vaseline? Bandaids? Sorry, I guess I got a little chatty today. I didn't have anyone to talk to while I was running, so I've gotta do my talking now.
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