3 miles
river road, south/north
66 degrees
light rain
Thunderstorms possible, so no open swim. Boo. Oh well, I’ll swim tomorrow morning; maybe I’ll try to do an extra loop to make up for today? Since I couldn’t swim, I decided to run instead. Ran in the rain, and even though it was only 66 degrees, it felt warm. Even so, it was a good run. I can feel my ability to push through difficult moments strengthening.
10 Things
- for most of the time, no one else was out on the trail. only near the end did I see a walker, a biker, an adult and 2 kids running up the hill and out of the tunnel of trees
- midway down the hill a big tree had fallen and was blocking the trail
- there’s a thin branch that sticks out near the bench above the edge of the world. It has almost poked me in the eye several times this year. today, it made it in my eye but didn’t scratch anything. yikes — I need to try and remember that it is there
- looking through the fence railing, I could see the paved part of the winchell trail below — but only fleetingly, soon it was swallowed by green again
- the usual puddles to avoid in the neighborhood
- the sewer pipe in the ravine was gushing
- a walker with 2 dogs. the walker was in boots and a hooded raincoat
- near the end of the run, the rain stopped and there was almost sun
- flashes of orange in trees — once, orange spray paint on a tree trunk, marking it for taking down, more than once, rusted leaves
- several soaked branches stretched across the trail — mostly I avoided them, one time I couldn’t and my face got soaked
5
river
south
north
light
extra
today
since
trail
adult
bench
above
world
there
fence
could
below
green
avoid
spray
paint
trunk
a trunk, a fence, a bench: the world above the river
avoid green spray today
above fence below green
extra green today, low light