Not as Bad as I Thought

(More blog entries from ryan)

I'm still kind of dumb.

As I set out on my run this afternoon, I was already beginning to formulate what this post would be about: the out and back run. I've been thinking about this for a while since there is a really nice out and back run from my house on some trails along powerline. I'll get to that post another time because for the first time today, I reached the end of the powerlines. Well, or at least a road crossing. I knew this road and turned on it. So much for the out and back.

About three minutes after turning on the road, I planned to title this post "Today I Overdid It." Luckily that wasn't the case. Once I got into it, I thought it was going to take me longer than it did. I thought I was going to be plodding on the road forever. Very rarely do I find myself running on roads. I much prefer trails. So I thought the road pounding combined with the distance was going to be bad. It was still a longer run than I planned, but it wasn't miserable.

That being said, it still wasn't easy. At one point, the town had decided to install all new sidewalk along the road. Don't get me wrong sidewalks are nice, but they are considerably harder than the nice soft shoulder I had been running on. Also, somehow the way back on the road was all uphill. Well, a lot of it anyway. At one point the sidewalk actually went uphill more than the road. Sure the road was fairly narrow there, but did they need to put the sidewalk at the top of huge embankment?

Anyway, I made it home. I was pretty tired.

In a related story, two low fat-frozen waffles and three cups of coffee for breakfast are not enough fuel when you got out for a run at 12:30.

I'm kind of dumb.

- Ryan

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