JogLogFog3

Recall how:

an ice-bow of color briefly appears in the high cirrus clouds of an afternoon sky (Kensington, 8 Oct)
young "Rue" tells tales of her early life, courtship, family, and bandita invasions of multiple Boston Marathons (Bethesda, 14 Oct)
a pair of ducklings paddle along behind their parents ... an albino squirrel scampers across the path ... a crane stands stiff-legged in the ripples above a small waterfall (Washington, 21 Oct)
heavy rains presage what the Marathon in the Parks would offer a few days later: puddles, mud wallows, and a young two-point white-tail buck that retreats into the wet woods (Rockville, 11 Nov)
ice and snow close the tracks and turn campus sidewalks into slippery propositions (College Park, 8 Dec)
fluorescent-flashlight flicker on an evening ramble brings echoes of a night scuba dive off La Jolla (~1976) and a lost-in-the-dark-drizzly-forest (~1995) West Virginia adventure — both with dicey moments due to insufficient preparation and lack of foresight, both with ultimately happy endings (Silver Spring, 18 Dec)
"Lonnie" describes pushing her kids in a pram, her marathon experiences in the 1980s, her return from retirement, her recent knee pains, her new grandchildren, and her plans for long races this spring (Rock Creek Trail, 21 Dec)

Those are memories that need to be preserved — in contrast to mere log entries of miles traversed. Shakespeare in Sonnet CXXII writes:

Thy gift, thy tables, are within my brain
Full character'd with lasting memory,
Which shall above that idle rank remain,
Beyond all date, even to eternity:
Or, at the least, so long as brain and heart
Have faculty by nature to subsist;
Till each to razed oblivion yield his part
Of thee, thy record never can be miss'd.
That poor retention could not so much hold,
Nor need I tallies thy dear love to score;
Therefore to give them from me was I bold,
To trust those tables that receive thee more:
To keep an adjunct to remember thee
Were to import forgetfulness in me.

And thus the table below casts but a faint shadow of on-the-run activities in this year's final quarter (7 Oct 2002 - 5 Jan 2003):

M +	T +	W +	T +	F +	S +	S =	Total
	8		4		9		21
10			4		9		23
10						26	36
	4				5	6	15
	5				8		13
6						26	32
						2	2
	4				2		6
2						3	5
					5	3	8
		4		2	10	1	17
	4				10	3	17
	4		4		16		24

... though if digits could tell stories the pair of Sunday "26" mile figures above might step forward to speak ....

(see also JogLogFog (9 Jun 2002), RainpostsAndGodrays (23 Sep 2002), JogLogFog2 (11 Oct 2002), Bless the Leathernecks (28 Oct 2002), MarineCorpsOrdnance (1 Nov 2002), LoseTrack (11 Nov 2002), Rocky Run (17 Nov 2002), HealthyTrails (24 Nov 2002), TwoTowers (29 Dec 2002), ...)

TopicRunning - TopicPersonalHistory - 2003-01-16

(correlates: ThanksAndAcknowledgements3, ConflictAversion, 2005-11-03 - PBT at Night, ...)