This morning I ran the Mastodon Challenge 15K. My friend Loretta and her boyfriend were running and convinced me to run it as a training run. Which was good, because I hadn’t run any miles this week, at all. It was raining on my drive over to Cohoes and it rained until the race started at 9am. My jacket came off at .3 miles into the race, ha. The sun came out and it was really warm. Since I had zero goals for this race, I just wanted to take my time and enjoy the scenery. A portion of the race is run on the Colonie bike path, which I…