Stair Workout

A friend who is training for a marathon and I did a stair work out at Memorial bluff today. I think we went up the stairs a total of 6 times. I was okay each time for a quarter of the way up and then my thighs started to burn like crazy. The rest of my "running" up the stairs was probably slower than walking. Man, I need to start running again! At least I'll have a bum of steel after this. I expect much pain tomorrow.

Before we did the stairs we did a nice warm up running through Prince's Island Park. There is so much wildlife there, it's awesome. I saw a few baby Canada geese, a lot of squirrels and many ducks and geese. There was one point when I found myself greeting the animals, or about to. As not to embarrass myself in front of my friend I resorted to the smile and nod - weird? Maybe. I almost feel guilty if I don't though (this is what many years of customer service does to you). I swear one of the Canada geese looked me in the eye and nodded back. I think he understood. On another note, I was also reading a book about "psychics" and it emphasized the idea that we all connected and the universe is a living organism composed of all other living organisms analogous to a body and its cells - maybe this is why I think it's important to acknowledge the animals...