In the Pacific Northwest during winter, 5.15 a.m. might be the middle of night. It is not only dark, but also cold. If you asked me a year ago if I could run early on a winter morning, I would laugh.        ，last fall I connected with a friend. She'd been running with a partner in the morning and had     forty pounds that year .I knew I could also have the same kind of weight loss. Since her running partner wasn't running, I asked if I could      her.
The first two months were     ,because we ran twice a week at 5.15 a.m. My body wasn't used to the early hours and every run was difficult. Then it snowed and we took two months     . When the roads were clear, we soon were running together five days a week. As I'd changed the route of running, I discovered little   that made it even more worthy（值得的）than a little weight loss. As we couldn't see other runners' faces, we said "good morning" to them    shining a flashlight（手电筒）．Running in the dark made us part of a club. When the sky was clear, I noticed lots of stars. It    me of summertime camping and I looked forward to running in warmer weather.
Though I haven't taken off forty pounds yet, it's amazing how much more    I have and  how much stronger I feel. Because of the morning run, the rest of the day is more productive（有成效的）than before,1 wouldn't say I've    a morning person, but l would say morning run is now my thing.

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