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March 14, 2006
Uneventful
Well, with the list of tribulations that were involved with my run yesterday, I'm happy to report that my run was uneventful today. Of course, I only ran 4 miles, what could happen? I had planned to run 6, but overdid it by a couple miles yesterday, so I figured I could prance slowly around the nearby campground for a little while and call it good. I ran 4 outer loops through the campground, did 6 strides, and ran to and from home. Whew, exhausting, I tell you.
Across the street from my neighborhood is the Mammoth Hot Springs Camground, where I occasionally run. If anyone is interested in the details of my life, you can see a map here. The pink lines are the main park roads, 2 lane and paved, hella busy during the summer, and quiet right now. In case you're wondering why they are so curvy, it's because they are all switchbacks either climbing or descending! On the right side of the map, you can see a little tent symbol with some black lines forming a flattened loop, that is the campground. My neighborhood is to the right of the campground on the map, across the pink line. I think the outermost campground loop is almost exactly a mile. I think the shorter loop with the cutoff in the middle of the campground a hair over a half mile. What's best about the campground, though, is that its roads contour the hillside, and there are no grinding hills, just a few rollers. It's also great that there isn't much traffic in there, especially now in the winter.
There were 2 parties of campers in the the campground (Brave souls, it was 9 degrees F last night!), one of which was a group of about 5 college-aged men. While I heartily believe that I'm past the age in which I should be interested in 21 year olds, they provided some nice scenery on each loop through the campground!
Posted by Meghan at March 14, 2006 7:18 PM
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NON MOVIMENTATO (uneventful) I was a little worried after a 9-day-stop (and a serious left calf pull) when I went running yesterday. But it felt so great to be out with the lingering daylight as a beautiful reminder Spring is on her way. So I was geared for a very uneventful make-sure-all-is-ok type of run when I met two friends, Carlo and Giuseppe, at the Villa Pamphili entrance - the park where I usually run, a huge patrician villa turned into public grounds, with trails studded with pine trees and gorgeous flora all-around. I see them often but we never run together because of different schedules. Yet yesterday was as if we made an appointment and were clockwork punctual. And the run started nice-and-easy, chatting about how we never run together yet spending quite a bit of time time rapping about running or seeing each other at races. So rap here, rap there, we gradually realize that we have smoothly flowed into a 6:20 pace described as "molto bello", as if we were running buddies of a decade. A gift-of-an-uneventful-almost-midweek-10K, that pace alone is not sufficient to describe. Borrowing from music, the first thing that comes to mind is "Allegro con Brio" (cheerful with liveliness). As I write this the idea to add musical interpretation to running emerges, so that that even your Sasso Giallo (Yellowstone) "Non Movimentato" (uneventful)run could become a "Tranquillo Andante," in your particular case, "Con Vista Sui Ragazzi" (with a view of the boys...) good running, corrado
Posted by: corrado giambalvo at March 15, 2006 3:43 AM
ooh! i know that area well! man, that really is some beautiful country that you get to run in.
Posted by: jeff at March 16, 2006 9:18 AM