Into the hills

Took all the dogs on a little 5 mile run into the hills on Sunday. I'm avoiding cleaning the house!

Here's the start at "pistol range".



UP the hill for a mile


Some wildflowers are just coming up. My friend Cyndi, who's a naturalist, says these ones are called "blue dicks" but I think she just gets a chuckle hearing us say, "Oh look at the nice blue dicks coming up..."

This is starting the last mile where you go down, up, down, up, around, down up and up up up for a while.

It was raining and MUDDY (which will have consequences for me later)!

View of "hanglider" from the top. Ooops! Here's what my GPS looked like after I took a little spil in toad's gully.


And here are my pants. I got a couple scrapeys but nothing too serious. It was especially nice after I fell when all my dogs jumped on my to make sure I was OK. Thanks doggies!

DEETs:

4.77 miles

1 hour

12:35 average pace

6:25 best pace (and that was even downhill, yikes I was going slow!)

560 calories burned (that's ALL?

Foggy bottom river run on Saturday

I did close to 7 miles Saturday and it was fogggeeeee down by the river.

And yeah, it was the coyote run again on the north side of the river west of Stockdale bridge and YES, another coyote sighting!

This time Boxcar spotted him first and ran after him. I thought for sure it was another ambush, but I think it was a lone coyote cause he took off and Boxcar chased him into the brush then lost him and finally came back to me. Dumb dog!

Deets:

6.93 miles

1:10 minutes (hey, I had to deal with the dumb dog!)

10:12 average pace

6.14 best pace

730 calories burned

Padre back in biz

The historic Padre Hotel, katty corner (or is it kitty corner?) from our building has been refurbished, revamped and reopened.

This shot is from before it officially reopened. I've had drinks there twice with friends now, it's really cool!

Puffy clouds

We've had some nice rain lately and I love the after-rain clouds, though this is kind of a wierd shot on my way to work last week, I think...