High Beams

Distance: 6.5
Quality: 8

Again, Shannon was kind enough to give me a 4:30 am wake up call today. Fortunately I was lucky and she went right back to bed. So I got to sneak out for 6.5 today. I tortured myself on Lago Blvd., which gives me a 2 mile long hill in the middle of the run. Of note, Eric told me a while ago that he was shooting for a fast marathon on 2 mid-week runs and a long run each week. I thought he was crazy, but now I find myself doing the exact same thing. I don't see how people with 2 kids, a job, and a wife could possibly do much more during the week...without harming the relationship.

Rant: high beams in residential neighborhoods

If you find yourself driving down your residential roads in the pre-dawn hours, please don't turn on your high beams. I spend half my morning runs with my eyes trying to readjust to the dark. What on earth do you think is going to jump out and surprise you when you are traveling at 30 mph on a road where most people are still sleeping. Paperboys don't exist anymore, falling saguaro cacti are very rare, and if you hit a Javelina then you get to make Kahlua pig for the neighbors over the weekend. Please ditch the high beams, or at least let me come over to your house to blind you with a camera flash every couple of minutes. I would argue that the road is a lot safer without blind pedestrians walking around, wouldn't you?

Now get back to work.