12 / 5 -- by abby

a funny thing happened on my run on saturday ... the SUN CAME OUT. i mean, when we moved here, we understood that there like 340 sunny days a year, or something like that. and that was massively important to me because i am some kind of sun freak. it's the vitamin D, i swear it. anyway, it turns out that you can call it a "sunny" day as long as the sun is out for like a minimum of 2 hours or something. so in other words, it's not really all that sunny here, necessarily. like maybe it's clear at 5am when you take the dogs out, but by the time you actually have coffee and wake up it's cloudy. this is mostly in the winter. in the summer it's pretty much always sunny. and i can't really complain about the winter because i LOVE the winter and obvs you have to have clouds to make the snow and whatnot.

ANYWAY. this is all just to say that i have been missing the sun. it went somewhere, like australia, and it's been weeks since i've seen it. so saturday, behold: sun. meow sun meow!

so i ran 12 miles and it was fine. i went out easy and light on my feet and came back full of sports beans but still feeling light. today (sunday) i went out early in the (sunny!) cold and knocked out an easy 5 since tomorrow i can't run due to the long and hideous inteview process at MSU (i'm interviewer, not interviewee, thankfully), and this week is all wonky because i have to run my 20 miles on friday instead of saturday since i'll be in denver will all my family and etc etc etc. so i've had to move everything up some i'm ready/rested for friday.

the 20-miler will happen on denver's highline canal trail, which is a nice crushed gravel trail that goes all over denver metro for like a billion miles. my mom's going to ride SAG on her bike so i don't have to carry anything, and hopefully neither of us will freeze to death (forecast looks good, but ya never know).

and that is the story/plan.