Oh Virginia, you and your batshit crazy weather

We just went from a snow storm, to black ice, to 70° fricking degrees at 4 AM in what? A week?

Less than a week ago it was balaklava and double-layers. This morning? Shorts, a single short-sleeve t-shirt, and I was seriously considering putting an ice pack in my hydration pack.

And tomorrow morning it'll be 30° degrees colder than this morning. Because fuck me, that's why.

Yet another failed attempt at vehicular manslaughter

Yup, once again somebody tried to murder me while on my morning run.

Let's set the stage:

1. It's Spring Break, so traffic on Northshore Drive is really light.
2. I was wearing a headlight and a green rear-facing flasher.
3. I was running VERY SLOW, today was my recovery run.

My path is the yellow arrows. At the points marked 1, 2, 3 and 4 I was looking over my shoulder. No traffic.

I crossed the first half of temporary road slowly, then stopped to look to my right...

And that's when the asshole (red arrows) came barrelling as if it was a race track.

What annoys me is that I know that she was speeding, and she didn't give a flying fuck about running over me. I am almost at my most paranoid whenever crossing streets during commute hours, and worse when it is a busy intersection. And I clearly remember looking over my shoulder as I was approaching the corner. That bitch was going so fast that she covered that arc from 1 through 5 in less than two seconds.

And the only reason I am alive is that I stopped at point 5 to look to the right one more time.

Found another Little Free Library

Found charter 47783 hidden somewhere in the northern edges of Reston, Virginia. I was doing a "heat map expansion" run and I only noticed it because I turned into a tiny cul-de-sac, otherwise it would had been hidden by a tree.

A canceled run timeline

4:50 AM Alarm rings.
4:51 AM The procrastinoids start nipping at my toes.
4:55 AM "ugh, I didn't take the day off yesterday, maybe I should do it today..."
5:00 AM (waiting for coffee to brew) "I should just play Borderlands until my 9 AM shift starts."
5:14 AM (wind howling outside, as loud as a frigging hurricane) HOLY SHIT WHAT'S THAT RACKET ... and yeah, I said that aloud but didn't wake up wife, kid or cats.
5: 15 AM Fairfax County schools system sends its "we are shutting down for weather" message.
5:16 AM Feels Good, Inc.