Why is 60 degrees the best weather to run in?
I decided to try a new route today–one I eyed in the car one day on my way back from the corner grocery store.
There’s one big hill on the route–and several small slopes. It passes the new student houses that a private contractor built over the summer, and it passes the corner grocery store. Then it winds through a residential area, passes a golf course (which was once an 18-holer and is now a 9-holer) and a Greek Orthodox Church, then winds through some more residential streets.
The last mile and a half go by a gas station, liquor store, and a Methodist Church, and through some more residential streets, before ending up back next to the new student houses. It was 4.2 miles in all, and nothing on my body hurt–not my feet or my knees (well, they hurt just a bit, in the last mile or so), and the best part was, right as I passed the Methodist Church, it started to very lightly rain. It’s my favorite kind of weather to run in.
And my current favorite running song–”Bad” by U2–started at just the right spot in the route for me to sprint without getting exhausted before reaching home. “If I could, you know I would, if I could, I would, let it go….”
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