I was rather nervous this morning but I did it. I completed 12 miles this morning. Started with my usual riverbed trail, cut up through Shady Canyon, and ran around Turtle Rock (it actually looks like a turtle!). I threw some crazy hills into the route and survived. Phew!

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Towards the end of my run, I saw two crows flying across the street. One flew a bit too low and *Smak!* got hit by a car. His friend actually stopped to check him out before flying away.

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By the way, just in case you don’t follow the Tour de France, it starts today!! We have OLN again this year so we’ll get to watch Lance Armstrong’s month-long journey towards a 7th consecutive win and retirement from cycling. I guess it’s time to put that yellow bracelet back on for July! LIVESTRONG, Lance!