Shorts in January FTW

Hello chafing my old friend....
You've come to destroy my thighs again....
(to be song to the tune of Simon and Garfunkel's The Sounds of Silence).

I think I may have figured out a very important component to inner thigh chafage: I only chafe when I'm not pouring sweat.  Ergo, my sweat is equal to, if not greater than Body Glide in awesomeness, and I should bottle it up and market it.  Screw Scarves for PRs, we're talking JerBear Shares Her Sparkly Sweat (for a nominal fee, obvs).
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I finally got out for my first run of 2012 yesterday.  Just savoring the big ol' goose egg in my running log as long as possible I guess.  However, when the temp was still in the 40's at 8pm, I had no choice but to head out for some miles.  My legs were still pretty tight from my long run since I had failed to do a shake out run the day after... or any run at all until Wednesday, and my left calve was sir cranky pants.  The last mile and a half my legs finally felt good.

But even better, I got to run in shorts!  In January!  At night time!  It was kind of amazing.

And tonight I got some company on the first couple of my run when Kyle wanted to join me.  Yippee!  Even better news was that he thought it was a lot easier than last week's run.  I think I'm going to keep a training log of Kyle's runs and surprise him with something cool when he gets to 100 miles.  I remember how big of a deal it was when I hit 100 miles the first time I started tracking my mileage.  And I still have the Fossil watch I bought myself as a reward.  And the Brett Favre Jersey for the 200th mile.  Ha.

I had planned to just do some easy miles, but then realized I wouldn't have a hard run this week outside of my long run.  Since the route is fairly hilly, I decided I would run the hills hard and recover on the downhills and straightaways.  It was actually pretty fun and was enough variety that it kept my mind entertained.  And I swear to you, some of those hills were like 4-5 blocks long.  That's a big hill for this "I heart running on the prairie" girl.  I managed to average a 9:05 on the solo portion of my run.

Edited to add:  After I hit publish I realized this was my 500th post.  I think I had planned to do something special for it, for you all, but obviously I didn't.  Remind me in a month, maybe I'll do a random something since I suck.