my morning constitutional
temps were around 30 degrees this morning, which is downright balmy for this time of the year. my route started out east on madison toward downtown then angled south to bethesda park then west along the glacial drumlin trail back into my subdivision. overall, it was a fairly uneventful effort. the only thing of significance happened in the last mile when i was listening to a song on my ipod that i wasn’t familiar with. my brother bought me a cd that i (admittedly) haven’t listened too very often. one of the songs came up on the shuffle and was pretty good so i didn’t skip past it. late in the song, there was a voice over the music saying "hello…" that spooked the heck out of me. my head spun around to spot who the heck is saying hello to me in the wee hours of the morning. needless to say i felt rather foolish and skipped the rest of the song. i ended up with 7 miles at a little less than 8:30 pace and hit the shower.