7.53@9:22
Back in my home town. Staying at my brother Jim's house before we head up to my parent's cottage in the Thousand Islands. Ran from his neighborhood, onto Klem Road and then turned right once I got to where the Hojack Trail crossed the road and headed northwest. First mile felt a little bit clunky and slow and thought I'd be doing ok if I could get at least 6 miles in.
But, after the first mile was feeling better and running on the trail of dirt and packed gravel was nice (it's a rails to trails trail). Running into the shaded part of the woods felt almost cold even though in the sun it was high 70's.
Made it past 3 miles and then kept on going, decided to turn around before reaching 4 miles out. Steady pickup of pace on the way back and ended up with a pretty good average pace. Glad to get a decent run while on vacation.
Got back to Jim's house and then got ready for the drive. Jim loaned be his car so Jessica, the baby and myself headed up to my parents place but first a stop at Syracuse University. We stopped by her old sorority house first. It was moving in day so pretty busy. Baby was sleeping so I stayed in the car with her while Jessica went in for some pictures. Next we parked by the student center and walked around the main quad and then went into the bookstore and bought a Syracuse dress for the baby.
Continued on to the cottage but couldn't relax yet, had to get ready for dinner. Dinner was held at the St Lawrence Spirits Chateau where they had a private room setup upstairs.
Back to the cottage after dinner. Had been texting Andy about his flight. Things looked touch and go. Tampa to DC was getting delayed enough to put the DC to Syracuse flight in danger. They re-routed him through Charlotte on a standby flight. He made it ok onto both flights and arrived just before 1:00am (exited the airpot about 1:15). We made it back to the cottage about 2:45 - finally time to relax!
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