...on running and radishes...
First, check out this NY Times article, about an event 'in our backyard' today:
And here's the official website:
Crazy people, eh? I mean--TWENTY-SIX MILES UPHILL all the way!!!!!
Down at the base of the mountain, I did my weekend 7-mile run in Sabino Canyon...doesn't really seem like an 'accomplishment,' when thinking of the hundreds of people who ran UP the Santa Catalinas today...and it was indeed a picture perfect October day in Tucson...
...entirely unrelated, now...
I was washing some vegetables this evening, getting ready to pack some work-lunches for the upcoming week, and I'm chopping the leafy tops off some radishes, when, from the childhood recesses of my brain come the words--the name, really--"Roger Radish."
Huh?
Yes, Roger Radish. And Penelope Strawberry...
Behold:
This is the cover of a children's book--and I actually had this book--one in a series--when I was a little kid...
(More information about this British series of children's books from the 1970's:
...ahh, the wonder of Google image search...a thought comes to me in the kitchen, and I can run in the next room and type something on the computer--and instantly a childhood memory is no longer simply a cerebral approximation, but a reproduction on the computer screen.
I think I was 4 or 5 years old, living in Germany, the last time I saw that book...
Radishes ready;
plan to run more later...
(...view of the entrance to Bear Canyon, parallel to Sabino Canyon, well below Mt. Lemmon;
ran with the cellphone one afternoon last week...)
