Burns Park Loop

This will sound like an exaggeration, but it's not: I was almost exactly ten feet from my car and the finish of a 9.6-mile run when I tripped over a root and fell directly into parking lot gravel. I skinned knees and palms, and there's a slice above my right knee that I predict will leave a mark. Fuck. The fall marred an otherwise nice morning. I walked and jogged two laps of the Burns Park Loop in 2:56:27, with loops of 1:28:18, and 1:28:09. It was cold, below freezing throughout. Sleet fell for a couple of minutes in the middle of the second lap.