Friday at Maxwell? Guess I'll Run Twice.

I ran about 10k this morning with Adam from my class here at Maxwell:

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I guess that wasn't enough, because after I got done at the gym this afternoon I went for another run...just a short one this time, 5k:

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I noticed that it's so freakin' hot here even the squirrels can't put any weight on:

Anorexic squirrel.

Kind of hard to tell, but trust me, they're skinny.


A little ways after the squirrel I wound up on a different part of the golf course when I saw this:

Now, at first I was all like WTF?  A) This little bench shade is among a bunch of trees so the chances of it being struck by lightning and slim and B) why would anyone put two lightning rods on a bench?  What purpose could that serve?  Why is that worth it?

...then I remembered golfers get hit by lightning all the time.  As I understand it, it's not entirely their fault; apparently there's something about the open space that helps build up a potential between the ground and the clouds, but I can't find it right now.