Twilight Run

Distance:  2.5 miles
Time:  ?
Location:  Yucca Loma to Cronese and back

With some winter weather (finally!) heading our way, I decided to get a run in tonight, which would probably be my last this week.  Rain is forecast for the next three days, so it was now or never.  I also decided to run earlier for a change.  I was getting kind of tired of the late night runs (between 9 and 10pm).  So tonight I set out at just after 6pm.  The sun had just set and my goal was to try to run to the top of the Yucca Loma hill in time to see the last rays go down.  It was a bit too late for that, though.  By the time I got half way up Yucca Loma it was long past sundown and twilight was fading fast.  But I took my phone out in time to capture a couple of pics of the dying light and the clouds forming to the west.  My phone died after that so I wasn't able to time this run.  But it was a decent one.  I didn't feel quite as springy as Monday, and I ate too much when I got home from work, so I was running on a full stomach (never fun).  But all that aside, it went pretty well.  It was nice running with at least a tiny bit of light still, and to get home with the whole night ahead rather than getting home and going straight to bed.  Like I said in my last post, my goal right now is just to maintain.  Two or three runs per week, for the time being, will suffice.  But as soon as I figure out my next 5K, the focused training will be back.  For now, I'll enjoy these lighthearted runs.