today was a perfect spring day. the kind of day that makes you feel like you're in love, even if you aren't. when you breath deeply the sweet air, it fills your heart before it touches your lungs.
that's spring in portland.
i gots me some new kicks, and i'm quite enjoying them. they are plus enabled - i, however, am not. i'm probably the only nike employee who doesn't have nike+. in that i haven't been able to keep my nano charged, a fat lot of good it would do me anyway.
i've been running consistently the past couple weeks. some have been harder than others, but i've felt strong and recovered quickly. however i haven't done any long runs, or hills. so i think that is on the agenda for this weekend.
earlier in the evening, i took a walk up to mt. tabor park. i just had to be outside. i followed the dirt and gravel paths through majestic firs, and walked around the hundred year old stone reservoirs. there it is, our drinking water - ensconced in this ancient, extinct volcano. with a couple of ducks bobbing on it. the fountain in the lower reservoir was spouting toward the salmon-colored sky like a breaching whale, or a coast guard cutter during the rose festival.
this weekend's long, hilly run will be up there... break out of my routine of running the neighborhoods of northeast portland - irvington, sullivan's gulch, alameda, alberta and laurelhurst. time to cheat on my familiar birches, willows, oaks, maples and chestnut trees with some big, beefy towering firs.
picture is of a tiny flower behind my apartment, right after a spring rain.
