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Holy cow, it's going to be 36 tonight.

It'll be a great morning to go run :D

Actually, my long run is on Sunday. I'm getting into a pattern of running three and four days in a row, with increasing miles each day, so as to get accustomed to the Dopey Challenge's increasing distances. Tomorrow is a six-miler, and Sunday is sixteen.

It's not always that cold at Disney in January, though it can be. The first year I did it, there was actually frost on the ground. I was huddled up with some strangers in the starting corral, all bunched up like baby penguins in a creche. And in the Epcot parking lot, there's nothing to break up the wind gusts.

So while I could replicate the conditions out there by getting up and starting my run at around 5:30 am, it's still very dark here at that time, and there's one major complication about running in the dark here that Disney doesn't have. Bears. I would really prefer not to surprise a bear in the dark. At WDW this is not likely to happen, though they do have bears. And just to explain this very simply, I even have a handy illustration.



We didn't do much for Thanksgiving here, but Fox and I tend to keep the holidays pretty low-key. I'm sort of itching to get out and do something today, but I think I'm going to wait until Monday or Tuesday. I'd like to go to Chamblin Book Mine. I mean, maybe tomorrow, especially if I have some things I could pick up at the Asian grocer.

And my vintage-pen-friendly ink should be here today. Time to print off some practice sheets.

Date: 2021-11-26 05:06 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] oracne
BEARS

Date: 2021-11-27 02:05 pm (UTC)
oracne: turtle (Default)
From: [personal profile] oracne
*waves at bear, fails to run away*

Date: 2021-11-28 08:24 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] expandranon
Carry a sacrificial rotisserie chicken with you when you run. If you encounter a bear, throw the chicken at it and beat feet. Upside, you escape the bear. Downside, the bear will now appear regularly on your route, expecting a chicken.

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