3.3 miles
minnehaha falls and back
64 degrees
Another hot and hard run with heavy legs. Not enough water or iron or rest? My body adjusting to warmer, heavier air?
Ran with Scott to the falls. Windy, green. We talked about the runner’s high and I mentioned my log post from may 24, 2017 that included an early poem about the runner’s high. I’d like to edit it, or at least revisit the ideas in it. This revisiting will include trying to experience more runner’s highs. I also mentioned Jaime Quatro’s article, Running as Prayer, and the deepest level of the runner’s high. Scott said he preferred the word meditation to prayer: less Christian baggage. That conversation lasted about 15 minutes, I think. I can’t remember what else we talked about — oh, the wind, the value of having designated spots for returning your ride share bikes, side stitches.
10 Things
- slick path or slippery shoes or both — mud, worn-down tread
- wind in our face, running south. Scott suggested that the wind was like a trainer holding a belt around your waist as you ran, which is something we noticed happening before the twins game last week with a player and his trainer and a belt
- flashes of pale blue, almost white, river through the thick trees
- plenty of puddles
- kids yelling on the playground
- spray coming off the rushing falls — water falling down and from the sides of the limestone
- a long queue for paying for parking in the minnehaha lot
- the surreys are back — bunched together near the falls overlook
- a cooling breeze heading north again
- minneapolis parks mowed a wide strip of grass near the trail by the ford bridge but left the meadow — good news for the bull frogs! Today I couldn’t hear them because of the wind and the traffic but I bet they’re there
Yesterday I posted part of a poem from Lucie Brock-Broido. Here’s part of another beautiful one:
from Periodic Table for Ethereal Elements/ Lucie Brock-Broido
A girl ago, a girlhood gone like a phial of ether
Thrown on fire-just
A little jump of flame, like grief, or,
Like a penicillin that has lost its will for killing
Off, it then is gone.
And, here’s a recording of her reading the whole poem.