17.10.11

morning jaunt:
Ginger
Gowron
Maggie
Ziggy
Molly
Floyd
(6)

Out the dirty road, over the middle land bridge, the cut-over to the parallel road back to the tortuga crossing and home south via the dirty road again (basically a figure eight): ~4k. We really ran it except for Maggie, who kept lagging and having to rest. Still everyone was good.
GRADE: A

morning jaunt #2 (abortive):
Henry
Linda
(2)

My plan was a little jog directly around the cow pasture. Instead we got halfway there, to the midpoint of the road that runs along the northern end of the pasture, when I noticed that Linda was lagging back about 20m and looking to bolt the opposite way. Sure enough, that's what she did. Until that point she had been no farther than a meter from my heel. For some reason she just decided that was far enough from home and would not stop. I was 90% certain she would come straight home and 10% worried that she would try to run to Kikis', so naturally the 10% won and I sprinted for 700m trying to catch her (the last 100m more on principle than anything else). Henry was a trooper as always. I guess the whole thing was roughly 1.6km, half at a mild jog and half at a crazy gallop.
GRADE: C (we made it home in one piece at least)