Wilmington River and Thunderbolt bridge
I’m still not feeling 100% but tonight’s 4.8 mile run did me a lot of good. One nice thing, my left calf only bothered me for about a mile. My right hip did not bother me at all and neither did my left ankle! Woo hoo! Another good thing, it was a beautiful evening for a run. The temperature was a very pleasant 61 degrees and humidity was a very unpleasant 100%. Perfect!
I ran in my neck of the woods after walking mr. Gypsy for 1.9 miles. So, I kind of knocked out a good chunk of mileage today after work, I would say.
this was part 1 of 2 of my mapped run today
The run today began in front of my house and quickly took me up Wessels to Indiana. I followed Indiana to Ohio and then 38th and back onto Wessels until it ended at the back of Piggly Wiggly. I ran around the Pig and caught Victory to whatever and then connected with Bonaventure and then back to Victory and to the top of the Thunderbolt bridge where I stopped momentarily to take a picture of the red fake flower I crammed into some gooie stuff a month or so ago. Unfortunately, at the top of the bridge I accidently stopped and saved my mapped run on runtastic. So, after careful deliberation I decided to start another session of runtastic and record the rest of my run starting from the very top of the Thunderbolt Bridge. At the end of my run I had to apply my amazing math skills and by adding the distances covered on two mapped runs today: 2.2 miles + 2.6 miles = 12 miles, right? Wrong. It equals 4.8 miles.
this is part 2 of 2 of my run today
I ran back to the bottom of the bridge and ran up Dogwood Ave to Mechanics Ave and followed that into the Wilmington River pier. The Wilmington River’s surface was like glass tonight and magnificently beautiful. Pinkish, grey colors reflected beautifully off of the surface of the Wilmington River and I had to stop again momentarily to get a few pictures. After that, though, I high tailed it back to Bonaventure ave and followed it to Georgia Ave and then back to home sweet home.
Wildlife inventory:
- 1 dove
- 4 cats
- 6 dogs
this is the flower i crammed into the tarry stuff on top of the thunderbolt bridge about a month ago.
Even though, I did not feel 100% during this evening’s run it was still a delightful run and it did what I had hoped it would do – lift my spirits. There is something very magical about running at sunset in the low country especially as you cross rivers and marshes and old oak trees draped heavily in Spanish moss. It was nice. I highly recommend a sunset run in Thunderbolt, Georgia. You will not be disappointed.
Tonight’s Running Music inventory:
- The Haunted Ocean by Max Richter
- Simple Man by Shinedown
- The world I know by Collective Soul
- Rock of Ages by Def Leppard
- Closer by Kings of Leon
- Crying Over by Patty Griffin
- Get Off by Prince
- Son of a Preacher Man by Dusty Springfield
- Hunger by Black Hawk Down soundtrack
- Stupify by Disturbed
Tomorrow, I will definitely go to the gym and lift weights, stretch and then run. Hopefully, the run will be outdoors and not on the treadmill but then again, I really should add more mileage to my treadmill run stats, do you not think so? I’ve only run 12 point something miles on a treadmill so far this year. I need to get that number up.
- run log
- mapped run part 1 of 2
- mapped run part 2 of 2
- total miles on red bikilas: 686.02
- total real miles for 2012: 52.66
- total treadmill miles: 12.72
that's me in the reflection on Bonaventure and Kansas ave.
Well, my red bikilas are almost at 700 miles and they are showing the wear and tear! The soles are ripping apart in different areas now. I may very well be running like Fred Flintstone before too long. I will close out the month of January with 700+ miles on my red bikilas! That is a promise you can believe in!
Thank you so very much for stopping by.
All the very best to you and yours.
peace,
dh
01/25/2012