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November 5, 2005
Beautiful Sun!
We hadn't seen the sun in several days, and it was wonderful to see it this afternoon! Despite the lovely radiant heat, it was still rather chilly with a biting wind. By evening, it had become cloudy again with some light snow showers. I'm beginning to get the feeling that winter weather here is just a smorgasboard of unending variety, and that the weather changes rather fast!
The dog (she's a border collie named June) and I went out for this week's "long" run, 8 miles on the Gardiner railroad bed, the same spot as last week's "long" run. We started at the same spot again, where the trail begins in town, and ran out the railroad bed for 4 miles, and then returned, total time was 1:03:45.
The run itself felt great, I think the cinder surface of the railroad bed trail is just about the most perfect running surface ever created, soft and even all the way. As I've previously mentioned, the trail runs though the Gardner river valley, and the views are just outstanding. This view in this area of the valley is dominated by a mountain called Electric Peak. Here's a link to an Electric Peak webcam, which I think is really cool, though I'll refrain from saying any less cool things about the webcam's sponsoring organization.
Whitetail deer and pronghorn were out in full force today, I guess they've climbed down from the mountains for the winter. I don't blame them, it looks snowy up there! However, I have heard that when the prey herds come down from the mountains, so do the predators (wolves, coyotes, and mountain lions). I haven't heard of any sightings in this area yet, but I'll keep my eyes and ears open.
I also did a little spinning on the bike trainer, for 45 minutes, and core exercises.
Just a regular day in paradise...
Posted by Meghan at November 5, 2005 7:15 PM