Street Lights

Patty and I ran last night from Pavillions to Newhall Ranch Road on the bike path and down towards the train bridge on Magic Mtn. Parkway. We ended up with just over 4 miles at a 9.1 pace. It really didn't feel like we were moving that fast, but I guess we were trying to beat the dark. We would have been done earlier, but we spent a good amount of time pondering where to go once we hit Newhall Ranch Road. We stopped several times trying to decide whether it was better trying to run illegally cross the street (not a good idea at rush hour), or run another 100 yards down the street and cross at the light. I'm not sure what it is about stop lights, but I try to avoid them. I think it's the fact that you have to wait for the light to change and then run across the street as people in cars wait while watching you run across. In the end, we ran to the light and crossed. Had we just done that in the first place, we probably would have been done before it became dark!