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1 down, many more to go! (depends on which aspect of challenge - Classic, personal, etc) …but it wasn’t easy. Missed the group run due to other obligations - but while it meant I was running alone, I also as running when it as dry! Saw Steve and Bob out on the same course - though much further along than I as (I ran it backwards essentially) and at least one other runner who potentially was running the course as well, but that was about it - the weather kept all but 2 groups of pedestrians off the trails. (I did pause to take a picture of a mother and son by the falls).
No, the bigger issue was energy level and breathing - this kind of change in weather triggers my asthma, and I had left my inhaler at home (grr) so it was an arduous run despite the pace.
one shoutout to Bert Adams who drove by just as I was dying on the steep arboretum hill…just the encouragement I needed