Run: 8.2 miles in 1:00:20 min. @ 6:40 a.m.

Weather Report: Mostly Cloudy, 57°F, 91% Humidity, Winds: From SW @ 5 mph; feels like 55°F.

Pace: 7:21 min./per mile avg.

A wonderfully (and surprisingly) cool July morning for a run! After running only a quick two miles last evening, it is easier for me to pretend that my knees and ankles don't hurt, especially as I get caught up in the sunshine, breeze and pace.

It was very exciting to come home and track my course on Yahoo! Maps. (Thanks again go out to "patrick" who recently properly introduced to this function for the site via a comment he posted earlier this week.) This is the first time I have gone out for a long run with the thought in my mind that I would be going home and using the online program to gauge the length of the run.

As I was running I could not help but visualize (kind of like the pic centered above)myself as the long purple line crawling across the map, charting the distance of each step (or point) on the map. Careful not to run down any "One Way" streets, as it seems to throw off the course, due, I think, to the software's default adherence to rules of the road, I attempted to mentally remain a few blocks ahead of myself in an effort to "controllable vary" the course, adding familiar streets to common roads in my mind as I move...

Breathe in, breathe out... YOU AND I ARE ALIVE!