Thursday, January 27, 2011

dark cold snow ice run, with the dog

I pulled it together this morning, layered up, and went running outside.  5:45am.  Zeke, the dog, was looking at me breathing heavily twisting his head from side-to-side the way he does when he knows something fun could be about to occur so I took him with me.  He's getting better.  Perhaps the 'no-squirrel' environment helped.  He ran pretty steady by my side - just occasionally stopping abruptly to smell certain spots in the snow. 

Yesterday, Wednesday I got up at 4:55am and went to the Y.  Swam 2 grand then went upstairs to run on a little tiny indoor track with high banking in the corners.  14 laps = 1 mile.  The engineers shouldn't have built this 'opportunity' to run indoors.  I was good for 14 laps, I think  - I couldn't even keep track of how many times I ran around in a circle.  I kept thinking of Zeke chasing his tail the whole time for some reason.  After that I hit the weight room for just a minute or so.  One of the usuals from the pool that bobs up-and-down for an hour everyday was up there and asked me if I'd swam that morning.  You just can't beat the downtown central branch YMCA camaraderie.  We're like a team.   

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