Subject: silver lining on this heat/humdity This might sound totally corny, but I thought I'd share. Last night was a typically hot/soupy night. But the plan must go on, so I did my long run despite working late. When running through marshy areas, the light and sound show was simply amazing. The most intense for me was in the valley near severn run on dicus mill road (I'm training for lake placid so long runs need hills! ). The chorus of frogs and insects was deafening, and the fireflies were going nuts. There had to be hundreds of thousands of them all through all the trees and bushes (which form a canopy over the raod ) and they were lighting up like it was going out of style (I guess for them and their short lives, it is! ). I literally just stopped for a second and took it all in and got chills and it was this sort of spiritual experience where I was just in awe of such an amazing scene right here in MD within a few hundred yards of I-97. Anyway... get out for a soupy late night run through the woods this month and you might just have one of the most amazing runs of your life. I even lost awareness for a few moments that my shirt and shorts and socks felt/looked like I had just gotten out of the pool. Happy training! Josh Edited by JoshKaptur 2010-06-17 8:30 AM
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