The alarm starting beeping at 5:05am. That's early, for sure, but insane for running (read back to my thoughts on morning runs). At 5:30am, when Jay's alarm starting going off so he could join me, he just turned it back off. Here's the exchange that followed:
Me: (flicking him on the back)
Him: owww, why did you do that? Why are you waking me up before 5:30? The alarm hasn't even gone off yet.
Me: Yes it did, you just rolled over and turned it off.
Him: (rolling over to look at the clock and realizing I was right) Oh, I guess it's okay then.
Roughly ten minutes later we hit the road to put in the first of (hopefully) 20 miles before we get on a plane Friday afternoon. The air was still humid, but the temperature was below 80 degrees, so I'll take it. There were actually a couple of cold spots on the road that down right gave you goose bumps. We headed on up toward Log Inn Road and the roads were eerily clean after all the downed limbs and leaves that littered them after Friday's storm...almost like the street sweeper had come our way. Even the beheaded snake was gone. Weird, but at least we didn't have to add hurdling to today's adventure.
For those of you still without power, I do want to let you know that BGE is on it and working over time (at least you get to sleep in your bed). When we turned up Log Inn Road, there sat one of the BGE trucks on a little turn around with the driver asleep behind the wheel (mind you its only about 6am and again you are sleeping in your bed rather than on the next street you are trying to bring power back to). I will give them credit. Its been a difficult few days and they are really working hard to undo mother nature's fury.
The rest of the run started to warm up a bit, so I'm glad I ignored the temptation to turn off the alarm (like Jay) and get my run in early. Only three more days of these early mornings (hopefully) and then I will probably be relegated to the treadmill the next two weeks in China (because it's flipping hot in Guangzhou...lows in the 80s). Happy trails!!!
Stats -
Miles: 5.5
Time: 47:22 (average pace of 8:36 per mile)
Location: Broadneck Peninsula - Bay Head to Log Inn
Feeling: Not back to 100% but feeling more normal
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Hi,
I'm a member of the JLW and saw your profile on the AJLI website that included your Linked-In profile which brought me to your blog.
I have a quick question regarding the JL of Annapolis that you may be able to help me with. Would you mind contacting me? I don't want to leave my email addy on the comments, but you can email me through my about.me page (the linked url)
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