1st there was the presidential debate from hell......

and now I learn that both Helen Reddy and Mac Davis died yesterday as well.....two of my 1970s musical heroes.  "I am Woman" got me through the mid '70s, and I just loved Mac Davis. 2020 continues to suck.

 
                                             https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5CHIlv9yeo

                                               https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ll8BBZCNoqk

(ex update tm run 26.2 mi to finish Big Surreal virtual challenge, run ytd 1206 miles.   A.M. dog walk 2.5 miles, really smoky out, ytd walk 527.7 miles.  Run/walk total 1733.7 miles out of goal of 2020.)

Brilliant

 

ex update, run 3.1 mi tm, ytd 1179.8 mi.    Walk dog 2.2 miles, ytd walk 525.2 miles.  Total run plus walk = 1705 out of 2020.

Warning: Visiting this site may cause increased happiness.

 (I saw the above comment earlier today and it made me smile)

ex. update: run tm 4.1 miles, ytd run total 1176.7 miles.  walk dog a.m. 3.1 miles, ytd walk 523 miles.  Total run and walk miles 1699.7 miles.  I just registered for next year's Run The Year 2021.   

Summer is so last season!

 (ex update, tm pm 1.1 miles to save run streak, ytd total 1172.6 miles.   a.m. dog walk 1 miles, ytd walk miles 519.9 miles.   Cold chilly day)

 (ex update, early am tm 2.1 mi. ytd 1171.5 miles.   walk 3.7 miles, ytd walked 518.9 miles.  easy Saturday) 

      I watched last season's episodes of NCIS recently, I finished season 17, episode 20, The Arizona, tonight.  I have to say that Christopher Lloyd at age 81 is still a fabulous actor! It was a good episode remembering The Arizona and its crew from Pearl Harbor.

     What to watch next while I'm on the Treadmill?

(ex update run 3.5 miles, ytd 1169.4 miles.  am dog walk 4.5 miles, ytd miles walked 515.2) 

(ex update pm tm 2.3 mi, ytd 1165.9 mi.   am walk dog 4 mi, ytd walk 506.7 mi)

Smile while you still have teeth.

 (ex update tm pm 6.2 mi, ytd 1164.1mi.  am walk 2.5 miles, walk ytd 506.7 mi)

      I will always think of Ruth Bader Ginsburg doing her plank workout when I get tired.  She could also do 20 push-ups. Just look at that form. She was amazing.  

(ex update, run 2.5 miles, ytd 1157.9 miles.  walk 3.6 miles, ytd walk 504.2 miles, also 2 planks)

 (ex update run 1.5 mi  pm, ytd 1154.9 mi.    am walk 2.7, ytd walk miles 500.6)

 (ex update, run 21 mi. tm, ytd 1153.4 mi.   walk am 2.5 mi, ytd 497.9 miles

 (ex update, run 1.5 mi, ytd 1132.4 miles.   walk 4.4, ytd 495.4 miles)

 

When Great Trees Fall

by Maya Angelou...

When great trees fall,

rocks on distant hills shudder,

lions hunker down

in tall grasses,

and even elephants

lumber after safety.

When great trees fall

in forests,

small things recoil into silence,

their senses

eroded beyond fear.

When great souls die,

the air around us becomes

light, rare, sterile.

We breathe, briefly.

Our eyes, briefly,

see with

a hurtful clarity.

Our memory, suddenly sharpened,

examines,

gnaws on kind words

unsaid,

promised walks

never taken.

Great souls die and

our reality, bound to

them, takes leave of us.

Our souls,

dependent upon their

nurture,

now shrink, wizened.

Our minds, formed

and informed by their

radiance,

fall away.

We are not so much maddened

as reduced to the unutterable ignorance

of dark, cold

caves.

And when great souls die,

after a period peace blooms,

slowly and always

irregularly. Spaces fill

with a kind of

soothing electric vibration.

Our senses, restored, never

to be the same, whisper to us.

They existed. They existed.

We can be. Be and be

better. For they existed.

 

 (ex update, run tm 3.1 miles, ytd 1130.9 miles.  walk dog am 3.2 miles, walk ytd 491 miles)

 

(ex update, tm pm 5 mi, ytd 1127.8 mi;  am dog walk 3 mi ytd 487.8 mi)

 

(ex update, run tm pm 3.5 mi, ytd run 1122.8 miles.  am walk 3.9 miles, ytd walk 484.8 miles)

 

(ex update, run 3.5 mi pm tm, ytd 1119.3 miles.  am dog walk 3.2 miles, ytd 480.9 miles)

 

(ex update, run 5 mi tm pm, ytd 1115.8 miles.  am dog meander 3 miles, ytd walk 477.7 miles)

”Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked... which you can walk with love and reverence.” ~~Henry David Thoreau~~

 

Beautiful weather today, which makes up for last week's snow and cold.  Ex update, tm run 11 miles for Big Surreal virtual 11 mi race, ytd run 1110.8 miles.  Am dog walk 3 miles, ytd walk miles 474.7.  Counting running and walking I'm on track to hit 2020 miles total in 2020.

I'm a run streaker

 (ex update, run 1.5 tm, ytd 1099.8 mi.  walk 3.6 miles, ytd 471.7 miles)

“Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.” ― Anne Lamott

      I walked by the memorial for Capt. Jason Dahl this morning.  He was the pilot on United Airlines flight 93 which was hi-jacked and crashed in Pennsylvania on 9-11-2001. Always remember.

(ex update, run 5 miles tm noon, ytd 1098.3 miles.  walk am 2.7 miles, ytd walk 468.1 miles)

"If you really want to enjoy life, you must work quietly and humbly to realize your delusions of grandeur." —Mark Helprin, a soldier of the Great War

 

(ex update, jog 4.2 treadmill, ytd 1093.3 miles.  walk dog in am 2.5 miles, ytd miles walked 465.4)

“Maybe working on the little things as dutifully and honestly as we can is how we stay sane when the world is falling apart.” ― Haruki Murakami

 

(ex update run tm 6.2 to complete Bolditude virtual 10k, ytd run total 1089.1;  am dog walk 2 miles, ytd walked 462.9 miles, just light snow this morning, no ice pellets stinging my face like yesterday LOL)

Sunlight

(ex update, jog 2 mi, ytd total 1082.9;  am dog walk 1.6 mi, ytd total 460.9, cold snowy day)

Same boat

(ex. update, run tm pm 3.1 mi, ytd 1080.9 mi.   walk 4.7 mi in am, walking dog and walking with Kate at Hudson Gardens to see fall flowers before tomorrow's freeze and snow, ytd walk 459.3 mi)

     Hope.  We all need some these days.

                                        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GImHBBbH5E4

      Today starts year 7 of my running a minimum of 1 mile every day.  Today is day 2191 of my streak, and I've run 11471.2 miles in those 6 completed years. Onward and upward.

     (update today, run 7.5 mi for year to date total of 1069.3 miles run.  walk 0.6 miles, year to date total 449.1 miles walked)

 

(ex update, run 3.1 mi., ytd 1061.8 mi.  walk dog 1.5 miles, ytd walk 448.5 mi.)

(ex update, run 2, ytd 1058.65 miles;  walk 1 mi, ytd 447 miles)

scha·den·freu·de

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noun

1. pleasure derived by someone from another person's misfortune.

   "a business that thrives on schadenfreude"

(ex. update run 5.2 miles tm pm, ytd total 1056.65.  walk dog am 2.1 miles, ytd total 446 miles)