the tortoise
since we had a busy weekend planned, my constitutionals got moved to the morning. while it takes me a few miles to warm up, it’s great to have that task crossed off the list for the day. i ran on the glacial drumlin trail on both saturday and sunday. on sunday morning, as i was headed west and spotted a big tortoise that was camping out along the side of the trail. seems like every year around this time i see these guys along the trail. on my way back home, i saw it again but this time it was walking along the paved trail versus hanging out off to the side.
monday evening i opted to run in town and improvised a few variations to a loop i’ve run to extend it a bit. sometimes it gets a bit boring doing the same route over and over, so mixing it up a bit helps. to throw a bit of variance into my tuesday evening run, i loaded a single album (Operation: Mindcrime) on my ipod and turned off the shuffle option. the album is a “concept” album that essentially tells a story in slightly under an hour. i used to listen to it alot (back in the day) but haven’t listened to it beginning-to-end in awhile. even twenty (plus) years later it still sounds good.
MTD – 162 miles (22 runs in 25 days)
YTD – 702 miles
Odometer – 30,210 miles