They all can't be "easy" runs.

4 on the trails. 

4 on the trails. I talked way too long to the shirtless tire dragger this morning. 

1 on the trails. Then 3.5 miles hood route.

on the trails at noonish

4 on the trails. Then it got crowded out there. 1.5 hood route. 

So, non-running thing that has taken over my life-

I have had a drainage problem in the street in front of my house for years. I have patiently swept out the gutter after every rainfall or whenever my neighbor on the one side of my house runs her sprinklers, which is like constantly. About a year ago, I filed a complaint with the city, they sent out 3 trucks, 10 guys, surveyed the problem and left. So I complained again, and again, and again. Some of my neighbors got involved with the complaining, because some of my other neighbors have taken to driving as fast as they can through my "moat", thereby splashing water onto my cars in the diveway. Total jerk move. you can see that the standing water has damaged the concrete curb, the asphalt road, and that there is a layer of slippery algae, even when the water is swept out. My one neighbor wrote a letter to the mayor about this with pictures and explanations of the safety hazzard. 

So today there is a crew out in front of my house sawing concrete and jack hammering. I went out on my run happy that this will finally be over. There are 2 humps in the pavement caused by tree roots that are holding back water. They are only removing one of them. I talked to the contractor and pointed and showed him that there will be standing water at the end of my driveway. He said he was doing what he was instructed to do by the city. I said "but you would only have to takeout another 10 feet of curb, and this will be over." He said we'll see if this drains. I said it absolutely will not. You can see the standing water on the other side, right now, as we are talking. It will not drain, and at the end of all this today, I will still have a "moat" that my neighbors can race through at great speed and splash mud on my cars. So I then called the city, and left a very polite message. I thought I had hung up. But I did not. I left a 9 minute profanity filled rant that I wish I could take back.

2 on the trails. too many unleashed dog walkers out there. So I took it to the 3.5 miles hood route. Dishwasher conditions. 

4.5 on the trails. The weather was slightly better this morning. I had some digestive issues out there, and had to stop. 

It took a long time, but the moat drained. It's still slimy and cracked curb and asphalt, and it drained way too slow, but it drained. I was wrong. 

4 on the trails. A lady that couldn't control her large dogs (that were taking up the entire trail width) told me to "chill out" when I passed her on the far side of the trail with my hands high in the air. 

You know, with all of the tributes to the Queen going on lately, my favorite memory of her is when she threw out the first pitrch at that Angels - Mariners game back in '88. You know, when Enrico Pallazzo sang the national an then and then was ump. 

3 on the trails, then 3.5 hood route. I came home soaked. Song of the run: https://youtu.be/z6R4DDuno5o

4 on the trails. Weather was better somehow. Pace was faster. 

So, tonight a football team from Baltimore comes down to Venice, FL to play and the game will be on ESPN, I hear. Venice is predicted to be humiliated. We are in the season where it has been raining every evening. Who knows? Maybe it will be rained out. 

2 on the trails. I talked to the shirtless tire dragger for a while. I guess he has an obstacle course race in Vermont coming up. Also he wants me to run a 5k with him in 2 weeks. I told him I am nowhere near race fit. He says he can get me in free. I don't know. Then 3.5 miles hood route. 

on the trails. talked to the shirtless tire dragger way too long about hurricane prepping, etc.