Monday, July 23, 2007

Run: 13 miles in 1:42:28 min. @ 9:00 a.m.

"Rivers are roads which move, and which carry us whither we desire to go."~Blaise Pascal
Weather: Mostly Cloudy, 55°F, 89% Humidity, Winds: W @ 3 mph; feels like 55°F.

Pace: 7:53 min./per mile avg.

This morning started as a few of my early days did the previous week, with about twenty-minutes of very basic yoga poses care of the Stress Relief Yoga for Beginners with Suzanne Deason VHS tape. This was in expectation of heading out for a long slow-ish distanced (LSD) run later in the morning…

Today I challenged myself to finish something I had attempted (and failed to complete earlier this summer, and since that mis-step, had been slowly working towards achieving. Yesterday, Anne and I bicycled roughly the second half of the longer portion of the Genesee River Trailway north of Rochester. I had attempted this run from our Maplewood YMCA to Lake Ontario earlier in the summer nad had found myself defeated by sun, heat, and misdirection. Today I rectified that prior miscue...

I began by entering the Genesee River Trailway just past the rose garden of the historic Frederick Law Olmsted park at Maplewood Park, across from the aforementioned YMCA. From there I ran North… as I was running and observing my surroundings I noted the markers (Much like yesterday’s bike ride) and the many birds, squirrels, cars and people that inhabited these areas of our city.

Breathe in, breathe out... YOU AND I ARE ALIVE!

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