DEFPOTEC

The past two days have been absolutely lovely!  "Is this not a day that God made just for running?" I asked a couple of our runners, and they agreed.  The temperature on Monday soared into the 60s, and this afternoon on our deck it reached 72.  We actually sat in the sun for awhile and have visibly "gotten a little sun."  So I got out the light running shirt Monday, and my singlet today, buried in the drawer where it took shelter since last year.

I enjoy running with friends, but sometimes it becomes a little boring running the same route (3.15 miles) at the same pace (as fast as some of us can go) every afternoon.  I like to vary the pace, vary the terrain, and especially vary the route.  So yesterday I ran almost two miles with the afternoon running group, but then took a left-hand turn off-course and rambled all over Town - down Spring Street, back up the middle of Main Street, and around the lake.  Soon traffic will be so congested that it will not be safe to run up Main Street.

Today I turned off even sooner, heading up Big Bearpen from Chestnut Street after the first half-mile of camaraderie.  It was dusty on Big Bearpen Road, so I turned on Upper Lake Road, went out to Bowery Road, looked out over the Eastern Continental Divide on the Horse Cove Road, and headed back down Main Street from the opposite direction as yesterday.  I do enjoy company while I run, but I also enjoy simply rambling wherever I want, and these days that means I am usually alone with my thoughts, with the aromas of Spring,with the gentle breeze, the sun and the shadows, and especially with the sharp, sharp images all around me since my cataract surgery.  Visual acuity is a wonderful thing!  It is a blessing!  Yesterday at Dr. Secosan's office I found I could nearly read the bottom line (20/20) of the eye chart:  DEFPOTEC.