Grandfather Hot Dog Stand
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as a life-long “why on earth would I do that to myself?" and "what are they running from?” sayer coasting on the metabolism and cholesterol levels of youth, I finally, when I don’t need one, have a real excuse to not like running
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Worked my way up to a jogging a full mile over the past few weeks and, I guess my form was wrong, or my body wasn’t ready in spite of all the walking I do. I didn’t notice any one bad move but when I tried to repeat the mile jog a few days later and couldn’t make it a block.
By the weekend, I had to bail a mile into a simple walk, and I’ve paused walks and strength training for at least a week while whatever is going on calms down.
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Lunch Walk
A two and a half mile (four and a quarter kilometer), 79 foot (24 meter) elevation walk over one and a half hours, (one hour moving) in California. About 5200 steps.
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21: “Family Furnishings", by Alice Munro
The later, somewhat darker, more explicitly autobiographical half of Munro’s anthologies of short stories.
Munro’s characters tend to (I know this reads like a horoscope) move on from situations for the next thing without a plan, or to be a little selfish before getting back to being serious, if they ever do. She’s always putting characters on trains, or in cars, or on buses.
Previously: https://mastodon.social/@gravely/110531577683425679, https://mastodon.social/@gravely/112440630402434626
gravely (@gravely@mastodon.social)Attached: 1 image thirteenth book of '23, “Wilderness Station" (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25194123-a-wilderness-station) by Alice Munro (previously issued as "Selected Stories” (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14281.Selected_Stories)). Wow! Loved it. The “Selected Stories” title has had time to be rated and critiqued by much more careful readers. Lots of comparisons to Chekov, who I suppose I'll check out next. I'll also definitely be getting the companion collection, Family Furnishings, Selected Stories 1995-2014.Mastodongravely (@gravely@mastodon.social)RIP Alice Munro I'm a few stories into "Family Furnishings, Selected Stories 1995-2014”, the companion to “A Wilderness Station", which I read a year ago, and expect to finish it before summer is out.Mastodon