Wow! Today was Kimi's running adventure! I set out to do my 7 miler for this week. For some wild and crazy reason I decided to take the first 3 miles straight up into the mouth of the canyon where our famous Spanish Fork wind comes from. It was a the cold of the wind that was bothering me more than the force of the wind. My face gets so cold to start out with. I went to areas that I haven't gone to before so I came across a few adventures. One street led to a dead end so I turned to go up another one. It led to an undeveloped cul-de-sac so I had to do an unplanned trail run to get to another street. (I almost sprawled myself on the ground there.) On the other road I ended up on a lonely stretch with about 10 yards of weeds between me and the main highway. There on the highway was a hitchhiker going the same direction as me. It kind of gave me a weird feeling to be right there so I pushed into the wind to get out of an uncomfortable situation. When I reached the top of this road I remembered they had closed it off to traffic. I thought I could just go through some weeds for a bit and get onto the next road right ahead of me. But as I reached the end I realized they had put a barbed wire fence up all along the area. I looked around and found a place where someone had bent the fence down so I climbed over there. On the other side the wind was waiting as fiercely as ever for me. Later on a dog came my way, he made me a little nervous as he came toward me, but then passed me like I wasn't even there. I was happy for that. The whole run felt great! I actually had to pull myself out of the 9s once in a while. At about 4 miles I felt like I could take on the world! I actually got the chills and it had nothing to do with the chill in the air. I just liked the feeling of what I was doing! At about 6.5 miles I could tell I was on track to be a little over 7 miles so I made a few turns into the wind again to take it up to 8. My overall time was 1:24:14 Average pace 10:35 10:43 10:57 11:24 9:58 10:11 10:03 10:22 10:32 And now I am sitting here freezing so I shall go take my nice warm shower! | 
