Warm morning. Started in the 60sF and ended w/ upper 70s. Humidity in the 70s too. Mostly sunny. Objective: endurance run + club run + Spirit Crusher Hill. I hope this really counts as an endurance workout even though I had two prolonged stops. First was the usual stop for the club meet-up (at 4.3 miles); we always talk a bit before we run. I had running partners for only a half mile or so. No one in my pace group wanted to go long today (not many showed up today), so I peeled off at the Snoqualmie Valley Trail and ran alone after mile 5. My second stop occured because I reached the Mt. Si Rd. and had not run quite far enough to be turning back yet. So I used my cell phone to call up my buddy who lives up that road and asked her if I could just nip up there and use her facilities and have some water. I had run exactly 10 miles when I reached her home, and had about a 15 minute break while I visited with her and her family. She has the most adorable little boys, one of whom said he wanted to watch me "take off" when I left. (He had been drawing rockets all morning.) I hope I didn't disappoint him too badly. On the way back down her canyon road, I passed the barn where Young Miss Sno rides horses and said hi to the owners, who were outside. That was a very brief stop. They insisted on giving me a bottle of cold water, probably because I was so covered in sweat. The humidity today was really hard for me and I had my usual heat nausea around mile 15. All in all, it was a fun & interesting run. There were too many rabbits to count on the SV Trail, and I almost stepped on a little garter snake. Did you know they eat slugs? They are one of the few animals that will do so. Around here, we really appreciate that, as we have huge slugs here.
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