Running in the Cool Air...Aaahhh!

Tonight I did a 10K run at 5:30 p.m. and the temperature was perfect for running!

I'm sad to see summer go but I love the cooler weather for my runs.  It felt SO good.

The great thing about being a trail runner is having a front-row seat to the slow changing of the seasons.  Being outdoors more often to run, I notice things like the light changing and the colours of the leaves changing.

I did see a few (a very few - no need to get all excited yet) leaves changing colour in the forest tonight, and in the cool breeze a few even fell out of the trees.

I saw squirrels gathering nuts, a deer and a blue jay.  Great run.

Running on the Beach at Cape Hatteras

I've decided that I love to run on the beach!  We were just in Cape Hatteras and we ran on the beach twice and it was fabulous.

I have run on a beach before, but I didn't enjoy it as much.  It depends on the conditions.

On the previous beach I ran on in Florida, the sand was very dry and soft so it was like running through snow.  A great workout but not exactly inspiring.  Also it was very hot that day and there wasn't a whiff of a breeze, and I'm not great with the heat anyway.

In Cape Hatteras though there was a great ocean breeze.  The sand I ran on was hard-packed.  As I ran I could look toward the horizon and see the sky curving around the sand, and I could see a fine mist in the air from the huge waves crashing onto the shore.

Also as I ran I was accompanied by hundreds of tiny little sand crabs that would hear me coming and fling themselves into their little homes before my feet.  How often does that happen to you while you run?

Did I mention I loved it?