Tranquility

 I can envision myself getting there - 300 by year’s end. Go, Ace, go!

The Next Badge

 

“Congrats on making it 270 miles! Only 70.489 million more miles and you would make it to Mars.”

😂

I gave myself the year to finish 300 miles, figuring I could walk or maybe jog an average of a mile a day. When things were going well, I aimed to finish before daylight savings time ended. The wind was out of my sails, I’d lost my steam, and then I downloaded and started to use Runkeeper. No more having to memorize the route I walked, or walk the same repetitive (aka boring) ones. I can wander the neighborhood as the whim arises!

And the neighborhood is very interesting. Yesterday I took an hour or so to explore where an event would be. Totally missed it, but walked the furthest I have since May. Successfully found it with the help of google and was able to attend.

Today, I was treated to the sight of the various levels of progress on a huge neighborhood water project. I am so grateful my city is investing in this essential and not-glamorous infrastructure. If I’m successful at adding photos, the first one is the pile of old pipes that caught my eye in July; the second one is from today. We were without water service for about 13 hours on Wednesday  (if they shut off when they said they would-we weren’t home at the start), longer than planned/anticipated because they “hit a snag”. I had to wonder if the second photo might have been “the snag”. Wish me luck!