Update

Biked twice at Blackstone and once around home since last post.  Saw the egret once and swans with lots of ducks.  So lucky for this nice place, even if bordered by roads and houses.

Ran six times, once on treadmill at gym.  Doing over three miles each time...close to four.  Worked out only twice but walked a lot.

Biking and running update

Since my last biking post on 9/26, I've biked once each week. I've looked for the egret and have sent it every time except once, hovering near the water like a statue. What an amazing bird!

I biked the Blackstone on the 5th and 12th. On the 12th it poured rain on me and I only went 14 miles, 18+ the first day. On the 12, my feet got more and more cold and when I stopped, I literally fell off the bike because I couldn't feel my feet anymore. On the ride home I shivered and at home took a hot shower but my feet were still white and plastic like for a while.

I also biked local for 12 miles on the 15th and 18.5 at Blackstone this past Monday (10/22). Feel a little like slow motion.

As for running...I ran between 3 - 5 miles every 4th day for the first two weeks of this past month. I did a 5+ trail and just felt like nothing worked. Stupidly, I increased my workout weight for leg presses and think I hurt my knees...I guess I felt like using the same weight wasn't doing anything...but it was keeping me from hurting myself!

Anyway, I only ran once last week for 3 miles and 2.5 miles this week. I will do another trail run hopefully this week.

I only swam once at the end of last month and haven't since. I should try to do that at least once per week.

Ideally - Bike x 2, run x 2, swim x 1, work out x 3...

Never getting by

Ran a little (1.25) w/ The Lu and then another 2.5 alone in the Attleboro area. Back hurt, foot hurt - I need to be able to run at least 10 miles in two weeks...ugghhh!!! Oh - although it rained a weekend and will tonight, the "Parks and Recreation Dept." thought it would be a great idea to water the soccer fields today. At least they didn't do it while it was pouring rain - like they usually do. Must have some nice palm-burning friendship (i.e. deal) with the water company. And believe me, it costs a lot to water around here. Glad someone is taking all the tax money I pay instead of where I need it - the SIDEWALKS! F-ers!!!

Here is a really cool remix from NPR:

Amazing what a note to the newspaper will do.

Today me and The Lu did a short run around the neighborhood. Guess what? The sidewalk going over the bridge (that we've asked to clean up in May) got done. Of course they left a million little bottles that someone has thrown out. But since I complained about how much they are using of my taxes to mow the field EVERY DAY, and how the sidewalks are UNSAFE to walk on, Mr. Newspaper man must have given the heads up to his Mayor buddy.

God day / bad day

Well...today was the bad day if yesterday was the God day.

Went running with the Lu at Slater and guess what...

A poor little garden snake was run over by a bike right in the middle of the trail.

And the worse thing is that Slater is not a bike trail.  Its so short - only 2.25 miles long - that mostly old folks, mothers and kids walk/run there.

Unfortunately, dumb ass people or their ignorant kids just plow over anything in their way.  That's how people grow up to be assholes...

Wow

Today on a bike ride along the Blackstone Riverway, I saw a couple of interesting things.

On the way out, the first was a beautiful egret standing right next to a bunch of cat-tails waiting for something to swim by. At first I barely saw it out of the corner of my eye, but then I stopped to look closely. It saw me too but stayed motionless.

On the way back, across the path I saw what I thought was a dead snake.  When I got closer, I saw it was alive but not really moving.  I thought it would likely get run over by a careless biker so I used a long stick and tried to get it to move in the direction it seemed to be going in.  It did move much faster but it was also not happy with me at all and started spitting and rattling it tail.  It took me awhile since I didn't want to hurt it and I didn't want to stress it too much.  Finally it went all the way across and through the fence but would not go any further.  I figured I did my good deed for the day and hoped it wouldn't come back across.

Ruining our world

Went to Slater Park three times this week. Yesterday we saw a beautiful egret. We also saw a large frog that I moved across the trail so she wouldn't get run over by a bike. A couple of days ago I saw a flock of ducks flying along the little river to land in the very low water. The swans also look gigantic.

A couple of years ago I saw a young beaver terrified and trying to get back in the river but the fence was messing him up. The water level is unbelievably low right now. I haven't seen anything like this in 12 years.

What I really wanted to talk about is the pollution collected along the giant tree down across the river. This trail is only 2.25 miles long. There are garbage cans at the beginning and the end. There are also a bunch of cans 1/3 along the way - which is less than an 1/8 mile from the collection of garbage. So, along a 1/3 mile of trail/river there are about 10 garbage cans available but lazy people that don't deserve this world at all just throw their Duncan Donuts plastic cups and other garbage in the river. There was a spray can of some poison there as well.

Then there's the other idiots with dogs that don't pick up the shit. If you walk a dog you should own bags to pick up their dropping. But at Slater they provide bags for you if you've forgotten! Imagine that! But these less than idiot brained assh.... just leave the shit there to pollute the water, get on the shoes of others, and worse yet - make it so responsible dog owners either get blamed or will eventually not have use of the park. People like these are ruining our world and don't deserve it.