• Unusual and usual •
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Sailing into Glennallen, Alaska, 06’28’S, I did my usual It’s-time-for-you-to-get-out-of-this-car run. The team defenestrated me 13 miles from our destination and I did my usual Saturday long run, just point-to-point in AK.
It was unusual for a few reasons, though. One is that it’s less common for me to do that run in AK than I thought. Over the eight years I’ve been going there, I’ve done it 4 times. And among those times, only once was the effort 13 miles instead of 8. I really though I’d run more, but the logs say otherwise. So, the 13-mile effort is hardly that usual.
As far as ITFYTGOOTC efforts, I regularly do those when driving to various get-away spots with Wife. We pretend to argue. She pretends to toss me out of the car. I hoof it the rest of the way. Usual.
I finish in the daylight, despite it being 9:30 p.m. It’s Alaska! Night it falls in these-here parts around 11:45. Day it dawns at around 4:15 a.m., too, which means I could have done early morning runs in broad daylight: I never did. Daylight training runs during otherwise conventional nighttimes in the lower 48: unusual.
Sure the run; but the view! And at 9:30 p.m.!
Finally, you never experience views like this around Philadelphia. Unusual.
Ah, running in Alaska. Thankfully not in the winter.
-CtCloser (Calvinthe), “Negative split or positive splat” #dothedue
FINE PRINT ¶Text and photos (unless otherwise stated): Calvin Wang (Wäng), CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. ¶Cross-posted: (1) Facebook JRC Growlers Group Run (2024’07’10’W Run Message), (2) GGR email list, (3) Cerebruns by CtCloser. ¶This website posting: Cerebrun with minor edits, added caption, and image.
Updated: 2024’07’15’M (Editing)
iCandybyWangC 
Nice read. 7