Cool Runnings!!! Anyone remember that movie? Why can't the weather here relent just a little?

I went to the pool and accidentally fell asleep and woke up with tan lines. Considering my grandmother always criticizes me for looking like a common farmer, I was hoping to stay pale this summer......She's coming next week. Asians never understood why the Western world insists on tanning. Why would one want to promote skin cancer with baking? I don't suppose it helps that I rarely burn and don't wear sunscreen. Ah, the joys of being mellow yellow. All my Caucasian compadres did not heed my motherly advice of wearing sunscreen and left the pool with burns. MWAHAHAHAHA!

Anyway, I've taken up night running as running in the morning was something I decided to abandon after being scarred in college. Imagine a 0530 alarm reminding you to run laps and do monster truck tire flips, and other masochistic chores. I did not build good character during these strength and conditioning times....Instead, my morning laziness has built to evening pursuits of fireflies and getting back into shape.
It is unwise to run in the morning without a good warm-up as one's bones and cartilage expands overnight during the body's restorative sleep. The impact of running on expanded body tissue is purty strenuous on the body, and I don't want to be fifty and looking at the cartilage of a seventy year-old.
Anyway, I take the athletic mutt with me as the froufrou one probably wouldn't survive. More on why I have two dogs instead of one later. I run a half-mile look that looks more like a quarter-mile because of its steep terrain.

Lance Armstrong once said, "Every road is flat if you're tough enough." I think that every self-respecting athlete aware of hills that need to be described in elevation and altitude would know the roads I run are NOT FLAT. I guess I need to keep running until I'm "tough enough." Psh, Lance Armstrong....*grumble*grumble*