3.1 miles
2 trails
73 degrees
And the week of heat begins. A few days ago, the high was expected to be 103 on Wednesday. Now just 98. Still too warm. I could feel the heat in my run this morning. Harder to breathe. Even so, running feels better. My knees and hips don’t hurt. Hooray!
Listened to kids and cars and birds for most of the run. Turned on “The Wiz” for the last mile.
10 Things
- the energetic din of kids getting dropped off for camp at Dowling Elementary
- “Uptown Funk” playing on the playground at Minnehaha Academy — I could hear “too hot” through the trees as I ran past. I wondered if it was the edited version or if some kid might go home tonight singing “hot damn”
- passing a woman walk-running with her dog on the short hill down to the south entrance of the winchell trail
- as I write this entry on my deck, I can hear one of the kids next door whining or whimpering non-stop inside of their house. I am almost positive it’s a kid, but could it be a dog? wow
- the water was a burning white
- haze hovers above the water’s surface — it looks so hot!
- calling out excuse me and thank you! as I passed 3 walkers spread across the path
- flying fast down the hill into the tunnel of trees, everything a blur
- up on edmund, farther from the river, hearing the faint voices of rowers
- no roller skiers or overheard conversations or regulars