Today’s Run:  8.50 miles

Today we ran on the new Highway!

I had mentioned in a previous post about how they are making the Highway close to our house into a 4 lane highway.  I told you how we had to run on the two lane part of the highway that still had traffic.  It was spooky…well, today we ran on the new highway side!  Cool beans!

The road is not complete~not by a long shot.  It does not even have asphalt on it (asphalt is my friend).  It does have layer upon layer of various types of dirt and crushed rock (the rock is so fine it is a dust almost) and a layer of spray on oil type stuff.

They sprayed to oily/tar type stuff on the road bed about a week ago.  We decided on our run this morning to go see if it was dry yet.  It was!  YAY!!!  That meant we could run on it without getting stuck to that “stuff”.

We took off on the new Highway. It was literally smooth.  With all the different layers they put on the road bed to prepare it for the asphalt, it was almost springy.  We had Happy Feet!!!  What a great time!

We needed eight miles for our training program this morning.  We went a bit farther.  We could see at the crest of the upcoming hill the place where the oily/tar stuff abruptly ceased.  Well, you cannot just stop when the end is in sight.  Right?  So, we ran as far as we literally could and then turned around and came home.

It was only 64 F. when we left the house.  The humidity was pretty high but it was a real pleasure to be out this morning.  I hope you are jealous~because you should be!