Since we're in Kansas City for a few days I ran my old route, all 6 miles of it. I planned on running in the morning but after our trip yesterday (transmission problems with the van, visit to urgen care for The Wife), the comedy of errors gave me an excuse to sleep a little longer. The temperature was 88 degrees when I started out at 5 p.m. with lots of nice sunshine. I thought several times about walking but since this will probably be my last time to ever run this route I wanted it to be without stopping for a walk. I kept the pace purposefully slow and it paid off. Since I"m using the Nike running app on my iPhone now I was interested in how the GPS would work compared to the Garmin I used to use. It turned out pretty close, telling me my run was over about a block early. That could be because I crossed Shoal Creek to run in the shade, though, so no complaints. For my purposes it's close enough. And for one final time it was nice to run a familiar route. Wonder how many times I actually ran that same route over the years? A few hundred? Since I've logged more than a thousand runs on this unread blog I'm guessing at least three hundred, and if you add in longer runs that included it as part of a longer route the number probably goes up by another hundred.
When I was done running I walked back to the sidewalk on 96th Street and took pictures of my footprints in the concrete. When they first poured that section I was running east on 96th and tried to stay on the road but had to jump onto the not-quite-dry sidewalk to avoid getting run over. My Asics left faint prints behind and I've been meaning to take a picture of the evidence. Today I finally got it.
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