It was a freakishly warm wet and windy weekend. Between insane storms I made it out for a mid-morning 5 miler. With a stiff tail wind pushing me northward, I briefly thought about just buying a last minute plane ticket to Sacramento and walk running the December 9th California International Marathon in Sacramento that I was training for before kidney stones reared their ugly head. Then I started overheating in the 60 degree humid weather and had to turn around and run home against the now not very helpful wind. So unless one of y'all wants to use my bib, I think I will just email them and see if they will mail me my tee shirt and goodie bag after the race.
But with a 12 mile week under my belt and generally feeling a lot better, I will be running the 8K Thanksgiving Turkey Chase and the 8K Rudolph Ramble on December 15th. If all goes well, and I can build my mileage, I may try the Polar Half at the end of January. Fortunately, will also have a few days over Christmas in Florida for some longer warm weather runs.
I love that there are no ends in this sport. "Well, that plan is over and done -- time to start building to the next one." Discretion sounds like the right choice for today but I like the valor of Turkey Chases and Rudolph Rambles and running in Florida and Polar Bear 1/2 Marathons.
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