White Lines

At 07:13, I started a 4.99 mile run, that lasted 36:22 (min:sec), that averages out to a pace of 7:19, with an estimated burn of 586 calories. I then went home and had a blueberry and banana smoothie, yogurt with cherries and 2 slices of rye bread, for a caloric gain of about 900, a little under one third of today's recommended count.

I hadn't reached more than a half mile from my house, when a car pulled out into the pedestrian cross walk zone of the street, almost striking me as I entered it. The driver hadn't bothered to slow down and stop at sign about 3 yards earlier. Luckily for her, I look both ways before entering the street, and stopped before she did. Had I not done so, she would not have been able to stop fast enough to prevent a collision.

I didn't really think about this too much for the rest of the run. I quickly shifted my mind to things like trying to catch up the cyclist in front of me, running down side streets to keep moving during stop lights, and considering how hard to push to catch up the the runner in front of me. A great deal of time on the run is spent sizing up other runners. "How hard does it look like she's running?" "What kind of mp3/earphone set-up does he have?" "What does her stride look like?" "At what area on the other side did I see these two, so how fast are they running?"