Not a bad way to kick off 2023. I hadn’t done trail miles in a while so I headed over to Burke Lake Park. I should not have been surprised by how crowded the park was, considering it was 63° on New Year’s Day. It was busy, though, all the way around the lake loop. By the time I completed a loop and switched over to the high school cross country course, the sun was going down, crowds were thinning and the temperature was dropping. I called it good for the day once I hit 6 miles and did some drills. By the time I left it was dark and the park gates looked about to close. It’s been a productive week-plus off of work for me. That will all end on Tuesday and I’m expecting it to be quite busy; I’ll be taking the lead role back on a proposal I handed off while I was out, and I’ve got to be at track practice Tuesday as well. In other words, it will be right back into the old grind. But one more day off first.
