It has been quite some time since I updated this. It started out with being busy, but it continued that way because of a combination of laziness and not knowing what exciting thing to put down. Since not much is exciting around here, I wasn’t getting help on that front.
I’m still busy. I really need to get my taxes done and I haven’t even opened up a tax program. I’m concentrating mostly on going through all my financial papers and getting them filed. Once I’ve done that, everything left will be relevant to taxes.
I have still been running insane distances. Today I ran two loops of the four I need to do on my ultra at the end of May. I felt better when I did it this time; Better than last week. Unfortunately, conditions went downhill (and not in a good running way) on the second loop. The first loop was fairly dry and had good traction. I did begin to hate horses for all the wrecking of the trails their hooves have done. When I did the second loop, the snow had started to accumulate, and it was sticky. It didn’t happen to the people I was with, but my shoes kept picking up. Every hundred meters I would have to shake my feet to get off the snowball that had stuck there. If I didn’t, it would feel like I was running in high-heel shoes. Not comfortable.
And to think it was twenty on Tuesday.
A few weeks ago, while I was at my parents I ran through a herd of cows. I had discovered a good loop to run, but some cowboys were shepherding their cows down the road to another field. I asked a small girl on a horse if it was okay to run through, and she said it was okay. She was the only figure of authority I had access to, so I had to trust her. The cowboy at the other end of the herd told me I was very lucky. Cows are protective of their calves. In my heart I knew that already, which is why I tried to stay as far from the cows as possible. I did help get a few of them into their new field quicker though.