Reservoir Dogs

69°, 60% humidity at the start
75° at the finish
15.5 miles
2:30
9:40 pace
i didn't have a lot of confidence starting out on this one. had a hard time rolling out of bed at a decent time but drove to town and was on the road by 8 after a pit stop. this is one of my favorite routes in charlottesville because it is relatively flat, covers some beautiful countryside and is a loop that once you commit going down the hill to the reservoir @ mile 5 there's no turning back. stopped at the top of the reservoir hill to pet two collies. aside from them the most interesting sighting along the way was rich kovatch, an old running partner, who has done this same loop with me many times in the past, passing me in his car at the hunt club store junction of the run, one of the places we would always stop to tank up on fluids. alas, rich is limited to a max of around 50 minutes around town on a sunday nowadays for his long run, but he still gets out there.
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