Sleepyhead...

...aka me this morning (and also the name of a really good song). My Running Spot group still meets at 8:30 am on Saturday mornings (our winter meeting time) but I have been too lazy to get out of bed and join them. I usually run later in the day most Saturdays, but when I woke up at 9 am I decided that I would take today off. However, I then fell back asleep and woke up an hour later, inexplicably grouchy, with the urge to run the Lunken bike path. Normally you can’t pay me to do Lunken (boring!), but whatever. Off I went to run in a circle around an airport.

I’m so glad I did.

For the first few miles, the trail was all mine. The sun was shining and the long, straight stretches of pavement that usually annoy me actually looked…inviting. The grass and bushes that surround the trail were all dead and brown, but when I looked closely, all the bushes were full of bright red berries. And, there were bunches of red cardinals hopping around in the grass looking for breakfast. I’m used to running through high-traffic, yuppie-infested Hyde Park and I was really excited to see a bit of nature this morning. The Costa Rican rain forest it wasn’t, but I’ll take what I can get. :-)

Needless to say I felt much happier after my un-planned 5-miler. Running really IS cheaper than therapy. (Sadly I have a shirt that says that. And I actually wear it.)