Home Runs
By Tamika Whitenack
I'm inspired by the subject material and format of Cam's post (two posts ago, not the liberal arts one), so prepare for another bullet list :D
My running here is going well, and I'm starting to increase mileage a bit, but I do miss my home runs. There is this really comforting feeling of running back on the Arlington or Colusa or Richmond and knowing that I'm home-headed, or anticipating Ganges, which I privately have considered "my hill" ever since I first made it up without walking and conditioned it into my life through countless loops to the Js house and back.
Of course, I'm looking forward to seeing all you lovely people at home, too. Home is a good place.
Home runs:
-Out on Richmond to the Bart Station and back by going on Colusa above ECHS and taking a peek at the football field and reminiscing about morning XC practice
-Going out on Colusa to Solano and Monterey Market and back on the BART trail, a classic loop from XC
-Picking up Naomi and then heading to Alvarado to get on the Wildcat Creek trail
-a long, long longggggggggg run with Cam, probably meeting at Rifle and then going into Tilden and utilizing Nimitz and maybe Havey if we can find it?
-the Bay Trail, both towards Richmond and towards Emeryville
-the Cal course by UCBerkeley, maybe as a combined walk/run with Daddio and then visiting Bachan after
-out on the Arlington to Marin Circle, and looping down through Solano to Key/Ashbury or maybe going further into Berkeley
-the Recycling Center to the Ktown school trail to Selby to visit Bachan :)
-Moeser? on which I will absolutely die bc hills here are not even close to Moeser
-Bart Trail long run into Downtown Berkeley and maybe get food?
-the 2 mi loop from our house to the Js just for sentimental value
-the St Mary's course or some other appropriately hilly place in Tilden that will make for a good mud run in the winter (hopefully we get rain?!)
-Wildcat and Grizzly Peak from Bachan's house, that's a route I discovered this summer while staying at Bachan's (hopefully can have a sleepover up there while I'm home?)
There are probably more but those are the ones on my mind right now. And of course, I hope to run with lots of lovely running buddies from home too because the social aspect of running is like 55% of the fun!
Lastly, I would just like to note that this is probably a record for how long I've gone without posting and that someone other than me actually posted twice in a row (yay Cam :D).
I'm inspired by the subject material and format of Cam's post (two posts ago, not the liberal arts one), so prepare for another bullet list :D
My running here is going well, and I'm starting to increase mileage a bit, but I do miss my home runs. There is this really comforting feeling of running back on the Arlington or Colusa or Richmond and knowing that I'm home-headed, or anticipating Ganges, which I privately have considered "my hill" ever since I first made it up without walking and conditioned it into my life through countless loops to the Js house and back.
Of course, I'm looking forward to seeing all you lovely people at home, too. Home is a good place.
Home runs:
-Out on Richmond to the Bart Station and back by going on Colusa above ECHS and taking a peek at the football field and reminiscing about morning XC practice
-Going out on Colusa to Solano and Monterey Market and back on the BART trail, a classic loop from XC
-Picking up Naomi and then heading to Alvarado to get on the Wildcat Creek trail
-a long, long longggggggggg run with Cam, probably meeting at Rifle and then going into Tilden and utilizing Nimitz and maybe Havey if we can find it?
-the Bay Trail, both towards Richmond and towards Emeryville
-the Cal course by UCBerkeley, maybe as a combined walk/run with Daddio and then visiting Bachan after
-out on the Arlington to Marin Circle, and looping down through Solano to Key/Ashbury or maybe going further into Berkeley
-the Recycling Center to the Ktown school trail to Selby to visit Bachan :)
-Moeser? on which I will absolutely die bc hills here are not even close to Moeser
-Bart Trail long run into Downtown Berkeley and maybe get food?
-the 2 mi loop from our house to the Js just for sentimental value
-the St Mary's course or some other appropriately hilly place in Tilden that will make for a good mud run in the winter (hopefully we get rain?!)
-Wildcat and Grizzly Peak from Bachan's house, that's a route I discovered this summer while staying at Bachan's (hopefully can have a sleepover up there while I'm home?)
There are probably more but those are the ones on my mind right now. And of course, I hope to run with lots of lovely running buddies from home too because the social aspect of running is like 55% of the fun!
Lastly, I would just like to note that this is probably a record for how long I've gone without posting and that someone other than me actually posted twice in a row (yay Cam :D).
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| view from the Walkway over the Hudson on my Sat. run |
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| more views (thats the mid-Hudson bridge) |
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| food collected from Hunger Action food drive |
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| rice bowl: miso tofu, tamari snow peas, broccoli |
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| peanut butter cookies |
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| sushi :) |
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| FALL! |
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Aww I miss our runs. I remember that mud run with cross country. That was, I think, the most fun day of my life. It was the best day ever! We were all just laughing down the whole entire hill, with no control over where we were going. Those people told us it was going to get muddier, but we disregarded them because we thought that we'd already been through the "worst" part of the kid and they ended up being very very right. It was hilarious!!
ReplyDeleteUgh. I meant mud not kid
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