You could get arrested for that

the other day I was jay running across a busy street and was on the cobblestone island waiting for traffic to pass when a motorcycle cop looks at me like I'm crazy. He let me go on my way.

Tonight I'm running and feeling great and I decide to run over to the newly built 4 story parking structure. It was 9 at nite and the lights were on and I've been planning for months to use this for my hill workout. It's so new it hasn't even been used yet. You can see the picture above. The dirt is no longer there and has been replaced with acres of asphalt. Anyway, I run up the first ramp round the corner and get ready to go up the second ramp when what do I see, but Chandler's finest coming down the ramp slowly. Whenever, I get caught doing something I shouldn't be doing I act as if I'm in the right. So I waved to the police officer and kept running. As I look into the car, I see he's looking down at his computer screen. He doesn't even see me, so I keep running. At about a 9 minute pace up hill.

This was at the end of my run. I did 4.52 miles at a 12:10 pace. I did negative splits for the last 2.5 miles. I ran the entire time, garmin says 97% of the time. The only time I stopped was when I needed to pee. I peed where all the dogs pee. I didn't need to bag anything, thank you very much.

The cooler weather actually takes some getting used to. It felt weird the first half mile or so. Almost painful. And it was only about 78f. But, the cooler temps help me to keep my HR down. The 8 miler yesterday was all under 140 bpm and todays 4.5 was mostly under 150 bpm.

So, that's two weeks in a row over 20 miles. 76 days in a row of exercise. And I feel much more confident now that I'm running better in the cooler temps.

Charlie's Angels

Three beautiful athletic women and an old man they see in a fatherly way. Yeah, that sums up the run from yesterday. Thanks to the angels, they were great to run with. My wife was concerned that they would all be hitting on me and I couldn't get a good run in. But, they were ladies the entire time. And do you know how hard it is to google Charlie's Angels and find a picture that has the guy. You find many fine pictures of the Angels. None with Charlie, of course. And one with Bosley. Thanks to Allposters for the picture, you might want to buy one from them.

Kate Jackson. All you guys are thinking the same thing. Who's your favorite angel.