22.11.10

morning run:
Bette
Gracie
Frijolita
Osita
Rita
Blue
Elewah
Monkey
(8)

As dysfunctional and screwed up as the last run was, that's how lovely and fine this one was. It ended up being the longest run I've ever done, in any epoch of my life: 14.1km according to Google Earth. This group just wanted to run. For the first time I felt like Elewah was running with us and not just ahead of us. She also now drinks out of the bottle right with Bette instead of always deferring to her, and Monkey has taken to getting on her hind legs and pushing everyone out of her way with her front paws to get a drink (aptly named, that one). We went to Playa Maya, but via the long and winding road from the west; we picked it up going "backwards" from the northern charcos to the western intersection, then cutting east into the monte to get to the inland road to Xixim. We turned towards the beach at the main road just east of Playa Maya, came south down the beach to the Au Soleil Couchant outlet and then re-entered the monte and came home the way we went out. About 500m to the south of Playa Maya, just north of two ruined buildings on the beach we found the body of a dead sea turtle, a little over 1 meter in length. It probably weighed several hundred pounds, and didn't look like it had died all that long ago, or at least it hadn't been lying on the beach for that long. I suppose it must happen from natural causes once in a while; I'll inform someone at the turtle place later today. Other than that nothing odd or untoward happened; there was nobody out there, as we left early. Elewah came in at the same time as everyone else with no prompting or interference on my part, which made me happy.
GRADE: A