Saturday Run

Another leisurely 6.2 miles today.  I think that'll be my regular training run now for a while.  As long as I can go outside in nice weather I'll do 6.2.  It had been 5.2 but I might as well up it while I can.  I seldom do anything less than 5.2--it just feels like I haven't accomplished anything and it leaves me wanting.  Inside on the treadmill is different but even there certainly never anything less than 4.  Route:  Warren, West Main, Ives, Oak, Higgins, Linear Park, North Brooksvale, South Main, Main, West Main, Warren.  61 Minutes.

Noticed something funny while I was out running.  For years, the recycling program in town consisted of placing our stuff in a blue plastic tote box which every week would be collected manually by guys from a recycling company.  So every December the guys, after emptying the totes, would leave behind self-addressed envelopes and a Christmas card in the totes--looking for holiday tips, of course.  Well, a couple weeks ago the town switched recycling companies and the new one doesn't use the totes--a truck with a mechanized arm drives by and empties a larger container.  The change left the other guys in the lurch.  They've been doing the recycling duty all year so dammit they want their tips only there are no more totes AND the guys don't even work around here anymore.  So apparently they went around and unceremoniously left their cards and envelopes inside plastic ziplock bags on residents' front lawns.  Can't imagine they'll fare well at all considering most of them were just lying on the grass down by curbside.