It was 30 degrees and snowing this morning. There was a fresh 3-4 inches on my sidewalks. I put on my Santa hat and 3 sets of battery powered Christmas lights and ran the 1.5 miles to Perkins to meet up with a bunch of other runners for a Christmas Eve run. The group run began at 7:00am. There were 34 of us running the neighborhoods. We stopped a couple times to sing carols to people....it was great. I did, however, learn a powerful lesson this morning. NEVER, and I mean NEVER, give Lowell Hawkes the code to your garage door. During our run he suggested we go to Terry Jensen's house to sing. Well, unbeknownst to us, Terry is out of town and his daughters family is living in the house while their new one is being built. We actually snuck in, went downstairs, and WOKE THEM UP to sing Christmas carols to them. Thank goodness I know them or I would have felt even MORE Awkward than I did. Luckily Seth and Tara are good sports. But Tara did vow to get even with us. We went to a couple more places and the run ended up back at Perkins. Most of the runners stayed for breakfast but Kory, Barry Ames, and I ran another 5 miles to get the mileage over 10 for the day. Kory and Barry probably got 12-13 by the time they got home. I ran 10.20 very fun miles with great company this morning. MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE!!!
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