3.1 miles
duluth lake front
55 degrees
Took a quick drip to Duluth with Scott and FWA. Lots of walking and talking and being by the lake. Great weather! Peak color. Wore shorts and a sweatshirt on our morning run. Ran north (I think?) by the lake, past Leif Erickson park. Lots of short, steep hills. Just before the turn around, I realized that we had had the wind at our backs. Uh-oh. The wind was in our face for the second half. which didn’t really matter because we were running mostly downhill. I said to Scott, can you imagine if the wind had been in our faces as we ran uphill?
The water was almost smooth with no waves. I could hear the rocks gently shivering when the water washed over them. Speaking of shivering, while we were shopping in a kitchen store, FWA and I both overheard an older woman exclaim, wow, it’s shivery in here. It was a little chilly, but shivery?
10 Things
- a tiny bird so small I thought it was a dragonfly — a hummingbird?
- cooing pigeons near the wall
- sparkling water — circles of light on the lake’s surface
- no clouds
- no big boats
- entires trees with orange leaves, a few bushes with slashes of red
- a machine across the way making a noise that reminded me of the sound the black monster in Lost made when it was hovering or hunting
- so many inviting benches on top of the hill, high above the water
- the constant buzz of the hospital helicopter, landing on the roof, then taking off again
- a little boy and his older sister on the path — come on, Whitley, it’s time to start our grand adventure!
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