Surely at some point in my 35-year running career I have run without gloves and walked into the house drenched in sweat, but I cannot remember doing that, not before tonight. It was 56 degrees and at first misty, then rainy, then misty again, as I ran the 35th Street Loop in 35:20, with a half mile up in 4:58, three miles in 25:50 alternating 60 seconds hard with 60-second jogs, and a half mile down in 4:32. My splits were 9:13, 8:39, 8:51, and 8:37. This was my first good run since I had whatever I had three or four weeks ago.*
Crazy, but this morning when I jogged for five minutes and otherwise walked the Levy Loop in 25:30, it was windy as hell and 40 degrees and I wore a hat and mittens and blue jeans and a goddamned coat.
*Okay, after reading the only other running blog to which I have easy access, I am no longer so impressed with my run tonight, and was reminded that I had a pretty good eight-mile run late at night on Feb. 3. To restate: This was my first half-way decent run since I turned 50.
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