Today’s run: 8.03 miles, 1:24:42 plus 1.56 mile cooldown. YT: 554.56. This run was almost identical in pace to my last 8-miler but my muscles and energy felt solid all the way through. Who was that Sara who yesterday had to spend the entire day in bed due to lack of energy? Screw my hormones.

Lots of rain spanking my eyelids today. I love running in the rain!! This one took me under the Williamsburg, Manhattan, and Brooklyn bridges, and then into Battery Park. In other words, my typical run – but apparently I had never done it on a Sunday morning because there was more going on than usual. I saw a delicious looking farmer’s market just south of the Brooklyn Bridge, a deaf-people’s convention at the seaport, bunches of tourists in neon rain ponchos in Battery Park, and a weathered homeless man (or sea captain?) with a tremendous fire-red beard that told me he wasn’t as old as he looked.

In other words, lots of people out and about, rain be damned.