Today’s run: 4.52 miles, 54:24 minutes. YT: 787.07. The time is slow because I stopped so many times to take photographs. Perfect 48 degree temp for running today. Brilliant.
Maybe it’s because the year’s end is near, but I’ve been battling with the 5-year-old “I don’t wanna” version of myself on my last few runs. And so today, to get myself onto the wet streets, I turned the run into a photo expedition by giving myself the challenge of finding at least 10 good shots.
Consciously asking yourself to OPEN YOUR EYES to the world around you always yields something interesting. This morning, that something was….
The avian John Wayne of East River Park:
I’m not sure that you can tell, but that is a giant hawk perched on a fence, taking one for team New York by eating a GIANT RAT. That’s the first rat I’ve seen that was as big as the one in my apartment, so needless to say, HAWK, YOU F’N ROCK. Like John Wayne’s character in The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, he’s the last bastion of a wild world, taking one for the team by eating giant rats while the rest of us go to Washington and launch political careers. Or something like that.
The rest of the photos from this a.m. are after the jump.
