Missing Anne Jane today! So yours truly reports:
Next up: Wendy Bennett Trailhead (Schenley Park, beginning of Overlook Drive where it heads up to the Oval) at spring blossom time.
Cold and blowy this a.m., but we got warm fast, running practically straight uphill to the fantastic lookout at Herron Hill Park above Oakland - a neighborhood that I have just discovered is also picturesquely known as Sugartop (also the site of a murder last summer, but never mind...) We could see that the UPMC sign on the USX building towered over everything - it was noted that 1. it is higher than Mt. Washington 2. against a grey ominous sky like today's it can be compared to the Eye of Sauron and 3. David Bear deserves kudos for his idea of turning the top of it into the next urban park (http://highpointpark.org/). On our much easier downhill return to Phipps, we stopped to contemplate the arrestingly metaphorical red hands recently painted on the statue of Christopher Columbus, and also everyone's experience of Latin, which was not quite enough to translate Non Nobis Solum Sed Toti Mundo inscribed on one of the many majestic classical buildings on the way (easily googled, however: Not For Ourselves Alone But For All the World - I should have got that!)
Coffee was so relaxed that, without Anne Jane there to keep us on track, we forgot to come up with a run for next week, so Wendy and I just assumed the power. Runners to the run - any additional instructions?
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