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October 03, 2004
Long Sleeves
As many others have stated, fall is probably my favorite running season. The temperatures come down, the humidity is way down, the skies are bright blue and clear. Of all the things I love about running in the fall, I get to wear shorts and long sleeves! When I was a little girl, my mother never let me wear my shorts with a long sleeved shirt. She always would say that if it wasn't hot enough to have on short sleeves, I should wear pants. She had some other strange rules for dressing, I could not wear a sleeveless shirt with long pants for the same kind of reasoning-if it was hot enough to not wear sleeves, there was no reason to have on long pants. Well in running, long sleeves and shorts is my outfit of choice. It could be rebellion from my youth or that simply we are into "comfortable" running weather.
This morning was the first time I've gotten to wear my long sleeves with a pair of shorts to run. A few weeks ago at the PDR the temperature was right for it, but it was a race, so I had to wear "race clothes" (I am *so* mental). This morning was clear, in the mid-50s and breezy. Since Sunday is intentionally an easy run, there was no need to worry about getting too hot and wanting to take off the long sleeved shirt.
This morning was a very easy 7 miles. I must not have been running as slowly as I thought I was since I had to stop to relace my shoes and didn't get back any later than I usually would have. My legs were quite tight from yesterday's quick long run and standing for such an extended period of time. The ankle is improving, albeit slowly. Still subjecting myself to ice at least three times a day and lots of ibuprofen.
On a non-running, but oft-mentioned blog topic, I bought my first bag of candy corn for the season. I absolutely love the stuff, but won't let myself have much of it. It has to get rationed out since it is so sickeningly sweet that it can cause an OD very easily. The mallocreme pumpkins are da bomb too, but I didn't want an entire bag of those and I don't like chocolate so the harvest mix bag was not going to cut it for me. So I had my daily small handful as dessert at lunch, so no more candy corn until after dinner tomorrow!
Posted by Blondie at October 3, 2004 12:44 PM
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Long sleeves and shorts are my running outfit of choice too! Add gloves and it's the absolute perfect running weather. :) Hope you enjoy your candy corn...
Posted by: Beth at October 3, 2004 01:49 PM
I share your love of candy corns. I have purchased an embarrassing amount since they recently went on sale for $.99. I love the pumpkins and Indian corn the most! I also love running in long sleeves - enjoy the fall weather :)
Posted by: bridget at October 3, 2004 04:45 PM