Wednesday, March 12, 2014

Walk


I couldn't spend one more day sitting at the table studying. I had to get outside today. I mean, I studied, but then around 6 pm I went outside and walked. It was a slow, ordinary walk, not some mad Olympic track and field race. I just cruised along. I passed my neighbors' PVC fence with the rails that are always falling down. I passed some bamboo that has rapidly raced through the area and is threatening my own neighborhood.

I don't know who the idiot who planted that crap is, but if I find them I'm going to stab them to death with bamboo!


I passed the neighbor with the dogs that always leap through their barbed wire fence and chase me when I jog. And I noticed that the pretense of fence was gone - no posts and no barbed wire - and so were the dogs.

I passed the neighbor who owns about 5 acres and saw him and his 2 dogs walking around in his garage. His German shepherd usually comes out and runs along with me when I'm jogging past, or biking. He loves to have someone to chase. And as long as the batteries in his shock collar keep him from actually getting at me I'm fine with that. He never barks and looks mean. He just seems terribly excited to chase me. I even speed up sometimes just to make it more fun for both of us.


I passed the bridge where trashy people go to dump their garbage into the stream. There was furniture down there. And a gigantic bag of some sort. Petroleum was leaking from the bag in a rainbow-colored wisp that flowed from it. I don't know what was in the bag, but it was doing a bang-up job of polluting the crap out of the stream. The obligatory truck tires were in the water. I walked on.


I came to a smaller bridge and stopped to look into the water before turning around. Someone had dumped things here, too. There was a head gasket for a car engine with 4 distinct cylinders. There was a digital ignition box halfway in the water. And there was a truck axle. What the heck?? This was a low bridge. The water wasn't deep. From the top of the bridge to the bottom of the little stream probably wasn't 3 feet. But somehow someone had managed to dump all their spare parts here from a truck they had either totaled or rebuilt, I don't know which.

At this point I turned back and walked on home. I wasn't in a hurry. I took my time. By the time I reached home I think I had walked about 4 miles at the most.

But my legs felt weak and tired, as if I had run those 4 miles instead of cruising along at a leisurely walk.

I am in TERRIBLE shape.


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  1. How cool that the German Shepherd runs along the fence with you. Wonder if he thinks he is alpha top dog or its you? Been thinking a lot about that as Teddy the 6 lb maltese is alpha in our house apparently

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    1. AboutLastWeekend, I can't tell if he thinks we're just playing or if he's trying to lull me into a false sense of security and then attack me from behind. There is another big dog with him which looks to be a Lab/Chow mix or something, but I never see them fighting over the alpha role. They just seem to run the property with their tales wagging a lot. They're happy dogs.

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  2. Ah, keep running. You'll get back in shape. I've been at it for two months and I'm still not where I want to be but I'm feeling great and staying positive.

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    1. JulieMaloney, I haven't been for a run since ... probably my last race. I think it was last Autumn maybe. Even so, I'm stunned that a simple walk could take so much out of me. I desperately need to get my running shoes on and hit the trails. This is terrible. You're right, though, I need to think positive.

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  3. at least you got outside & went for a walk - better than nothin'!!!!

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    1. AlleyCat, true, and I need to do a lot more of it. My whole body desperately wants a workout. The other day when I was cutting down trees and throwing them around it actually felt good.

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  4. People always through stuff in my little garden. I don't get it. Some folks just were not properly raised, I tell yah. Anyhow, I'm still in bad shape too. It's become a chronic problem that I imagine can only be solved by having a dog chase me on a daily basis.

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    1. Blue, my neighbor throws his empty 40s everywhere, including into my backyard. I don't know why he feels the need to throw them all over town like he does. He could just throw them into his own trash like everyone else.

      It's raining today. My knee hurts like crazy. This is not a good sign and won't help any with me getting back into running again.

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    2. Maybe it's a territorial thing. It's raining here too. I know I'm staying inside.

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    3. Blue, they'd said it would rain all weekend, but it never happened and now we're in the midst of a pollen storm. And I have a completely different knee pain.

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