Kevin decided to join me this week at the very last minute, and so we headed off with the group from Greenlake. We ran the first mile with Talena, which was an unexpected treat! Then she turned off to do her 13, and we kept going towards Ravenna and through a bunch of lovely, misty neighborhoods. It was so awesome running with Kevin again! We were doing 5 run/2 walk, which worked out pretty well. Around mile 4, Talena caught us and we ran with her (and Ann and Lisa) for about another mile until we hit North Seattle CC. Again Talena headed off to continue her long run, and we headed back toward the lake to finish up. It was a pretty good day walk/run wise; though cardiovascularly I felt crummy, my leg felt pretty good, and even pain-free at the end, which is a great sign.
Throughout the run, I kept seeing some nice trees and such to photograph, but nothing that stopped me in my tracks it was so pretty/cool/unusual. About 1/4 mile from the finish, as we were coming back down to the path around the lake, I felt for my iPhone and couldn't find it. Kevin convinced me I left it at home, though I was certain I had brought it with me, and thought I had felt it hitting my hip when we first started out. I chalked it up to misremembering, and really, they aren't light and I figured I would have felt it fall out or heard it hit the ground if I'd lost it. Kevin offered to retrace our route with the car, but there were so many people out I figured someone would have already picked it up so I thought it unlikely we'd find it even if it wasn't at home.
We had decided to go out to breakfast, so headed to Pig & Whistle for some just-okay breakfast and football. We got home, walked in the door, and the phone wasn't where I knew it would have been if I had left it. We called it, and no ring. Gah! I really had lost it! So I called Cheryl to see if anyone had found it in the group and she said she'd call me if that was the case. Just then, call waiting started beeping, and it was a very nice guy who said he'd found my phone in the middle of the street while out walking, and rather than "letting it get smashed by a car" he thought he'd pick it up. He must have been waiting for it to ring to figure out who it belonged to, because as soon as I called it he called me. He offered to meet in front at the Latona Pub in 20 minutes, so off we went. We pulled up, and there he was, handed it over, me thanking him profusely all the while. What a nice guy!
So the moral of the story is there are still nice people in the world willing to go out of their way to do something nice. I am going to take the first opportunity I can to do the same.
However, no picture of trees or breakfast or otherwise, so instead I give you this, taken from my office window last Wednesday:
Camera Bag app, Colorcross. I love getting in to work early this time of year, the sunrises are just amazing in fall/winter.
