On Friday, Saturday and Sunday I put in the miles. Three of them! Total! It takes getting used to -- slowing down. It has it's advantages though -- one being it takes less time to get the "love-hate" relationship I have with running put into perspective and "Done!" Once completed, life is good again -- or at least better.
Friday's Mile - good run, 10:53 pace
Saturday's Run - cold, slow run on (hard) roads. felt stiff and ... s l o w.
Sunday's Run - good run. cured a bad mood. pace almost in the 10's
Yesterday - Sunday, was a tough day. I had the unfortunate experience of completing what felt like a "writing masterpiece" only to find it was rendered "LOCKED UP" on the internet in such a way as to prevent adding all the completed text and imagery. It's as if the cyber Gods are telling you flat out "Hey fella - You may have nailed your story with all its perfectly cropped, resized and chronologically ordered imagery, but you ain't going here anymore! I busted this and everything you did since 2021 and this story wont be allowed to have your 32 image summary. We're done here. I hope you saved your work, 'cause it ain't going here!"
Well, it was saved and, yes, I'm over it. Damn. Sometimes the God's of creativity stop artist's in their tracks and, well -- they end up literally going TO the track to run the madness out of themselves!
But, back to Saturday! Earlier, at 8:00 am I met in Concord for a walk with friends. This picture is one of the walking contingents of the Concord Runners. Sarah is to the left, followed by Susie, Noreen, Young and her boyfriend to the right. Young holds some cut Peonies from Sue and Dean's garden (They are off to the right and not visible here).
This picture below is a heavily blooming plant we incorrectly identified last Saturday. This Saturday's walk included a second visit to the Buttricks Gardens where (below) we saw what is actually something called Baptisia. Originally we thought it was False Indigo. Baptisia often is violet in color but this one is a creamy yellow. I remember this plant (it has distinctive "oval" shaped leaves) from my mother and fathers main garden in Weston, CT. That one was violet and quite big! Nice memory.
This single flower is a white peony in the Buttricks Garden. The edge of each petal has an interesting thin line of purple-violet. The actual diameter of this flower is roughly 6-7 inches. It's in full bloom here.
Finally we have an image which completely blends in quite nicely with all this "natural beauty" Ha! A picture of my own running legs! I add this only because I was about to (on Sunday afternoon) RUN continuously for the first time in a long time WITHOUT interspersed walking intervals. I was bored with PT and (frankly) a bit moody about just having "lost" those 3 days of written work on the earlier mentioned Facebook Album. Sunday's running link (above) captures the run at the track. Anyway, this was one of those vein images (no pun intended) one takes -- a selfie of sorts -- which marks a new lease on (in this case) running!
