October 11th: Laundry and Clark Kerr Fire Trails

Today was quite nice and brought new experiences.

Earlier in the day, I did my laundry. Unfortunately, this took a really long time: There were only 3 working laundry machines in my building! It was really annoying, and I could really only use one laundry machine at a time to wash my laundry (which I already had a lot of) as well as my sheets.

While I was doing my laundry, I got a very nice gift from someone special to me.

After, when I was finally done with all of my laundry, I decided to go on a run, because the RSF closed at 6, but I still wanted to do some exercise today. I got on the Clark Kerr Fire Trails and stared running. It had been quite a while since I had last run, and a lot of it was uphill, so it was a bit difficult. Still, I managed to run up to the top! It was really satisfying and the views were definitely worth it.

Once I was at the top, I was debating whether I wanted to take the short route back to Clark Kerr for dinner or if I wanted to keep running. At this time, the sun had practically already set, but I still had a lot of time disregarding the sunlight.

So, I made the choice to keep on running the long path. It would've been a really nice path in the daytime. However, when I was maybe a quarter of the way through the longer path, it was dead dark. Fortunately, I had someone special with me on the phone to keep my company. Even then, my connection cut out for a good couple minutes, which was a bit scary. All I could see was the dirt path ahead of me with the crickets chirping by me, and the occasional moving bush that would scare the crap out of me.

Fortunately, I managed to get back on a road. Unfortunately, it was a road for cars, so I had to play crossy road in real life. There was also a loose dog that I had to outrun. By this point, I had gotten back to the swing of running, which was nice. After running for a really long time, I had made it to Clark Kerr for dinner.

Dinner wasn't even that good today. In the end, I ran 4 miles, in not so good pace, but I blame that it was dark. I would've taken pictures when I was in the thick of the forest, but I really wanted to get out of there.

Thanks for reading,
Issac