Wednesday, August 11, 2010

Number Crunching

Miles on schedule: 9

Alarm sounded: 5:15 am

Out the door: 5:29:00

Length of time spent staring at smudgy white patch of grass in my yard: 10 seconds

Back inside after realizing smudgy white patch of grass was actually a skunk: 5:29:10

Out the door a second time after turning on porch light to scare away skunk: 5:30

Temperature: 68 degrees

Humidity: 97%

Yuck factor due to excessive humidity: Infinite

Deer seen: 2

Rabbits: 6

Unknown critters rustling in underbrush: 7

Times I had to stop and poop: 2 (once back at the house, once at a port-a-potty)

Sprinklers I ran through: 4

Retied shoe: 1

Other runners spotted: 3

Minutes spent contemplating delicate pink hue of clouds at sunrise after using port-a-potty: 1

Negative thoughts about training: 57

Miles ran: 9.03

Post-run: Drenched from head to toe with sweat


Morgan said...

Frigging loved this! Good job getting out there despite every reason to call it quits. Also, is it skunk season or something? That's the second skunk I've heard of in a weeks time, I don't think I ever even realized skunks were so populous around here! LOL! See you soon!

Jacky said...

Wow! Nice control! Awesome run despite everything! Will try to do that one day... don't know if I'll be able to collect so much data though :p
Well done!

mr loser said...

Funny posts = 1. Lol!