Stinky

I went out early afternoon today for a nice 4-miler. Well, the temperature was a little warm, in the low 90s. So I walked every mile and as a concession to the heat, walked the last quarter-mile that I'd normally run back into the neighborhood. Summer is hanging on here in Texas but looks like it's supposed to break next week. I mean, we're almost to October, so why not? The lack of rain has caused the stream to dry up on the far side of the neighborhood pond to the north. That means the place stinks a little, what with the rot and lack of moving water. A chance of rain is in the forecast early next week, but we'll see. They've been wrong before. I missed my Tuesday outing due to a work event in the afternoon and birthday outing for some friends that evening. One thing I've learned over the years is to not fret about missing a run, especially when I'm not in training for a race. The other thing I thought interesting was how the moderately quicker pace I ran in my last outing translated to running the same today, when really I needed to slow down a little. Oh, well. Lots of learning still going on even a couple of decades into this running thing.