I have a bunch of grey hairs on the sides of my head. Normally when I cut my hair, these grey ones are lost in the plethora of non-grey ones and therefore hard to see. Unfortunately, this didn’t happen either of the last two times – now the grey ones still show even right after a haircut…
I’m not fighting it though – if more go grey or they decide to retreat and/or disappear, I’m going to let them do it.
The training schedule today called for a 7 mile run. I was looking forward to it since the temperature had finally dropped to the 70s during the evening for the first time in over a week. After dinner, I planned to do a couple laps around Delaware Park, but upon arriving, discovered I’d forgotten my socks and had to drive back home.
Instead of returning to the park, I ran to it, over to Hertle Ave, back through the park and then most of the way home. On the way there, I saw a co-worker and her son checking out the Buffalo Jugglers in front of the Rose Garden. Around two thirds of the way through (at Amherst & Parker), I saw yet another first while out running – there were a couple guys who had large City of Buffalo garbage cans in the sidewalk – we’re talking the type you put three bodies into, not just one. The guys had them separatd apart about twenty feet and were hurdling them (not bull-frogging them). I thought about giving it a shot, but after ~5 miles of running, I probably would have just plowed through it and looked like a fool. The rest of the run back was pretty uneventful, until I ran behind the Hoyt Lake Casino. Here I saw a lady with a large sized dog enter a johnny-on-the-spot. She didn’t bring the dog inside, but instead let him sit outside while she held his leash from inside. As I walked past, the dog sadly looked at me the whole time. I could have riled him up and caused him to chase me, but that’s just not my style…
As for the actual running, I conscientiously tried to take it a little slower than I have been. I ended up with an overall average of 8:13/mile, with none of the individual laps far off from that. (I’ve been running under 8 minute averages and my first mile is typicaly 15-30 seconds faster than the rest.) I didn’t feel tired at all toward the end of the run and hope slowing up on longer runs will have the same effect for those last couple miles. The 7 miles left me about a half a mile from home, so I walked the rest of the way down the middle of Lincoln Parkway and enjoyed the night – I came home both invigorated and relaxed.