I just ran up and down the street in the cool morning. It was a surprize how wet everything was. It must have rained over night, but you never would have known it by 6:00 a.m. -- it was clear as a bell! I wanted to run up to the cemetary to look out over valley and the lake, but I held back knowing my legs would be sore if I did that. So I held back, ran less than I wanted to and dreamed of how fun it's going to be to just run, and run, and run down the canyon on Saturday. My daugther's cross country team will be volunteering at one of the water stations, which will be fun for me to see her there. She's been at XC practice every day at 7am for the last 2 weeks and just got moved into the 'elite' group (sub & 7:00 mile group). I don't know if she can keep it up thorugh the season, but for now she's training with them, and will go varsity (in the 9th grade) if she keeps it up. Also, she came home from soccer to tell me that her soccer coach knows me. He looked at her name, looked at her, said she looked like someone he knew in college, and then asked her if she was my daughter. Turns out he's an Ex...whose last words to me (that I can remember) were not to marry my husband (now of 20 years). Awkward. | 