Doggy needs a home!

Yes, I found another stray dog. I swear I do NOT look for them.

Someone dumped this little guy at Hart Park, the base of my hill run. The Sheriff's deputies at the firing range (which is why the first hill is called Pistol) found him and he was super scared.

He's done OK at my house. Except my other rescue dog, Smokey, keeps trying to kill him. Then I gave him a bath and he really freaked out.

Anyway, he's probably a year old, total mix, very very friendly and needs to be fixed.

He'd make a great house doggy!!! And I MUST find him a home!

A Californian photographer was passing by as I was trying to get the little fellow in my truck and snapped this picture.

AWWW!

We called him Rowdy because he would hide and then bark at me. But he's not really very rowdy at all. Now I'm just calling him Buddy.

Last Saturday run before the 1/2 thon!

I'm still convinced I won't be able to finish that Santa Barbara 1/2 marathon next weekend.
WHAT was I thinking signing up for something like that?

I partied too much this summer and didn't stick with workouts, now I'm trying to prepare for 13! miles in two weeks.

My bright idea this weekend was to do 10-12 miles in the hills on Saturday. I made it 11.5 miles and hit every serious hill out there. Now I feel like someone beat me in the legs with a bat. Really smart!

Anyway, here's the start of it up Pistol with Chico looking over his domain.Across the flats at the top of the bluffs. I'm actually carrying water on this run, though I used it mainly for the doggies.

Getting to the top of Hanglider. It looks like the moon up there.

This memorial is at the top of Hanglider. I don't know David Freed. But I like to stand on the block and stretch my calves. Thanks, David!

The view looking west from the top of Hanglider.

This is around the front side of the bluffs. The cut in the top of the hill is where people dig for sharks teeth and other ancient bones from when this was at the bottom of the sea.

Lots of people had digs set up all over the hills on Saturday. Hope they wore breathing masks because this is also prime Valley Fever area and it's nice and dry so the spores can fly right up your nose.

Back across the flats at the top. This is looking northeast-ish.

This is coming up on the mesa loop looking east at Hanglider, where I just was!