06.08.15

morning run:
Posey
Godzilla
Elewah
Xmul
MoMo
Mega
Steve McQueen
Murci
Cookie
(9)

No-man's land: ~8k. This was truly a group of Running Dogs: even the two chubsters (Steve and Mo) look like chunky little gazelles when in full flight and that's how they were for the whole run. We took a route designed to avoid salt workers but we did run into a couple groups. Way out north they had a dog with them and although Elewah put on her usual show of force (running in circles really fast and barking) she cut it out quickly and we disentangled with no issues (and a little laughter from the salt workers). No-man's land was excellent after yesterday's hard rain: no bugs yet, a little slick in places but in general we slogged the whole way through and everyone really had fun in the soggy mangroves. Whoever built that large wooden pier-like structure at the southern end of no-man's land is obviously not getting their money out of it: people have been coming out there to steal planks (it's good wood) and I haven't seen tire tracks out there in years. It makes a great backdrop for doggy playtime... I wished I had a camera a couple of times, the shenanigans were hilarious. Cookie was especially cute and funny; she and Murci could easily run twice that distance without feeling it at all... they probably almost did with all the crazy wipe-out circles they were running in the muck. I had planned on coming home the southern way but I heard a large salt loader running almost certainly squarely in our path; instead we cut across the charco at the three-way intersection where the short road from no-man's land lets out onto the palapa road. It was really shallow there and we had just slogged through worse. We took the middle road north to the jeep berm and came home via the alt. land bridge and the coco trail. The only misbehavior was at the very end, when Elewah and Posey turned their ears off to haul ass down to the land bridge from the shrimpery intersection. Elewah claimed to have heard something from her body-language but she just might be clever enough to lie, I don't know. Posey came back quickly but Elewah screwed around a lot and came back all sheepish and contrite: I scooped her up and carried her home and she fully understood why and didn't care, so there. She didn't smell any worse for wear so I'm fairly certain she didn't go hunting for contraband (there were a lot of guys down there). I also heard no barking, so whatever she did she did it quietly. Other than that everyone was great and had a blast. We won't have too many more like this before the bugs descend on us in earnest.
GRADE: B (Elewah)