I ran 5.33 this am with the mutts who behaved nicely.  Could have been the after work run with them yesterday and not enough time to recover.  Ran with a friend last night and it got very, very dark on us making the last miles very, very slow so we didn't sprain an ankle.

QOTD: On my long runs I have a pack so I will bring the camera but otherwise I have two dog leashes in my hand and can't carry anything else.  Thinking of buy some light weight thingy ma jig to carry a camera.  I asked Burke about his flip belt but he never responded.

By the way AT your porn this morning was breath taking!!!

I don't have much to say....

but I wanted to say I agree that the fall pics AT are great.  The red leaves reminded me of a hike we did last Saturday at Flat Rock Trail @ Colonel Denning.  There was a section that had trees like that off to the side of the trail a good distance.  Coming down the mountain in the afternoon, the sun came through those red leaves and caused the most amazing reddish/pinkish light onto the trail.  I have never seen anything like it before.  Of course I did not have a camera with me .

11 or so miles over the hills. I ran up all the hills, and it felt easy. Must have been the wonderful foliage colors distracting me. Funny enough, even my shoes were matching the colors.

Unfortunately, I had so much fun that I forgot all about a later appointment for volunteering for the upcoming Tussey Mountainback, and ended up (at least freshly showered, but hungry and thirsty like a lion in the desert) a few minutes late at the running club's storage unit to pack the aid station bins with all the supplies. Life, or fate, punished me immediately when I opened up "my" first bin - let's just record that when we cleaned the bins a few weeks ago, we must have missed one, and now I know what PB&J sandwiches look like after having been stored in a non-climate-controlled storage unit for a whole year.       

I did penance for having had too much fun arriving late and cleaned out the bin (read: threw out almost all of the contents, as they were covered in inch-thick mold and slime and smelled accordingly). I'm sure this will give me a few Karma points which I will use up at some future race. 

QOTD: Very rarely, but today I did. Unfortunately I encountered difficulties uploading the pictures, so I'll post them later.

Up in Seoul today at a big fancy hotel.  It's located next to a little Mountain so I ended up doing 9 mi on the trails this morning.  There is an ancient fortress from the BC37~AD668 period (yes you read that correctly) up there so I guess you could say that I did some sightseeing as well. Really nice seeing the sunrise reflecting on the Han River below.  I should have brought my camera!!!!  The leaves haven't started turning yet so.....  It was a great little run though.

qotd:  see above, I typically don't bring my phone with me.