4 miles
marshall loop
61 degrees
humidity: 83%
What a storm early this morning! So much wind and flashes of light around 2:30 am. Running this morning, I expected to see big branches down everywhere. Not too many (any?) on the minneapolis side, but on the st. paul side they had to shut down the right lane and the sidewalk so a crew could clear all the debris. I saw that the road was closed right at the spot where I turn, so I assumed I would be able to get through. Nope. Had to turn around and run past a long line of cars that had probably watched me running towards the closed sidewalk and wondered why I kept going. Oh well. Turning around added a small bit of distance to my run, which was a bonus.
10 Things I Noticed
- The squeak of my shoes running over wet leaves and pulverized acorns
- Little branches, some still covered in green leaves, some bare, littered all over the trail
- From my view above on the bridge: a streak of muck/silt? in the river near the st. paul shore
- No rowers or roller skiers
- A radio playing near the ravine by Shadow Falls. I wondered if the song was coming from down in the ravine or on a bike across the ravine
- The more than trickling, not quite gushing, of falls at shadow falls
- some fall color: a few yellow trees, a slash of red
- someone stopping at the memorial just above the lake street bridge, reading the signs or taking pictures or both
- a backpacked kid biking with his dad, heading to school
- A shirtless runner speeding past me, almost wheezing
word of the day: majusculation
The act or practice of beginning a word with a capital letter when it is not the beginning of a sentence.
Here’s a poem for the theme of approximate:
[I remember partially]/ Jane Huffman
I remember partially
My searching
Party going out in search
Of my own
Life my lantern light
Like water sloshing
Down the front
Of me and calling
My own name
Into the forest dusk
A partial sound
A painful braying
Syllable
That grounded
Like a current
In the dirt a yard
In front of me
But I resorted to it
Like a witness does
To memory
I was planning to swim this afternoon, but the buoys are gone. Lake swimming is officially over. Sad, but it’s time to focus on fall and winter running!