So. Sometimes when I run I take my iPod. Not always, because I like to keep pace without any help. But music adds another dimension to all the things that I wrote about in the last post.
Today I put it on shuffle (which I hardly ever do). Here's the playlist it built for my 4 mile run today.
Juanes "Un dia normal"
Dolly Parton "Wildflowers" from the Trio album (I listened to it twice)
Brad Paisley "The Cigar Song" (which is hilarious)
Beatles "I'm Lookin Through You"
Nickel Creek "This Side" (I liked their first album the best, but this is my favorite from the second album)
Linda Ronstadt "The Pain of Lovin You" (hugely ironic/fitting for this moment)
Nora Jones "Sunrise" (LOVE her voice...try to play her piano, fail miserably)
Vince Guaraldi "Linus and Lucy" (can't even comment on that one)
Ismael Serrano "Caperucita" (Thanks to AL for that one...still cry EVERY TIME I hear it)
Avril Lavigne "Anything But Ordinary" (odd that I sympathize with a teeny bopper pop star, no? Mostly for nostalgia and Brina's sake, but still something to it. :-) )
Anyway. It was a good list, and a really good run. And I'll save you the trouble of adding up the length of each song to see how long it took me to run the 4 miles (because I know you all have the time and interest to do so :-) and say that I ran it in a little less than 35 minutes. WAHOO!
Friday, July 30, 2010
Wednesday, July 28, 2010
6 miles
Well, actually, it was more like 5.8. Not near as impressive as 2374. But the 5.8 I RAN!
I'm training for a half marathon. My mother-in-law (who I think is really cool, by the way, different though we may be) is doing one, and invited me to tag along.
Finishing will be a stretch, and I haven't run like this in years. But it feels great to be running regularly again, and timing and training instead of just sort of ambling along when I get the whim. I love pretty much everything about distance running - being outside, the rhythm, the solitude, the thought processes, the mind games...
Hooray for running!
I'm training for a half marathon. My mother-in-law (who I think is really cool, by the way, different though we may be) is doing one, and invited me to tag along.
Finishing will be a stretch, and I haven't run like this in years. But it feels great to be running regularly again, and timing and training instead of just sort of ambling along when I get the whim. I love pretty much everything about distance running - being outside, the rhythm, the solitude, the thought processes, the mind games...
Hooray for running!
Monday, July 26, 2010
Flowers
I had beautiful, lush, full flower pots. My first attempt at potted plants, and they looked GREAT! I planted them in March, and they were still flowering because I was careful to "dead head" them often. They were snapdragons, oreja de raton, ivy, a cultivar version of forget-me-nots that is hardier, and a tall plant in the middle that I'm forgetting the name of.
Why all the past tense, you may wonder? Well, despite the fact that no matter which way he came into the house he walked by one pot or the other (since I placed one pot on each porch), Ben killed them while I was gone.
Why all the past tense, you may wonder? Well, despite the fact that no matter which way he came into the house he walked by one pot or the other (since I placed one pot on each porch), Ben killed them while I was gone.
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