Aghhhh Dogs

I agree with Thais, we haven't been too terribly chatty on the ole blog. Me included. I have intentions to write after a run, but you know, showering, errands, life, get in the way and then I have lost whatever semi-interesting thing I may have said. Nevertheless, I will post for last week. Last Monday to be specific. I can't do anything more recent, because no running has occurred. We had good intentions to run on Thursday and then again today, but it was snowy on Thursday and today the wind is ridiculous (I know we get little sympathy from the Okies).

But last Monday, Curtis wanted to do a long run. I thought, I will go and if I need to I can turn back early. Oh,by the way, Curtis' idea of a long run is 12-15 miles while mine might be 8ish. Off we went. It was about 30 when we started but no wind so pretty nice. It moved up to the mid 30's pretty quickly I think. As I have mentioned, to do a long run, we have to cover a good portion of our little town. So we started off from the house and went south, up some hills, down the hills, just moseying along. About 45 minutes in, my bowels were calling (TMI, huh). During my little break, a couple of dogs decided to greet us and try to be tough. They were barking and Curtis visited with them a bit, then they ran off, then they would come back, then off again. Well, they came back again, barking, and one of them kind of lunges toward Curtis and bites him in the process! This has never happened to us while running so we were a bit surprised. It wasn't a bad bite, more of a scrape but it was bleeding pretty consistently so we decided to run to some friend's about a mile away so he could clean up the bite.

All done with that, Curtis was still ready to run, but I decided it was time to swing back towards home. I knew that I was at least 3 miles from home, and although I felt pretty good, I didn't want to go south for a couple more miles and then still have to turn around and run home. Off I went just kind of plugging away. It is pretty flat for the most part so I thought I was doing okay.

The last mile I was pushing myself to keep running but I did, and in total ran for about and hour and a half. So I was pleased with that. Mileage I am not so sure about. Curtis told me it was almost 9 but when I plot it out, that is not what I get, so hmmmm. I like the 9 cause that means I only need to go 4 more. Oh, and Curtis went like 10.5 or so. He has a bit further to get to 26. Hopefully Monday, will a better weather day here in Sandpoint. I am ready for warm weather running!!