Spring is here?

About a week ago you can read my post about how chilly it has been here. Well, since I've bought Wellies and an extra scarf the weather seems to have changed for the better (Murphy's law clearly working here...)

But really, the weather has been much nicer and in the mid to low 60's either partly or mostly cloudy. Yesterday I tackled the mean hills of Sheffield on a run. They say that Sheffield was built on seven hills, if I have not previously mentioned that fact. So it is really really hilly and steep. But I ventured out for a run yesterday as my body seemed deprived of me pushing it to exhaustion. (For those curious the iron supplements seem to be helping)

The weather was warm, but overcast and I ran downhill to one of the local parks. The park was great, a nice dirt path through the woods following along side a creek. The path was still a bit hillier than I am used to, but the shade was nice and I stayed pretty cool. But I could tell the second round of spring must be setting in because I must have swallowed like TEN BUGS!

These bugs are tiny green gnat-like buggies that were swarming all over the place. Ten bugs is sort of an exaggeration because I don't think I actually swallowed any. I did however have to stop twice to get the ones that flew right into my eye! Yuck. Now, I'm not a squeamish person, so they don't really bother me, except when I'm literally pulling a dead bug out of my eye. At the end of my run I had to brush off my running jersey to get off any of the straggling bugs left.

So, hopefully all those bugs mean that another frost is out of the picture and that the warmer weather is here to stay. I certainly hope so!