Notes
If the first thing you do on the first full day of Vacation is go for an easy 4½, you MIGHT be a Runner ... When you plan it out ahead of time, and commit the Mile Marks and Turnaround to Memory? That's when you KNOW you're a Runner. When you forget where those Markers are, and where that turn IS exactly, and run a little further, just to make SURE that you have it covered? That makes you ... ??? Me, I guess.
It was pretty cloudy, and even sprinkling a little when I left, but as the Sun struggled to break through the clouds, the Humidity started pumping on the Island. There was a Southerly Breeze going, but it was at my back on the way out = I could hardly notice it. I got 15 Blocks up the road in about 8 minutes; '15 blocks per mile' I reckoned to myself and paced myself accordingly for the 2nd mile up. Now, I don't know who set the OCMD Public Works Schedule, but I certainly wasn't expecting to come across so many Trash Trucks on a Sunday Morning; considering the number of restaurants on my side of the route, it made for quite a funk.
As I said, somehow, I had forgotten where my Turnaround was ... There's a sign over the street for Northbound traffic that says "Welcome to Delaware" however, I wasn't ON that side of the Street. Similarly, there's a sign on the median that says "Weloome to Ocean City, Maryland" which would have been in my rear-view as I ran past it. So I just kept going a few blocks up into Fenwick until I saw anything with a 302 Area Code.
Mission Accomplished, I pulled a 180 and headed for home, on the same sidewalk I'd gone out on. As many Runners as there were out, it wasn't really much of a problem "sharing lanes" Everyone was very pleasant, with waves & nods of acknowledgement. I also notice several post-run folks strolling along with their Dunkin cups. I notice a dude on the opposite side of the street, and we "raced" for half a mile or so, until he ducked in between a pair of Beachfront hotels. It was Low Tide at this time, but again, I didn't want to run on the beach and zoom past our hotel, turning my easy 4½ to something further ... plus, D'Girls would be getting up soon, probably