I slept with my head next to an open window and it rained a good portion of the night. The house I stayed in is right next to the ocean and so all night long the smell of fresh rain, and ocean drifted in through the window. When I got up to run, the fog was low and misty. I had to catch the ferry to Nantucket in the early afternoon and so I ran a really uninpsired 9 whatever miles. I knew I wanted to run at least 4 of them kind of fast, so I just stuck with the Salem trail and ran it twice. I averaged 8:37 for those 4 miles. Not a true tempo run, but better than the meandering I'd been doing the past two days. The moisture in the air was so thick it condensed on the hairs of my arms. I looked down and my arms were coated with a white, mositure film. It was like a running in a sauna. I picked some of the flowers along the trail, put them into my Nathan waterpack, and then pressed them into my travel journal when I got home. Off to the island of Nantucket to visit my cousin. Funny fact. When I got to Boston, the friends I was visiting were both looking very svelt and healthy. So I asked them what they had been doing lately to look so good. The told me that last October they had given up refined sugar. So my days at their house was no problem to keep the no refined sugar/choclate promise. But there are many, many days left of my vacation.....Hmmm. | 