[Today’s run: about 6 miles]
I ran with the Boardtown Runners group this morning. Dr. Seth and I started out ahead of the regular crowd. We went to the first water stop, had a drink, turned around and came back. In all that time we didn’t see anyone. It was a loop course of 11 miles and I think the main bunch went the other way around the loop!
But we had a stimulating conversation. I got to express my deep frustration and anger about the recent marriage developments, which I won’t go into further here. He sees things differently and is a calming person. So that was good for me. He didn’t change my mind about anything, but I started to feel that maybe the rest of the country hasn’t gone completely insane, or at least the ones that think like him.
And he regaled me with stories about his son’s recent wedding, which sounded like a wonderful event.
We ran through a couple of rain showers. I like running in the rain, it is usually cooling and refreshing.
My truck (’97 Toyota Tacoma) is starting to have trouble with the clutch/transmission. It gave me a bit of trouble again this morning. But I can usually convince it to work. So far I have been able to. Normal “feeling” of the clutch is to have it disengage about halfway down. But it gets into these moods when the peddle goes all the way down and may or may not disengage at all. That’s a bit of a bummer if you are coming up to a stop sign. But I either persuade it by pumping the peddle a few times or the engine just has to die. I plan to change the clutch hydraulic fluid and see if that helps.