10 mile run (this was based on memory, so i really hope we were supposed to do a ten mile run...)

1 hour 17 minutes... the run may have been up to .6 mile short though because its based on measurments my dad made and he doesn't necessarily measure things down to the foot.

When I started out, I really didn't want to be running but by about 5 miles I started to feel pretty good... not really a run fast kind of good, but more of a "its really nice out and this is much better for me than sitting around watching the telly. I started out really tired from axing out stumps of bushes for about 4 hours prior... which earned me 150 dollars by the by.

Two interesting thoughts occured to me on the run. Firstly, if a car were to hit a deer and that deer were to riccochet into someone running breaking their leg, would the driver be held responsible?

And secondly, and this one takes a bit of a story, over a week ago I was running this same strech of road and I see, in the midst of a hard acceleration up a hill, a group of shady looking juveniles being characteristically shady and the like, one of whom I recognize as a kid from youth group at church. The following weekend, my mother goes to church to some prayer service for kids who got killed playing ding-dong-ditch in what I'm told resembled the very beginning and the very end of an epic car chase. Today I see, right next to the place that these kids were glavanting several nights prior, an assortment of crosses next to the road. After thinking about this for a moment I realize that that kid I knew from youth group really was as stupid I had assumed even though he did really well in school. I mean who honestly plays that game once they have a car... although I guess now that I think about it Rob would probably do it.