Short Course

This was a run I made up on the fly. I thought we'd be going to church this morning but Cindy had to do some work and so I thought if I did a loop from Locust out to Cobbs Creek down to Woodland and back on 46th, it would get me 10 or so miles. Turns out it was only 8.5 miles, which I ran in 67:12. Overcast and in 40s, great running conditions. Being a Sunday morning, all was quiet. I started off slow and creaky and got a head of steam as I headed back down Woodland on the long straightaway through the series of urban villages that for which this street is the main drag. For some reason running on this street energizes me, perhaps to get home quicker. Even though this course was short, I just squeaked in 80 miles this week, which was my goal.

My oddysey across the US continues here, as I blew through York PA this morning. I don't recall ever being in York IRL (in real life), and I can think of three things I know about the town. First, I had a colleague in Texas who I got an email from a few years back as having moved to York. We talked about getting our families together but never did. Second is that York is a center for the manufacture of hard pretzels, although I can't find too much info on this connection online. And third is that York was a scene of some major race riots some 35 or so years ago, news of which resurfaced a few years ago with some court trials. I started researching some of this stuff online but don't want to get sucked into it, so I only got up to the official York PA website, which claims that York was the first capital of the US. As a Philadelphia resident, I am very skeptical here and will shake the dust off of my boots as I leave this town. Next stop is Gettysburg, which should be a couple of days away.