Crossing to Camden

Its late, I just got back from catching my second Springsteen show this week, this time up in Holmdel NJ, right around Asbury Park. Not as good a show as the earlier one in Camden, but still better than 99.9% of what's out there.

Wanted to put in a quick word on todays (now yesterday's) run. This one was largely for therapy. After Saturday's run I felt depressed and possessing a newfound vulnerability. One day I'm trying to squeeze as many miles as I can out of this month and the next day that unsettling experience. So I went to the pharmacy and then put $2 in my shorts this morning and did a route that stayed close to SEPTA at all times. Everything felt fine as I left and kept feeling fine as the run unfolded. I loaded my iPod up with music I was unfamiliar with - Broken Family, New Pornographers, & Liz Mandville Greeson.

The run went down South St. and then north through Center City to the Ben Franklin Bridge, a destination that was way overdue. I have never run on it and often said I wanted to. Its a great run. The pedestrian walkway is about 10 meters higher than the highway, and the view is spectacular as you rise up to the middle of the Delaware and then descend again into Camden. I ran enough in Camden to see a bunch of hot rods lining up for the San Juan Bautista parade. Then it was back over the bridge. Ideally it would have been the Walt Whitman bridge, but the BFB more than sufficed. After that climax it was up Spring Garden to Lemon Hill and then home via Girard and 41st. 14 miles on this route. Time was irrelevant.