Another morning of wondering if I really wanted to get out of bed to run. I could have stayed in bed and ran later in the sun, but then I would be running alone. I chose to get out and join Tom. I'm always glad when I do that! The wind was doing it's thing here in Spanish Fork! We headed west to start instead of south east so we could have the wind at our back at least until we warmed up a bit. It worked pretty good until we reached our long stretch going east with nothing to break the wind. We pushed through it and felt great when we could turn north and have the wind from the side instead of head on! I felt really good today! I didn't feel like I was fake running like I did yesterday to start out. The main effect of Saturday's half marathon is that I have needed a little more sleep in the day than usual. After a morning nap yesterday I felt great and was able to get some things accomplished. I think I'll do the same today. When Tom and I are out in the mornings we always see a man with a shovel and his dog. We always call him "shovel man". In my mind I make up reasons why he is out and about in the early, dark morning. I think of being a young girl and hearing stories about scary guys at the cemetery. Well, today we saw him and we were up close to him and realized that it is a friend of ours. I told him that we call him shovel man. I guess I'll quit making up scary stories about him and just realize that he is a good dog owner taking care of the doggie business with the shovel.
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