I need to go outside. It’s morning. It’s dark, and Mars should be rising in the east, a bright red dot above the horizon. Above Rigel. I need to go outside. It’s early morning, and although it’s muggy and warm, the ground is soft from a light drizzle last night. I need to go outside. […]
Yearly Archives: 2013
Time Trials
Tue, 8 Oct 2013, 11:53 PM (-06:00)
The marching band was practicing as we ran by. The director was running them thru their routine over and over again, sometimes just playing the music, sometimes playing while marching. On the other side of the high school, a team from Austin Fit was jogging around the track and doing core exercises on the far […]
One Fine Day
Sun, 6 Oct 2013, 07:59 PM (-06:00)
In the deep dark of early morning, thunder woke us. Rather, the dogs barking at distant thunder woke us, and then storm’s approach and the eventual rain kept us up. Rain, glorious rain! The storm passed just before dawn. The race was at 7:30, so we left an hour before, watching the front pass to […]
Entirely Sufficient
Sat, 5 Oct 2013, 09:55 AM (-06:00)
After the week’s long run which frankly was not that long. Sitting on the floor. On a pad. Sweating. Stretching. Rolling out a sore rectus femoris. Other Rogue runners all around sitting and sweating and stretching and rolling and talking. They’re all talking. I’m not. I’m in this post-run euphoric zone, happy to just sit […]
After Dusk
Wed, 2 Oct 2013, 08:14 PM (-06:00)
After dusk I walked out back. Walked across the soft ground still rejoicing from the rain of several days ago. Walked in that evening light that follows the invisible-gray but precedes the black. Walked with a pail in my hand. A steel pail with a lid. A lid covering the compost. The compost filling the […]
Reading Email on the Weekends
Sat, 21 Sep 2013, 12:13 PM (-06:00)
“Shi*!” I turned around. The guy next to me had pulled his phone out of his dufflebag and was staring at it with a frown. “That can’t be good,” I said. He looked at me and shook his head and put his phone back into the dufflebag which he put into his locker. “No,” he […]
Walker and Laura
Mon, 16 Sep 2013, 09:34 PM (-06:00)
The groomsmen stood under blue skies with a Gulf breeze blowing. Their shoes were spotless and shiny. Thin black stripes ran up the legs of their dress pants. They wore slate-blue ties and creme-white shirts under black suit coats. The sun of the late afternoon lit their faces where they stood solemnly with their hands […]
Madeline
Wed, 11 Sep 2013, 11:21 PM (-06:00)
The listing said that the unit was empty. And the original asking price was very interesting, although later in the day price bumped up. Still, we were curious, so we went to take a look. Unit 4 was at the end of the complex in the dark shade of some Live Oak trees. It was […]
Jen and Tonics Day 1
Tue, 10 Sep 2013, 08:55 PM (-06:00)
Ten years ago we ran around the track, we ran up hills, we did sprints, and we ran long runs on the trails and up to Far West before sunrise in the summer. The coach was lousy. The workouts were fine, I suppose, and I trained harder than I ever had before (although as for […]
Spider and Bees
Sun, 8 Sep 2013, 08:26 PM (-06:00)
1. A Spider There was a spider on the leaf. A tiny green one with huge green claw-like front legs. It sat motionless on a leaf as we watched. It sat motionless even as we approached. I pointed at it, but it did not move until I crossed some threshold just millimeters away from that tiny […]