The People You Meet.

One of the things about running early in the morning is that you get to know other people up and about early in the morning.

There is the schnauzer guy--he has two mini schnauzers that he walks. He covers a pretty wide area. Whenever I meet him in open areas--a cemetary or park--he has them running loose and they behave. We have a hyper mini schnauzer that bites men, kids, and the mail lady once. His schnauzers behave, tough.

Today I saw one of my regulars while running my Daws Hill Workout. I use a hill at the local university. I believe Ken (don't know if that is his actual name) works at the school. As I ran the trail along the hill that separates the university's upper & lower campuses, I met Ken. I often see Ken along this trail when I do it in the mornings, I assume he walks that way on his way to work.

What struck me today was that Ken had taken a stick and was slashing it back and forth as he walked--clearing the vegation along the sides of the trail. Nothing unusual, but something I didn't realize Ken did. Presumably, Ken does that on a regular basis and I didn't know it. I don't even know Ken's name but the fact that Ken clears "our" trail shocked me.