Today’s run: 5.01 miles, 55:44. YT: 391.61. Decided to do a nice and easy 5-miler. The East River was steamy and beautiful today – greener than I remember, with blooming trees that smelled like honeysuckle.

Guys: I moved to New York! I feel the need to take a little blog moment to celebrate that. Interspersed with (temporary) goodbyes, in two weeks I sold upwards of 20 furniture/household items and a car, held a yard sale, boxed, lugged and shipped 16 boxes, and ran 18 miles – while working full time.

I do feel more *here* now that there is only here – just my sublet. It’s a strange, light feeling.

There were some surprises the awaiting me here. Among them: Ernie and Martha’s two sills, instead of being on boarded up windows, are now  open spaces exposing the gut renovation that’s going on next door. (I wonder if the old lady really did live there, and her falling episode was the beginning of her moving out process.) So now I have new workmen friends doing their thing about 4 feet away from where I sleep and where I dress. And I don’t have blinds. Hello workmen friends! I’ll get a better pic next time. Incidentally, Ernie and Martha were on the sill this morning before the workmen showed up, but it’s hard to say what this development means for their own construction (nest).

Now that the moving’s done, it’s time to rack up some serious mileage in the next weeks. If I were on track, I’d be at 500 miles by the close of June. That’s not going to happen, but let’s see how close I can get.