LIZARD’S MOUTH — Yesterday morning at 6 a.m., two local runners planning to train on leg 5 of April 12’s Are You Tough Enough race course were dismayed to discover that it was still dark.
“We’d gotten up at about 5 in order to meet there and practice the run,” runner Elizabeth Werhane said. “But it turns out Daylight Savings doesn’t save any daylight at all! It just uses it up in the evenings.”
Realizing that by the time they shuttled one car back to the start of the leg, it would STILL be too dark to see the road or approaching bears, the women drove back the way they came and ran along Cathedral Oaks instead.
Neither woman had brought a headlamp, and both said they were dismayed by the lost hour of sleep spent on an unnecessary drive.
“I hate learning things the ‘hard way,’” Werhane said.
