Dog Walkin'

Gracie and Anne following a walk last summer...
once we get a new camera, I'll be able to post more updated pix!
Walk: 2.5 miles in 40:00 min. @ 7:30 a.m.
Weather: Mostly Cloudy, 52°F, 42% Humidity, Wind: From W @ 12 mph; feels like 52°F.
Pace: 16:00 min/mile
Course: Around our neighborhood.

After five days having passed by without lacing up my running shoes and hotting the pavement, this morning I resolved to at(at the very least) get out for a walk. For the previous four evening's I had been planning to go for a walk with my wife, my dog, or both, but tiredness and a lack of motivation stood in the way.

Rollin gout of bed, I had decided that "enough was enough" with my waiting to go to the doctor's on Tuesday (a meeting during which he will tell me "nothing is wrong that I can tell... run when you'd like") until getting out and, to be honest, the sitting around was beginning to bum me out. So after checking my e-mail, drinking two cups o' joe, and sitting for fifteen minutes, I woke our dog Gracie and brought her with me for a short (leisurely?) walk around the neighborhood.

Just one time in the past Gracie came with me to a road race, a benefit for the local dog shelter. This morning, however, she is my companion for a walk. The weather was perfect this morning, and the winds remarkably calm, so I deep quite lay upon the neighborhood save the chattering of birds. Gracie and I walked through the streets, I trying to identify the birds by song and Gracie searching for a grey squirrel or two to pester...

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