Running in the Park

...is not quite what I expected. I was told that running in the park is safest place to run outside of a health club. Running early morning is best because there is the least amount of people there. Ok, makes sense. Then I find out I need to have my driver, Gamar, take me there. So I had to call Gamar at 7am this morning to take me. Yesterday I found out there is a lake at the park you run around and it'a about 1.5km around (or about a mile).

This morning I'm thinking I'm going to run three laps. So I didn't even bother to start my watch when Gamar dropped me off because I already had it in my mind that I'm going for distance. The lap, in reality, is maybe 1/4 to a 1/3 of a mile. After I did my 3 laps in about 10mins (I'm ended up timing it by the number of songs that played on my ipod), I decided I needed to run another three laps.

The park was VERY crowded at 7am. Shocking to me was that everyone was there to exercise. Mostly everyone was walking laps, like Grandpa did in the mall. A few small groups were scattered around doing yoga. I felt like joining in. A few people were running and some were running the opposite direction that I was going. Excellent, now I can race them. I did my best to maintain foreign relations by showing my running competitors how much better and faster I was than them :)

As for the "lake", it was a step from a retention pond but it really reminded me of rock corry in Elmhurst. There was enough water in it so I couldn't see the bottom but it hardly looked filled. And the running path was dirt.