5 miles
bottom franklin hill and back
68 degrees
humidity: 87%
It felt warm and humid today. Difficult. I managed to stick to 9/1 for the first 30 minutes, then I was less consistent as my heart rate stayed elevated. Still, I had some small victories: 1. I ran up most of the franklin hill — more than I thought I would/could; 2. I made it through 3 9/1 circuits when I thought I could only do 2; 3. I ran up a hill and kept running until the end of edmund instead of giving up early.
10 Things
- a runner’s bright orange shorts
- another runner’s sturdy and strong form running up the hill
- the water in the flats: rough, textured, corrugated
- 3 roller skiers climbing a hill — the first faster, ahead of the 2 others who were good-naturedly complaining about how fast he was
- 5 or 6 runners — part of a team — shirtless and fast
- strange construction noises coming from above me on the I-94 bridge
- Mr. Morning!
- no sign of the tree that fell in the tunnel of trees on Thursday evening
- evidence of last night’s rain: a few puddles, wet branches
- a very short stretch of deep, muddy tire tracks through the grass between the road and the path
5
humid
today
stick
first
heart
small
would
could
until
early
ahead
still
night
muddy
track
grass
above
noise
Humid today; I was sticky. My heart at first felt small, tight.
If I could, I would not have waited until it was light. I would have left when it was still early, ahead of the sun.
Last night, rain. Now a track of muddy grass. Climbing up, above the gorge, my heart grows, opens, makes a joyful noise.
a thought: not sure how this 5 experiment is working so far. Not that inspiring yet. I’ll give it a few more days.