Archives for August 2015

I have been going out on the local trails for my walking “training” – good for the heart, mind and spirit. Left Fox Hollow and headed over to Dillard trail head. Got distracted by a sharp left going downhill. Went downhill, but it was steeper than I am used to. Found a sharp right at the bottom of the trail and continued to go downhill. Eventually ran out of downhill and turned around; lesson #1: if it’s downhill all the way there, it is likely to be uphill all the way back.

Met Bruce and Janice, who between them are 170 years old and happy to be here. We walked uphill for a while and then Bruce, being 88, thought that he had had enough uphill for awhile. His week-old pacemaker told him that caution was the better part of valor. As they turned and came past me they asked after my parking situation and suggested that I follow them down to the Martin Street trail head and catch a ride up to my car.

Bruce turned to me and said as we drove off, “Young man, 68 is young, believe you me. It just keeps on getting better and better from here on out.”

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Photo by Michael Lebowitz. All rights reserved. 

Was working working on my photo images and my galleries and thinking about my friends who are rolling through the heat of The Western States Endurance Run, a hundred miles of up and down with a couple of river crossings and summer heat.

I’m seeing lots of images of people i have come to know and respect.

Yeah, I’m glad it’s not me this year. I wish them the best ofeverything on this day: let them run long all the way to the end, run easy and, for goodness sake, let them get home safe.

Yeah, and I’m also kind of envious, a bit jealous, impatient/nervous to push my own recovery harder, and mostly wistful on a hot summer day.

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Photos by Michael Lebowitz. All rights reserved.

Went for a longish Sunday walk/run and remembered some other walks/runs in the forest; one of them looked like this creek; another was quiet like a branch on Sunday morning.

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Photos by Michael Lebowitz. All rights reserved.