04.05.11

morning run:
Ginger
Godzilla
Posey
Gowron
Ziggy
Lily
Molly
Floyd
(8)

The now-usual terreno federal serpentine to the Au Soleil Couchant road, beach, tortuga sign and home in the monte: ~8k. We've just been leaving too late to go any farther, it gets hot and humid so early. Still, this is a fun run and everyone had a good time smelling all the places where it has been burned recently on the route. The gulf is a bit churned up today, but nobody cared and they all swam like idiots on the way home; Floyd especially seems to like swimming when the sea is a bit rough.
GRADE: A

beach run/swim:
Alice
Lucy
George
Daisy
Mo
Una
Twiggy
Xmul
(8)

Xmul was a good girl this time... I would like to think that disciplining her harshly on the last outing helped, but I'm probably fooling myself. George was in his glory, with Daisy adoring/harassing him the whole way up the beach. There is a momma dog hanging out with a couple of pups up the beach in the general area of the HoJo. The mom barked at us a little from a distance, but the pups took off and ran away when they saw us; there appeared to be two, probably half the age of the black pups. Nobody took offense or even ventured up to see them, for which I was both grateful and a tiny bit proud. Xmul is definitely more independent than the three black pups, but she stuck with me much more this time. Daisy, Mo, Una and Twigs are generally in a little cloud around me the whole way. Daisy swam more than she ever has, even though the sea was rough. Roni and Zasu came out to meet us on the beach as we were getting close to home, and everyone was comically happy to see them in the distance. A good time was had by all.
GRADE: A