Spring seems to have a dull start

Boy is it cold in New Jersey. I was hoping for warmer weather to start spring. Thought it would encourage me to get outside running and biking more. Sunday I had a 15K run planned in NYC Central Park. I woke up to 24 degrees, yikes! Long commute into the city, but met up with some friends (Matt, Genine, Steve, and David) to commute into the city. Makes the entire race more fun. I'm really about the social part anyway. I'm not competitive at it and that is only because I'm not great at it. was a somewhat cold run, but was better by 10:30 when the race started. We had Genine as the photographer and her friend Ruth took video. Was so awesome to have them come and do that. Ruth then put together a cool video of it as well, goto http://mooseman08.blogspot.com/ to see the video, second post on 3/22. Pics are also there on the right.
Monday, David and I took the day to hike and went to the Appalachian Trail of hwy 80. Was a great hike and more difficult than I expected. Lots of rocks and water crossings. If the water was any higher, we would have gotten pretty wet and in the mid 30's, that is cold. Now, most importantly, I have no idea how any of old timers back in the day used that trail for anything but hiking. It is certainly not a path for wagons or even horses for that matter. It is soooo rocky, horses wouldn't attempt most of the paths. My dogs were in heaven. There weren't many people out hiking on a Monday, so I let them off leash and they ran up and back the entire time. They probably tripled our distance of around 7 miles. On the way home, the 2 of them curled up together in the back of the blazer and slept hard the entire way home. I don't blame them, they were in and out of the water and running around like crazy. It got so cold toward the end, that when I tried to towel off the dirt and water from their underside, that it froze. They had a million little icicles hanging off them and I couldn't towel it off. The cold probably added to their sleepiness once the car warmed up. Was a good weekend of runs and hikes either way. Back to work today, ugh. I hear there is flooding in Grand Forks and I hope no Lusty's have flooding. Doesn't sound good, river is up 40 feet according to my mother.
Catch you all another day.