A good evening workout on a warm day (though "warm" is relative. I was talking to one of my neighbors before leaving on the run, and she complained about how hot is was. Today's high was 85). Tracyton Beach Road to Essex Road out and back, return on Beach Drive. It's a fairly flat route through the middle of the run, where I got a good pace working that probably crept under 7 min/mile, then a few hills on the way back made me work a bit and slowed the pace down, which actually was probably wise. When I was almost home a guy yelled at me from his garage on a street I always run down. He said 'You run super fast, you're awesome.' Let's just say I've heard worse, so it was good encouragement. I've decided to run a 5k in Bremerton this Saturday, it's part of our town's blackberry festival. I was on the fence until I heard that it's a 1-mile loop right through downtown that you do three times, which sounds like a weird race but in a fun way. We have kind of a cool downtown corridor that could be fun to rip through (if anybody shows up to watch, that is). Last thing, this is for James and the city of Providence: There were three dogs on my block as I left that got out of their fenced yard, and the two corgis ran at me. They couldn't even keep up with my jog though, so I kept going. Then in Lions Park a little pug or something got off his leash and came screaming at me, all yippy. He got right into kicking distance and took a little lunge at me, but ran out of gas then. I decided not to turn around and punt him, it would have broken my stride.
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