~10.4 miles @ ~10.7 min/mi

Brisk morning trek down Beach Drive and back with Dr Fonda, featuring discussions of:

• varieties of haircuts
• dramatic running shirt colors
• attractions of jeggings and tights
• benefits and dangers of cross-training
• finding better paths through (mental and physical) wilderness, a lovely multidimensional metaphor
• "Shul", the ancient Buddhist term for an empty track
• negative-space concepts (cf. 0 and 1)
• Life (the classic board game)
• skillful living
• plans for upcoming races
• foot injuries

... and a host of other marvelous topics. Along the way Stephanie greets her boss Bob as he runs past, and I shake hands with cyclist Philippe, who stops to congratulate me for persistence. I remind him that in 2002 he shook my hand after my first marathon and said, "Welcome to the Club" in his beautiful French accent. (He did sub-3-hour marathons in his youth!) Runkeeper and Garmin concur to within ~4%.

^z - 2014-05-26