Running with Rocket

rocket and i just did a run. i noticed my breathing is much different. i could tell i was using a lot less O2. which is great, it just confirms that swimming is really changing my body fast. we were just going to do the lake house to the tree then back home, but we went ahead and continued on to college. i think it's probably close to 3 miles. i don't really know. the temperature has dropped 40 degrees since yesterday. so it was about 30 when we were out. now it's 15. i think we're faster in the cold. i way overestimated it, so i was overheating. shed the hat, then gloves. if we had gone much further i would have taken off my sweatshirt too. i've read some more on open water swimming and am hearing that the low water temperature is one of the things that really makes it difficult. so maybe we should have run naked.

there was a huge horned owl in the tree when we got home.



and my shoes are hammered. i'm bummed because they aren't really that old, so maybe i can find some good insoles. but my knees hurt now. and my ankles were really bothering me during the run. like i had shin splits. but i haven't been running enough for anything to be wrong. i think i'm gonna go throw out those insoles right now.