Earliest Sunset

We still have another week until the “shortest day” but as of today we start having a later sunset!  Yesterday’s sunset was at its earliest (4:10 PM) which it had been since December 6^th, the daylight hours were shorter because of a later sunrise.  Since I run well before sunrise I don’t really care about what time sunrise is but running in the woods after work means paying attention to sunset times (it is also a well known fact that Zombie activity is much higher during nighttime hours and my opposition to Zombies is well documented).

So here’s to the later sunsets!  By December 31 the sunset will be 10 minutes later (4:20 PM) which at current running pace means an extra mile (or so) of running.

Sunrise/sunset calculator: http://aa.usno.navy.mil/data/docs/RS_OneYear.php

 

Zombies

I had a really vivid dream about zombies (a common theme for me to dream about) last night. 

 

It not only had zombies but also took place at the Rhody 5k and had one of the best Jim Johnson quotes of the year.  I was watching some zombies shuffle across the finish line and mentioned to JJ that they had run pretty decent times for zombies.  JJ noted "being a zombie is no excuse for a slow time" and I said "a zombie is never going to break an hour" to which Jim responded "not with that attitude".  I laughed in the dream which woke me up.

Zombie Dave says "brains!"