5 miles
Veterans bridge and back
48 degrees
This past week, it was warm. So warm that when we (me, Scott, FWA, RJP, and my sister) went out for dinner Friday night, the restaurant had all of the garage doors open. Mid-70s in late October. Yesterday afternoon, the wind picked up, rain moved in, and so did cooler air. 48 and running tights this morning. We are past peak fall now. More open views, more yellow leaves.
My IT band seems to be mostly okay, but some muscle on the inside of my hamstring just below my glute is sore. It aches at night. Looked it up: semimembranosus. Way back in 2017, I wrote a poem about hamstring muscles that included a line about how another one of the hamstring muscles, biceps femoris, should be pronounced feMoris and not FEMoris because feMoris sounded more like a spell from Harry Potter. I’ll have to dig it up. (see below)
My semimembranosus (if that is what is sore) didn’t hurt while I was running, but my right glute started to around mile 4. Other than that, it was a good run. I’ve shifted to running 4 min/ walking 1. I like how easy it is to keep track.
10 Things
- the light shifted several times — sun, then overcast, then sun again
- the surface of the water viewed through the trees: glowing white
- the leaves on the trees on the bluff are thinning, offering a better view
- dead, yellowed leaves on the ground, covering the dirt trail
- kind pedestrians: on at least two occasions, walkers moved to single file to let me pass easily — thank you! / you’re welcome!
- a greeting from a woman walker in subdued orange puffer vest: morning
- a crowd admiring the falls at the main overlook
- the bells of the light rail ringing out a warning as they exited the 50th street station
- the bridge over to the veterans home is completely blocked
- already at 10am the Horace Cleveland Overlook parking lot was full
Before the run, I refreshed my memory of “Writing a Poem” by Shirley Geok lim Lin. The air is buzzing./ Someone is operating a giant machine… In the last mile of my run, I heard the buzz of a leaf blower. Boo — death to leaf blowers!
more fun with medical terms
I found my poem about the hamstring muscles (which I refer to as hamstrings in the poem): More Fun with Medical Terms. Here’s the part of it about bicep femoris:
semitendinosus, semimembranosus, biceps femoris
the first two terms
aren’t that hard to figure out how to pronounce
so I’ll focus on the third.
I’d like to say that the femoris in biceps femoris is pronounced: fee moor iss
like some sort of Harry Potter spell.
wave your wand: BICEPS FEEMOORISSSS!
or better yet: BICEPS FEENORMISS! (for really big biceps)
I’d like to say that
but I can’t
because it’s pronounced: femme a ris
semitendinosus, semimembranosus, biceps femoris
wait, you might ask
and I did
and then looked it up,
we have biceps in our hamstrings?
in fact
biceps is a general term for a skeletal muscle with two “heads,”
or points of origin.
when we, and by we I mean me
and anyone else who isn’t a doctor or a medical student or really into anatomy for whatever reason,
think of biceps, we’re thinking of
biceps brachii
pronounced: brackey or, my preference, bracky eye.
looking it up online,
I discovered that biceps bracky eye can actually have more heads!
up to seven “have been reported”!
is that true?
and what causes these extra heads?
do each of these heads have bracky eyes
that stare at you when you’re wearing a sleeveless shirt?
I like it — although I’m not sure how I determined my line breaks, and I think it’s too long. Could I edit/condense it? Possibly. I like the idea of turning these fun with medical term/spells into a chapbook. Fun! Could I put one together soon enough to submit to something in the next month?