Marvelous Night for a Moon Dance

Today was an exercise in creative scheduling. We have a deadline to deliver a new version of our software by March 1st, so today is the last chance for me to get documentation in. I had been resigned to sacrifice a run, because the way the schedule worked out. But I get into work real early, and I am able to get done before 5 pm. My wife is going out to work on afloat for an upcoming St. Patrick’s Day parade, so I ask her to get some dinner for the kids before she leaves, and I change into my running gear. It is weird, because it is dark, like the morning, but the moon is in a different part of the sky. I have a 1 mile warmup, and 4 miles at 7:29, and then a mile cooldown. It is a pretty cold night, but for this distance, its not so bad, and I am glad to be out at all. My neighbor asks me if I’m cold, and I tell him not anymore- which is true if you keep moving and wear the right clothes. I am back in the house by 7:15, which is the time I have been coming home on most nights this week, and I have stretched, showered and eaten dinner by 8:00 pm.