Cubs win! Cubs win!

I did my 10+ miler today and it went reasonably well. I haven't plotted it on MapMyRun yet, but I'm pretty sure it was close to 10.5. Ran out the BART path to the end, partly to find out what wildflowers do in the dead of winter. Turns out some of them, in this temperate climate, bloom (if only modestly).

Me, I feel faster and stronger than I did a year ago, which augers well for my training--if only I can keep from pounding myself into the ground. Today I took a 50-second walk break every 15 minutes and moved along at a respectable pace. The temptation is to push and push, but my brain tells me it is too early in the training cycle. Brain to body: hullllo.
My ankle could just be telling me I ran hard on concrete Friday and then instead of resting Saturday hiked around pretty strenuously with Z. For the first time since I moved to the Bay Area in 1980, I went to Alcatraz. It was my Christmas present from Z and was as much fun as I had hoped it would be. Definitely more fun for me than for Scarface, I'm sure.
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Glad you guys finally got outside. Don't understand how you can be couch potatoes in such a climate. ;)