Half Hour (R)
One Day at a Time
Half an hour of solid running is not bad at all considering I haven’t run in 12 days. I have got to be more consistent. I think it will get easier as the weather gets warmer and the days get longer. Only time (and my actions during that time) will prove my consistency. I can make all the resolutions I want, professing that I am going to run more, but it doesn’t mean anything.
The weather is quite cool considering what it has been, what it could be, and what it probably should be. Mid 50’sF today, mid 30’sF last night and again tonight. It’s really quite perfect running weather (most would argue, although I wouldn’t), except for the wind! Bloody wind. I hate wind. It’s so windy here when the weather is unseasonably cool (fronts come through). Summer is the best . . . 90 degrees, humid, no wind, save for the occasional thunderstorm. I love summer weather. It fits a pattern. It fits a climate (humid subtropical). Winter weather here certainly doesn’t . . . cool enough to annoy but not cold enough to call it a typical temperate winter). That’s my thing, I love weather, I love climate. What we have here is not climate, except in summer, it’s just a roller coaster, but not even very deep on the cold side. I mean we just had two of the coldest winters in the last 30 years here and all we could muster was a couple inches of snow once each winter, so that’s about as good as it ever gets here on the snow and the cold. Also, it rains when it wants to rain, there’s no rainy season or dry season. It’s just random. Perhaps I’d get bored of the same "climate" day in and day out though, I don’t know.
The dogwoods are starting to bud but I wouldn’t say they are at the blooming stage yet. Things are really coming along quite slowly. Not much greenery on most of the deciduous trees as of yet. More shrubs blooming, not sure what kinds. Oh, one other crappy thing about our "psuedoclimate" down here is that we still have a few trees (like every year) that have not completely lost all their leaves. I’m not sure how that works, but I assume the new buds will push the dead, brown leaves off. Not a whole lot of trees are like this but there are some, and as an example, there’s a huge White Oak tree in our backyard full of dead leaves, unfallen.
-AR
See Route
3.34 miles (5.37 km) through Millbrook and Rose Point. Start time approximately 2:55 PM EST on 03/11/2011. Total run time 30:00. Pace 8:59. Weather Conditions: Clear/Sunny, 55F/13C, Dew Point 28F, Humidity 35%, Winds W 11mph (Gusts 19mph), 30.09inHg/1019.0mbar and falling.