Go, you chicken fat, go away!

Weigh in day.  I'm down 25 lbs. 

I was about 0.4 miles in to my run when I saw this sweet old lady walking down the path towards me.  I said good morning as is customary.  She said good morning back.  I ran up to the turn around point on my first loop.  Technically, it's not a turn around point if I'm not taking the same path back.  Ok, I ran as far north as my first loop goes and then I went to the other side of the Floodway.  Coming back south I saw two bunnies.  They took the "frozen" position and they were staring at each other.  I figured they were just waiting for me to go by so they could "unthaw."  Turns out they were facing off.  The one bunny charged the other one and the other one hopped about 12 inches straight up in the air while the first one went right under it.  Then they turned around and faced off again.  I thought it was the coolest thing I'd ever seen.  Then I thought about what a boring life I lead.  Oh well.  I ran south three loops and as I got to the "turn around point" I saw the sweet old lady again.  She said, "Wow!  You went all the way around."  I said, "Yep!"  Then I was able to run the last 1.25 miles knowing that I had impressed a sweet old lady.
 

Had a busy morning, so I had to do a short run.

I did a 3.2 mile hike up to the Wind Cave with my wife and Vanessa.  I've never been before.  It was a fun hike.

Today my friend was trying to get rid of some of her civil engineering books because she has to move and needs to get rid of a bunch of stuff.  I went over to see if there was anything I could use.  She's older than I am and still had a bunch of her college text books.  So, yeah, I left those.  But I grabbed a few things.  She lives right off of Ellsworth Rd., which is essentially Usery Pass.  So I decided to run from her house up to the Usery Park entrance.  Normally I run to the park entrance from the other side of the hill.  It's steeper on the other side.  And it's a 9.2 mile loop.  This was only 166 feet of elevation gain and a 3.1 mile loop.  A nice little 5k.  Anyway, by the time I was done rummaging, it was almost 8am.  So it was getting pretty warm.  I had a water bottle in my pocket, so I was good.  It was a nice run.

It's been a while since I've run 5 miles.  Sounds crazy.  I began at 7am.  Still not early enough.  I just decided to run north up the Canal until I hit 2.5 miles, then turn around.