My mouth is still giving me problems so I decided that since I really couldn’t eat supper, I’d just run a little bit instead.  I imagined that with each step I was taking, the hot steam from the asphalt was healing my mouth…and maybe moisturizing my 40 year old skin.  What can I say, when I’m tired and I don’t feel like running, I play mind games to help me get through it.  About halfway through the run, it started a light drizzle and it felt great.  It really cooled things off and I think I sped up a little….just a little. 

On a humorous note, if you’ve ever had the pleasure of running with Mr Xctmnt, you know that he sweats more than an ice cold glass of water sitting on concrete in August.  I mean that when he takes his shirt off after running, he actually rings the sweat out of it like it was a dishrag.  Also, if you’re familiar with our neighborhood, you know that fire ants are a big problem for us.  There’s a fire ant mound every two feet in everyone’s yard.  Well, after running 3 miles today, Paul took of his shirt and tossed it on the side of the road.  After I was done, I picked it up for him because it was lying on top of an ant hill.  Normally, those ants would be crawling all over anything that was lying on top of their home.  Not today!  That sweaty shirt actually KILLED a few of those ants.  We may be on to something….instead of spending major bucks on ant killer, maybe Paul can just run around the yard and sweat!

This is just a quick post to let everyone know I had a good training run today.  It was longer than normal for a week day run for me as I ran 4 miles in 42 minutes.  I’m hoping to get the same type of run in Thursday.  Until then….this is Flash and I’m running on faith the hot weather is gone and the cooler weather is here to stay!

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