Hard Wednesday. We get after it in the BAC House of Pain. Four components:
1) High cadence at low resistance. One song.
2) Seated climbs at sub threshold. One song.
3) Standing climbs with increasing loads. One song.
4) MAX power for 12 seconds, seated.
Recover and repeat for one hour.
We then take the day for personal and professional purposes, put some bread on he table, help out with the extended family, sweep the floors. Read of others on their roads.
Then we return 12 hours later to do a recovery 5K in the park. And now that Frankie has identified my winged friends as Barn Swallows (although I still think they are Pacific Swifts) the adventure now contains additional layers of interest. Whatever the genus, these birds whizzz at low levels, flying circles around us as we run. Sometimes they pass within reach, almost laughing as they pull off high-speed turns. They criss-cross in opposite directions narrowly avoiding mid-air collisions as our foot strikes build drama. I think they are feeding. Picking of bugs at mach-5. But I also suspect that they are keenly aware of our presence and like the camaraderie of our runs. They are light, happy and thrilled by the adventure.
They know that the road is the goal. It seems to me that there is a lesson we can learn from them, whoever they are.
Photo: The goal.
2 comments:
those are martens. here in MN we have lots of them.
Yeah, the book said they are difficult to tell apart. I am no expert. I should shoot some video. Maybe tonight.
Post a Comment