Day 10

The rain clouds passed through yesterday, leaving behind true fall weather, crisp and tart.

Last night, Josh asked me to get my pitching wedge to practice short chips with me on the carpet upstairs. Actual quote: “Are you just going to sit there on the couch when you can do something with your son?” 

This was hilarious to me - every time I’d said the same thing to him over the last 23 years, he would give me a thousand-yard stare, as if he was a state trooper I was asking to let me off of a speeding ticket this one time please.

Despite this, I wasn’t going to be petty when my son actually wanted me to do something with him, except that my wedge was in my golf bag in my car outside and I really didn’t want to go outside in the cold.

But I love my son and so I went out there and discovered that while it was cold, it wasn’t cold. I kept waiting for the bone chill to hit me, but it was just an illusion, more anticipation then reality.

That was the same for today’s run. 51 degrees and windy, out with Art and his two daughters. Art had texted me this afternoon to let me know his wife was enjoying the blog and offered to walk with me. 

So we got together at about 4:30 at his house. After saying hi to Nicole and the lovely Baby Maizie, and playing hide and seek for a little bit, we bundled Everly and Isla up and shot off. 

And I mean shot! Art was intent on breaking my current record, and pushing his kids in a stroller, he was on an 11:00 pace without lifting his feet from the ground. I felt like a toddler trying to keep up with a grown-up in full stride.

He eased up after a while, and we had a nice walk as it got darker. Art is always good company, and his kids are just excellent. According to my Apple watch, we made the first mile under 14 minutes, and kept a 14 minute-ish pace for the next 3.5 miles, faster than my loop last week with Avina.

(Of course, Art claims that his watch had us going substantially slower, but everything is relative - if my watch is miscalibrated, it was similarly miscalibrated on all of my other walks, which means I was still faster on this walk than any of my other walks to date. So there, Art.)

Fun day!