Mileage: 31 (Bleriot)
January mileage: 109
Year to date: 109
After a lame non-start yesterday I wanted to make up a bit of mileage to end a tough week of work. To be honest my legs haven't exactly been there this week, b/c that's alright. Instead of the same ol' Riverwalk ride I headed south towards Iroquois Pk., the old stomping grounds of my 22 yr-old self and older neighborhood of my father in his youth. I winded around Churchill Downs, Wyndotte Pk and near Iroquois H.S. into Iroquois Pk, where I headed up to the top. I love, love, love the top of Iroquois. I took some pics of the meadow in Oct of '06 about the same time of year- earthen tones, grass crackling, barren denuded trees standing sentinel in open meadow. Love it! I decided today that if I were to come upon mucho moola and bought my hermitage spread, part of it would like this below. I think this pic was taken more in fall and doesn't quite capture the winter desperation and solitude, but today's trip engendered in me a need to revisit and to evoke such a great place via new pics.
The trip home included snaking through the original 'South End', across towards UL/Cardinal Stadium, through the Fairgrounds and finally through Audabon Pk. I wouldn't say I was fresh through the 2nd portion today, but I'm satisfied with my 31miles today and it probably was my best accomplishment of the day.
3 comments:
Hey, did you see my dad out raking leaves or something?
--Laura
no but i always check out the house when i go by. i actually turned on the street just to the west, next to the house with all the columns.
That house on the corner used to have a family in it that we were friends with -- four little girls, the two oldest of whom were friends of my brother's. I babysat for all of them. They moved away. The people who live there now are a little more decadent -- applied for a permit to have a "heated" garage for their Hummer, according to Dad.
--Laura
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