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5.3 miles, 69 Degrees, overcast and muggy. I’ve heard that the Romans didn’t have a concept of hours and minutes like we do. They had ‘morning’ and ‘midday’ and ‘afternoon’, but not 9:00AM or 2:23PM. This meant that their days naturally flexed with the solstices and the natural rhythm of the planet. You didn’t …
5.38 Miles, 60 Degrees, Sunny and absolutely beautiful. Very low humidity. Longest day of the year yesterday. Sunrise at 5:08 yesterday, 5:09 today. It’s all down hill from here! The official sunrise is 5:09 but the day begins to wake up around 4:30. That’s when the happy birds wake up. That’s when I usually wake …
5.38 Miles, 59 degrees and gorgeous. Happy Solstice. Hug your inner pagan. What could be more pagan than running in the woods with your dog? I have said that Buddy is my spirit guide. Some cultures believe in spirit guides. Mine is an old border collie. I told my oldest daughter Katie last night that …
5.27 miles, Raining, 69 degrees. Storm passed through last night. Good. We needed the rain and it broke the humidity. Woke up at 4:50 but it was pouring rain so I rolled back over. Had a hard time getting to sleep last night. Was watching The Big Lebowski and had never seen it before, but …
5.24 miles, 75 degrees, overcast and muggy. Two days out from the summer solstice. If you haven’t built your henge yet, you’d better get working. 1000% humidity this morning. Could have worn a Jacques Cousteau aqualung. More like swimming through a thick mud-hole than running. It has been threatening rain for 3 days and reneging …
