Week Six, Day Three (Win)

Motivation:

This morning I set out on a run that I didn't have much faith in. I was sleepy, my back kind of hurt, and I just wasn't feeling it.  I really wanted to be back home in bed. But, I got up, got dressed and hit the road!

I decided to take a route that would be longer than I needed, but I wanted to familiarize myself with it so I was comfortable with going on the canal path.  It was a nice run, and on the roads there were very few cars, and I saw only two other runners and two people on bikes on the canal.  The canal was full of water and luckily was in the shade the whole way!

Just before reaching the main road I saw there was a path that veers off from the canal that goes up through a medical offices complex.  I knew that if I continued going along the canal that when I reached the street I would be at the bottom of the big hill from yesterday. But, by taking the path I was able to have a more gradual incline on the way to the top of the hill.  It was cheating, a little, I know, but I got a little reward at the end.  As I rounded a corner near the end of the driveway I saw a baby owl run into a burrow in the ground.  The momma Burrowing Owl was not pleased to see me standing there watching them, or even taking a picture of her.  She was making false starts like she was going to come running at me. So I snapped my picture with my phone and continued on my way.  But alas, that cute picture has disappeared into cyberspace because I can't find it on my phone, or on Facebook or Endomondo.

Maybe tomorrow I'll run the same route in the hopes of seeing the baby and momma once again.