To commemorate our nation’s independence, I ran six miles in ninety-degree weather. Normally, I like to run in the morning or the evening when the sun isn’t so high up in the sky. However, today, being a holiday, resulted in my lazy grad student butt sleeping in past prime morning run hours. Also, again since today is a holiday, I plan on spending my evening in Pullman watching purty fireworks, again during prime evening run hours. Conundrum. So I sucked it up and ran in the afternoon. It was super hot, but a really good run. I tried out a new 6-mile route, this one going back behind the Kibbie Dome on this awesome hill and also incorporating part of my sheep run route. I love those sheep! There’s like four or five little mini-herds of them, each with their little fenced-in area with a feeding trough, shelter, and whatnot. Almost every time I run past them, the last little mini-herd is always eating! I think they’re my favorite.