36F at my house when I started - brrr!!! It may have warmed up to 40. Thick fog in the valley, clear up on the Ridge. Endurance run, club run, Leg Builder Hill. Last un-long run of the marathon recovery period. One of my goals in the coming months is to build up more foot and leg strength for wearing my minimalist shoes for long runs and marathons. The Piranha's felt fairly good today, but I could tell I was right on the edge. Whine alert. Forecast looks sunny all the coming week. I'm sorry, but this is getting ridiculous. We should be getting snow showers in the mountains and building up our snow pack for skiing. I know I am weird. I know I am in a teensy little minority (though there are others! we meet in secret and have special handshakes to recognize each other). But I'm going to whine anyway. Enough with the constant sunshine! If that's what I wanted I would move to California. If one more person says to me, "Isn't this beautiful weather" I am going to scream: "No it is not bloody beautiful weather! You had your turn! You had all summer and a fairly warm, dry spring." Yes, we had one week of rain in August, which is unusual, and I had to listen to an unending litany of complaints about "not getting any summer this year." It's time for some good, clean, rain. It's time for clouds and filtered light. We are The Evergreen State. Let's see some gray days. I swear I'm going to go get myself some black contact lenses if this keeps up. (Big exhale.) I feel better now. | 