march 29/RUN

3.6 miles
bottom of locks and dam
60 degrees

Not the easiest run: stomach cramps from gas, perhaps the result of my increased fiber and iron. Miles 1 and 2 were mostly okay, but mile 3 was difficult and included several walk breaks. Other than that, a beautiful afternoon for a run. I wore shorts and a short sleeved shirt. Spring! It will get cold again this week, and it might even snow1 a little, but the warm weather will return and melt everything quickly. Hooray!

10 Things

  1. voices rising up from deep in the gorge
  2. empty benches — even in this beautiful weather?
  3. a runner behind me — the voice from their running app calling out, you have completed 13 kilometers. I almost turned around and called out, nice word!
  4. several bikers passing by FAST!
  5. loud noise — music, voices — near the ford bridge. was it nearby or were the noises travel far on the wind?
  6. the soft shadows of branches, the rounded shadow of the streetlamp light
  7. bikers biking down the wabun hill then turning to go down the locks and dam hill — a minute later, they slowly climbed both hills — it looked like they might not have known where they were going and made a mistake as opposed to using the hills for training
  8. fee bee fee bee
  9. every bit of the snow, even the little mounds that were piled in the corners has melted
  10. running a short stretch of the winchell trail, covered in leaves and shadows

holes

Today I’m redoing Holes 1. Orginally, each of the holes encasing the words of the poem were in the shape of my blind spot. I’ve decided to make them circles instead, with one big blind spot in the center. I briefly thought about making each of them the shape of the inner hole of my blind spot — which is currently a blind doughnut, with a small, still functioning center — but that doesn’t seem to work visually. Plus, when I stare at the wall for a moment I might see the blind spot in a form that I can trace, but my experience of the blind spot isn’t that straightforward. Sometimes I see the hint of dark loops encircling the words. Sometimes everything is just fuzzy or unfocused. I’m wondering if I can represent that by making the shaded in circles look softer and less defined, and messy, rough. Or maybe I should try a series of dark rings on some of them?

  1. When I wrote this sentence, in the mid-afternoon, there was a chance of 1/2 inch of snow. Now, finishing this entry the next morning, the forecast (on Apple weather) is predicting 1-2 inches on Wednesday, 5-6 on thursday and 2-4 on sunday, ↩︎