Speaking of cold, it's finally turning into winter here. 24 degrees when I went out for my wog this morning. I was laughing because I was wearing two pairs of pants, two long-sleeved shirts, a sweatshirt, mittens, and a hat. DH was out running wearing one thin pair of long pants, one long-sleeved shirt, gloves, and a balaclava. Up until it dropped into the 20s he was wearing shorts! Still too warm for Carter to need his coat, but he wore his reflective vest and his one boot, as usual.
I think this outfit will keep me warm enough down to about 20 degrees. After that I may need to consider another layer. But then again, I'm a cold wuss.
Now I have to decide what workout clothes to pack for our trip to LA. Obviously I don't need enough clothes to handle 20 degrees, but I'm not sure how cold it is going to be before sunrise, or even if I'll be awake that early while we're there.
Okay, I have to rant about invisible fences. I have issues with them in general (mostly two things: 1. a dog can easily jump them, and 2. if a dog comes running toward you, you don't know where he's going to stop). But the one thing that bugs me the most is when people set up their invisible fence so that the boundary is on the far side of the sidewalk. Setting it up so your dog can walk unattended on the sidewalk is really a bad idea.
This morning while I was running with Carter, first on our left was a woman walking her dog back to her house. The dog was freaking out and tugging toward Carter. The end of his leash was only a couple feet away from where I was holding Carter. I had hoped the woman would back up a few feet but she just stayed put and Carter and I ran past with me yelling at him to leave it the whole time (of course, any time a dog tugs toward Carter, he gets all huffy and has to act tough). Then 5 feet later this yellow lab on a too-large invisible fence comes trotting over. Carter, on his leash, is still freaked out from the previous dog and gets all huffy about this new dog, and I realize the dog is not going to stop before reaching the sidewalk.
Luckily the dog was more well-mannered, came onto the sidewalk behind us rather than coming straight for Carter, and just followed us to the edge of his property without any aggressive body language or barking or anything. I've seen this dog out on the sidewalk multiple times though and it really bothers me that the owners set up their fence like that. The first time I was running on my own (this was over a year ago) and had a terrified moment when I saw the dog step onto the sidewalk where I thought he was going to chase me.