Full Moon or Fool Moon?

4.5 miles - Sure felt like it last night at the 6pm twilight run when the Kristen/Ken duo and I headed out on the lower Beaver Ave trail along the river. Kristen with the sole headlamp, talk about rebels... I felt like I was in good hands with these garmin bound, head lamp wearing outdoorsy people. Much more prepared than I! It was great that they organize the weekly group run. It was kinda cool cause we only really needed the headlamp in the snow/ice covered trail areas. Otherwise the bright moon reflecting off of the snow made it pretty bright out. Part of my new years resolution #2 = glass half full. So I'm thinking it was cool that even though it was like 20 degrees, dark and icy... it was sorta peaceful, illuminating and made me feel darn loyal to my running program. Heck yeah! And it does beat the hour on the treadmill in the basement.

Incidentally, I got to thinking I needed a garmin to track my runs, so instead of spending $$$.$$ I don't have, I looked for an iphone app last night and found one for a mere$4.99 and I'm super excited to use it (once it gets above 10 and some of the snow on the sidewalks melts. :). It tracks your runs through the GPS on the phone and alerts you at certain mileage points and can do a zillion amazing things like track your routes and store them and tell your times and when you have good vs bad runs, etc., etc. I'm just excited to know the mileage I'm doing when I'm out and about in the neighborhood. Now if I could just learn a trick to using the iphone with mittens on I'd have it made!

:-) p.s. new veggie stirfry last night included cauliflower and zucchini... one of my best batches yet. However, I did follow it up with some gummy heart candies. After all, there's only 2 more weeks left to purchase these precious gems!