Foolish gibberish
My little brother got married today.
OK, so I am totally procrastinating the boring 6 hour drive to Spokane right now. My kid brother is getting married tomorrow. I am excited to see my family but not at all excited for the drive. If you have never driven through Eastern Washington you don’t know how horrid it is. It is hours and hours of nothing but bare desert.
So, instead, I am scanning more negatives. Here is a picture I made at Wildwood Park in Welches, Oregon using my Yashica Mat and Ektar 100 film. I also used Adobe Lightroom to process it bit. I am using a trial version of Lightroom because the software I use, Bibble, has been bought by Corel and they want to charge me, yet again, to upgrade. I figure if I am going to shell out the cash for upgrades I might as well get Lightroom since it is the industry standard. And, in fact, it is far superior to Bibble. I don’t know why I waited so long. I will be purchasing it when my trial is over.
My running program is going along fantastically! I reached a milestone a couple of weeks ago. I finally completed a 5 mile run. This is huge for me and has been a goal for as long as I’ve been running. For some reason five miles always seemed so far away but I finally did it! yay! I am working my way through a 10k program which will end this week. Technically, my longer run from this past weekend should have been 10k but I decided to run along the Salmon River Trail. I love trail running very much so I had fun and it was beautiful but trail running really slows you down because you have to watch where you step at all times. A mile into my run I wasn’t paying attention and I tripped on the roots of a tree and I fell hard. I bloodied up both knees and bruised my shin when I skidded on the ground. I am ever so grateful I didn’t land on any sharp river rocks. I got up and finished running my five miles on the trail and felt good. Unfortunately, I think I wrenched my back because it is really hurting today. I felt a twinge of pain on Monday and ignored it while I went to work and lifted books and moved tables heavy furniture. Then I ran yesterday even though it hurt. By this morning it was screaming at me. Seriously. I could cry I am in so much pain today. I am literally getting by on an overdose of ibuprofen. The lesson, then, is to listen to my body. Don’t overdo it. I am not one that can overdo. I have never been this kind of person. I have a pretty weak constitution and when I overdo things I either get sick or hurt. I know this. I should know better.
So I will take a few days off and let things heal. Then I am back to my training. Hopefully on Monday I will get that 10k in on a less challenging trail. Then I will enroll in a 10K race. Probably the one in Estacada in September. Then, after a few months of running 6 miles for my long run on the weekend, I will start training for a half marathon. The August issue of Runner’s World has a really great article and half marathon training program that I’ll use.
So there is where I am at with the whole running thing. I’m pretty stoked right now, injuries, hurts, and all.
Me and my friend, Heidi in 1992. I was 22. I had just finished my stint as a nanny in New York and was in between jobs, on my way to California. I want to say that this was taken the day I got my first tattoo. Honestly, though, I don’t know. I do remember that Heidi was with me when I got my tattoo. Maybe it was a different visit to Spokane? hmmm.
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