Reunion

Finally! I got to run with the group this morning.

I wasn't supposed to run more than an hour. Oops!

I felt it afterwards. Ran with Roll Call for the majority of the run. LSE came from out of nowhere near Atlantic Avenue and joined us for the bridge and back to the park.

Yes, it was one of the usuals. I'd be peeved except for the snow and ice.

Plus, it's been three weeks since I've run the Brooklyn Bridge. So it's become unusual again.

Also chatted with some new girls. Both really cute. Maybe PPTC is regaining some of the cuteness it lost with the several recent moves!

Didn't even feel the weather, thanks to my ridiculous number of layers. Got in some tempo over the bridge.

Then I slowed down again. I'm really not supposed to be doing that and it's so easy to forget when I am with running buddies and a deceptively sunny sky.

I even got to shop on Nostrand this afternoon. I've decided that carrying heavy groceries from almost Atlantic back to my house counts as arm work!

Heh.

Got in about 11. Shhh, don't tell!

It really put a smile on my face. I'd forgotten the importance of running with a group of people.

That and a great clue in a not-so-bad Saturday crossword: rifle shot, so to speak......line drive

Heh

Go Ravens! Too bad my cat can't cheer along with me.

Lucky

I ran to work yesterday. Starting at at bit after 5:30am.

I am lucky to have to do so sometimes.

Yes, you read correctly. It is lucky that I get to do this.

At least, on days like yesterday. Winter is a different story!

Pink and black backpack strapped on, green short shorts and red shirt. Headphones and a white wristband.

I was set.

Down Eastern Parkway and over to Union. Still really dark. I have to go slowly on this part; I'm scared I'll trip on some of the flagstone edges I can't see because of the darkness.

Still dark over the Brooklyn Bridge. Due to the lights of Manhattan and the amount of moonlight yesterday morning, the glass buildings were a series of rainbows. The sky was a deep purple and the water had that blue-purple-green wash to it that only seriously polluted water has. Visually stunning.

Remind me not to eat the local seafood.

Then, over to the West Side path, in time to see the complete process of the sunrise. Pink and purple and blue plastic clouds in and ever lightening sky.

And I got to remember and experience, first-hand, why I need to make sure to watch my weight. As I had to bring a fair amount of stuff to work, my backpack was completely full. Nothing too heavy individually but, jointly, enough to make an impact. No wonder my knees used to hurt so much when I started running!

It was like I was carrying a bit of my own history on my back, history I could unbuckle and throw on the dirty blue office carpet.

These running moments don't happen super often. Enjoy them.

Oh, and I figured out a teaching problem on the way!