What a beautiful morning. No I'm not talking about the temperature, which was a chilly 20 degrees when I started out. I'm talking about the display in the skies.

When I first got outdoors I turned to the east to say good morning to my three training partners: the thinning crescent moon, Jupiter, and Venus. Who says it is lonely running first thing in the morning. I then turned to the north and was greeted by the Northern Lights…and quite a display too: columns of blue/green shifted slowly from east to west while pink rollers drifted from north to south before getting lost overhead. After seeing that I decided to alter my route and head north first so that I could enjoy the view as long as possible. The show didn't last long, though, as the sun soon brightened the sky and a front moved in from the west.

That front moved pretty quickly and after turning back south at mile 5 the clouds had spread over most of the sky, except in the east. At about that point the sun had come up just high enough to paint the bottoms of all those clouds red and orange.

Other than that, my run was uneventful: 10 miles at an easy 7:34 pace on generally flat terrain.

Victor

Cross-training: 0.0 miles
Running: 10.0 miles
Shoes: Heras
WTD running: 16.5 miles
WTD total: 18.0 miles

posted by Not So Competitive Runner at 4:35 PM