Started out at Longleaf. It was in the mid 40's.
Very
small crowd this morning. Ran with Mike and Renee for a bit until we
got to Diane's house. Ran into the park and did an out and back on the
off road trails, maybe just over 5 miles. I saw quite a few deer, heard
the birds chirping and reached down to verify that it really was frost
on the ground. My pace was a little bit faster going into the park, about 8:30~8:45. I had some slower miles on the trails on the way out, but once I turned around I picked it up a little bit except on the portions where the sand was very dry (looked like piles of sugar which kept my mind off of it being harder).
I did a slightly different route than I had done in the past so little by little I'm learning my way around and the landmarks that all used to look the same are becoming more meaningful. It's quite a change of pace running off the paved trails. I saw no people today, just dear, so I felt more like I was running through their territory.
Once I left the park and was back on the pavement I realized that I was a little pressed for time so I picked up the pace a bit
for the last 4.5 miles to get back in time (7:41, 7:30, 7:16, 6:58, 7:43).
Just enough time to get back home and take Thomas to bowling then had a pretty full day ahead helping on science fair project (making a cloud in a bottle), and then I took my first bass guitar lesson.
Jenny had bought the bass for me a number of years ago for Christmas. I was so excited to get it and tried to learn it on my own but eventually gave up on it. So, I figured that it's never too late to try something again. Lesson went pretty well, started learning the bass line from Black Magic Woman as well as the basics.
