Bridges!

So the weather isn't holding. Sigh. But once the weather turns once, I become an eternal optimist.

Which made for a chilly run this morning.

Albeit a beautiful one.

Baseball, Ivy League, Gorgeous and I had all planned to do some part or another of the East Side Bridges run - a run that would take us over the Brooklyn Bridge and back, then over the Manhattan, the Williamsburg and over to Queensboro.

Once I met up with Ivy League, with a surprise Oklahoma added in, that plan had already been scrapped. Baseball wasn't feeling well and Ivy League didn't want to run that far.

Racing down the hill on Union, I got a bit warm. So I took my jacket off.

It's not like we were about to go over a set of bridges, or anything.

And it's not windy in New York.

Optimism at work.

We kept up a nice pace until Court and Union, where I dropped back to run with Baseball and Gorgeous.

I pushed the pace a bit, but not too much, over the Brooklyn Bridge. On the way back, Ivy League and Oklahoma looped back to meet up with us, where Oklahoma and I picked it up the rest of the way back over the bridge.

There, we split, with Ivy League, Oklahoma and me journeying onward to the Manhattan Bridge, after a detour to the courthouse and back.

Surprisingly, I was able to keep up over Manhattan, even though I was feeling a bit off. Likely because Ivy League's foot was bothering him.

If only I weren't so wind-blown! Even my hands were cold, which almost never happens when I'm running.

I have a theory, though. Normally, I am so over-bundled that my hands are a good place to let off excess heat. When I'm dressed like a sane person would dress on a run in 40-degree weather, my hands don't get that extra heat and, so, they freeze.

Brr.

Oklahoma went back over the Manhattan. Ivy League decided to save his foot. I was feeling funny enough that I didn't want to go over the Williamsburg by myself, so I went with him. Did a jog over to the 4 at Brooklyn Bridge, then got off and walked the rest of the way home.

I miss the bridges! I must figure out ways to add them in, even if I have to do shorter runs.

Smiling!

And, perhaps, we will get a chance to do the full bridges run sometime soon, when the weather is even nicer! Suntan, anyone?