Mileage for today: 28.5 Visit 18th House. Starting point is the Ronald McDonald House at Chapel Hill located at . Stopping point is the McDonald's on Huffman Mill Road in Burlington. Today's run is dedicated to the Ronald McDonald House at Chapel Hill and to Denny Clark. Denny is fighting an uphill battle with a brain tumor. Christmas is cancelled Junior. Before departing for the day, I had breakfast at the Chapel Hill Ronald McDonald House and was hoping the day would warm up, but 40 degrees is what the starting temperature would be. Normally that is a nice running weather except I really hadn't packed for chilly type of weather. To complicate things, I asked it the route today was hilly and was told it really wasn't . . . they lied. The Achilles acted up a bit, but I was able to adjust my foot strike it felt fine most of the day. None the less I decided to take it easy today seeing as I ran a bit hard yesterday. It seems like I haven't been getting enough calories the last few days because in spite of it being a fairly easy day, I was starving for a big chunk of it. I polished off a package of tuna, a power bar, 5 gels and 80 ounces of fluid. I was starving when I stopped at the McDonald's. Might have to be a night of more food and less beer . . . perhaps . . . well maybe. Most of the day was spent on Route 54. I counted 6 dead deer along the way. By far the most of any day so far. So, to all the little boys and girls living on 54 between Chapel Hill and Burlington, Christmas is cancelled. It isn't because you were bad, but its a safety issue. Sure Rudolph is an extra and really only needed on cloudy nights, but the thing is the team just can't lug that fat bastard all over the place being down 2 or 3. Besides everyone knows Blitzen is a lazy sack of shit. But I digress . . . The day was pretty nice for running and warmed up to the low 70's toward the end. I stumbled upon about 8 dead fish strewn across a little bridge. Stopped and took my picture with the biggest one (I'll have to send that one to Hoya (Mike Stahr) for my new running2win profile picture). I found two things that I had to pick up, well I didn't have to, but I did anyway. One is a car magnet for UNC. Not sure why I grabbed that, but here it is in my jogger. The other is a mailbox sticker number. I'll be slapping that on the banner. The number is 2. Yes, I'm number 2, or a number 2. |
Day 42 - Chapel Hill, NC to Burlington, NC
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