Running

In case you think this has ceased being a running blog and has become dedicated to wildflower identification, I want to report that I ran 4 miles yesterday and three miles today.

The new four-mile route is more agricultural than the three-mile one and I pass three different farms on my way. Since two of the farms belong to Amish families and Amish families farm with horse-driven plows, I dodged a lot of horse poop on this route.

I also found a small, light-blue, speckled bird's egg (hatched) on the road at about mile 1 which I picked up and carried gingerly in my left hand for the remainder of the run. I presented it as a prize to Larsson once I got home. He now asks me everyday if I found anything interesting for him and I was glad to be able to give him such a treat. It's currently sitting outside in his "basket of special things" in a bird's nest that we found on one of our walks together.

My time was 44:02.

Today I was back to the familiar 3-mile route. I was grateful to be able to name birdsfoot trefoil as I ran by it but saw a few other flowers that I might need to investigate. The wildflowers are blooming in force now.

Although I thought I might be my fastest yet on this course, I ran it in 32:05 which is 3 seconds slower than one of the days last week. Oh well.

(And as much I try to constrain this blog to running, it is amazing how natural observations creep their way in.)