Today was an easy ten miler, pretty much straight out and back from the headquarters, right down Chicken road and out the back gate. I was thinking that it was a nice, warm morning but I kind of misjudged that. I started off with three shirts on (left the gloves in the car), one real tight undershirt sort of thing, a long sleeve shirt and a regular t-shirt. All of em were clima-cool, quick dry, synthetic sort of shirts. About 3 minutes into the run, I decided that it was WAAAAY to warm for three shirts, so I ditched the long sleeve shirt right after I crossed Yadkin Road. Big mistake, again.
Once I started to go down the big old hill, it got colder and colder and colder. I really should have turned around and gone back to get my shirt, but it was all the way up the hill, so I kept running. I just stayed on Chicken Road for 5 miles, then turned around, all of them cold. Of course, the Nebraska and Kansas contingents will have no sympathy for me, but my thumbs got real cold. My time was pretty good, 7:21 miles, ten of them, so outside of the really cold thumbs, it was a good run.
On the donation front, my Aunt Faye (the one that gave me the gloves) kicked in a donation, putting me over the 600 dollar mark. Pretty sweet.
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