Beautiful crisp clear morning, 37 deg and only 97% humidity (ok at least it wasn’t 100%). Venus shining really bright in the predawn sky.  Nothing like an early easy 10 miler.

Off to do stuff today...  have a great Saturday everyone.

qotd: If you decorated, is the X-mas stuff still up? When do you usually take it down?

For us it’s usually done on the new year’s break.  Lights and other stuff away and tree in the huge recycling pile. My wasn’t the first tree there by the way.

10 soaking wet trail miles this morning. Radar said rain would stop, and it was wrong.  Toes were pretty cold by the time we were done.  One of those mental runs as we could have cut it short twice, but kept plowing on.  C&O 20 miler tomorrow.

Would have loved to have seen Venus, but too cloudy out.

QOTD: We usually leave our tree up until Epiphany, which is tomorrow.  Need to light the way for the Three Wise Guys Men to show up o the 12th night.  Same with outside lights, they'll be on tonight for last time.

Nope. There was one dude in shorts and a tank top but the temp at the start was about 25F. I did get warm out there but not too bad. As usual I left shortly after finishing but I think I placed right up there. Gonna get back to the cabin and sign up for a couple more. Fun stuff.

12.5 rainy, blustery miles.  Not too cold, lower 50s.  I love stormy weather, and we're in for a few days of it.  I know a couple people doing a 24 hour race at Crissy Field in San Francisco today, and they are probably not loving it.  

I haven't been snowshoeing in years.  Used to really enjoy it, should try to get up to the snow more often.

QOTD: we don't put up much in the way of Christmas decorations so it's easy to take it down, usually around new year's.  Although there is still a stack of Christmas cards sitting on the dining room table, which I will probably not get around to answering...

I had a bit of a set back with the flu and took another day off . We are waiting on the storm that is over by Gatsby now , it's due here later with feet of snow in the Sierra . We may get some down here , the forecast is all over the place .

QOTD: We take down our outside lights on New Years Day and that's is pretty much all we do decoration wise .

5 mile yesterday then a massage and then a pedicure....was a nice sunny day.  Should be nice today too for my 12.  Maybe windy.

20 miler on the C&O turned into 16.5, but was a good run.  Where we parked, the trail is still blocked going North for some construction that was supposed to be done months ago.  We headed South and at 8.25 miles the trail was pretty washed out with overflow.  Didn't want to go through ankle deep water and run 11.5 miles with soaked feet, so turned around and caught Jess on her way out. She turned with me and we ran North into a strong headwind. I cussed a few times as the gusts were up to 40 mph (hat blew off 2 times).  Ended up with 9:26 pace for the run and DW was in the low 10:20 range, so pretty good given the wind (it's totally flat).  I passed a heavyset man riding his bike into the wind.  Think I scared him pretty good when I said "HI" (pretty loud as I was just next to him ).

I prefer to run into the wind on the first part, so was really hoping we could have gone North first.  Next time I'll have to drive to a different section so we have options.

Football now and taking the tree down.   I put the tree outside the patio and dump bird seed all over it.  We'll see birds for the next several weeks, and usually a few Cardinals which is DW's favorite.