The place was empty. Most of the runners had long since finished their runs. Only a few people were hanging around.<\/p>\n
It had been a wonderful day for a run. The route was a long gradual climb on the way out, which of course meant a long gradual descent on the way back. It’s always nice to have the hard part behind you on a long run and even nicer to have a cool breeze in your face.<\/p>\n
I had done six miles which is substantially less than what the real runners<\/em> were running that day, but it was enough for me, and I was pooped. So I grabbed a mat, found a place on the floor (in truth there was plenty of space to be had) and began to stretch. <\/p>\n Across the room, the Fair and Industrious Trudy was talking to a woman from her running group. Trudy has the misfortune to be the wife of slow-man-running<\/em>, so she was lingering waiting for me, killing time by chatting with Elizabeth.<\/p>\n After a while, Elizabeth got up to leave. She gathered her stuff and began to walk out. And as she left, she turned looked in my direction. She held a hand up in the air.<\/p>\n “Go team us!” Elizabeth said.<\/p>\n I smiled and waved and said, “Yeah!”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The place was empty. Most of the runners had long since finished their runs. Only a few people were hanging around. It had been a wonderful day for a run. The route was a long gradual climb on the way out, which of course meant a long gradual descent on the way back. It’s always […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4290"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4290"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4295,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4290\/revisions\/4295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}