You'd think I'd learn by now, but I keep doing it: Setting my alarm clock 12 hours LATE. Wanted to get up at 4:45 a.m. to go run with the Crackheads, set it for 4:45 p.m. Then woke up at 5:45. I was supposed to meet Sparky30 from RWOL this morning. Got to the Capitol at 6:06, just as Tom sent the Crackheads out on their run. Tom said no one had been asking for me, so maybe Sparky didn't show. So, with no stretching or warmup whatsoever, I headed out on the run. And just passed people left and right, first walkers, then joggers, then runners. Finally looked at my watch and I was cruising at 9:00 pace. And just kept cruising. Couldn't read my directions properly in the predawn light and went too far before turning around and heading back, so my planned 8-miler wound up as almost 9. Maintained a near-9:00 pace, then put the hammer down the last half-mile or so and ran it at about MP. Off to Fayetteville this morning to see Spamalot this afternoon and a basketball game tonight. Then spending the night, waiting for the latest Canadian cold front to arrive. It's supposed to be about 20 tomorrow morning up there, 17 tomorrow night down here when the front makes it to central Arkansas. It's 44 now and the temperature is already falling. | 