3.5 miles
marshall loop (cleveland)
66 degrees
Continued the Saturday tradition of running the Marshall loop with Scott. This morning we ran up the hill between the river road and cretin without stopping. We talked about hospice and last stages of life and Project Runway and band board meetings. Hospice is amazing, by the way. Passed other runners and walkers, tried unsuccessfully to avoid acorns and mud from yesterday’s storm. We weren’t home when it hit, but according to FWA (and many other people on facebook) we got hail the size of quarters. No major damage, but tons of leaves strewn all over the deck, the sidewalk, the road.
10 Things
- so many acorns on the sidewalk and the trail! some crushed, some whole — dangerous. Already I’ve rolled a few times on them
- a weird whiny bird near shadow falls. Scott wondered if it was a grouse. It might be. I looked it up and listened and the Ontario, 1963 call sounds similar to what we heard today
- bright sun, broad daylight, yet the street lamps on the trail are on and so is the lamp on the bridge steps that neither of us have ever noticed before
- avoiding sprinklers on Summit
- the warning beep from the crosswalk sign in sync with the beat of a song coming out of a car’s radio
- on marshall between cretin and cleveland: more shade than sun
- the unpleasant whiff of the sewer as we passed near shadow falls
- a shell with a single rower in it — watching the oars gently enter the water and leave a trail
- getting dripped on once when the wind shook the tree we were running under
- crossing the bridge, looking down at the river, seeing a part of the old meeker locks and dam poking through the water