Cumulative mileage: 30 miles
I am back in the running fray. You lay off running for a week and it's hard to notch up the usual mileage again. Also, without your music, you might have to work on your rhythm too. But I am genuinely sore after street-pounding a paltry 3 miles. Hey, I am not complaining or bitter. I am grateful to be back on the streets with my music, my jogging shoes and the sweat on my brows. In addition, running is becoming a joy in the late afternoon here because it is cooler and best of all, it rained last night in LA and the ground was soft. It felt like running on cupcakes...past the kid soccer games at Mar Vista park and beyond the Halloween trinkets put up by residents along Barrington Ave in West Los Angeles. The air was crisp and a tad moist...perfect for a run.
The media in the U.S. has attention deficit disorder even when there are no large catastrophes happening in the world that could be sensationalized. Witness the lack of coverage of the Burmese monks. The last we heard was that they had been corralled into some northern province and held under surveillance lest they cause more problems with their peaceful, non-violent protests. In the meantime, Condolezza Rice finds more reason to lecture Russian President Putin on the salient features of democracy and governance. She still hasn't felt the need to apologize for being part of a regime that orchestrated an unprovoked attack against a sovereign nation followed by an occupation that has never been ratified by the United Nations or has been put to vote for the occupied peoples.
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