I got in 7 miles yesterday after work. I did Forest Ridge in 1:35. I'm super happy with that and my fitness considering how few quality miles I've gotten in since Thanksgiving. That's pretty much the same time I've been running out there for nearly 15yrs. Oh, and my foot is still not right either, although it doesn't bother me when I run. I did push extra hard to get that yesterday though. I never stopped to walk from Aralia all the way on the jeep road past the water tower and back to the gravel parking lot on 360. I seriously cannot remember the last time I might have done that.
I really needed those miles and that time alone. My grandmother passed away Saturday afternoon around 230. It's so difficult to put into words what she meant to me. Growing up a fatherless child had us spending lots an lots of time with our grandparents. She'd pick us up from school some days when we were in elementary school. She'd bust us sometimes walking home through the creek because she'd come to pick us up sometimes unannounced and we wouldn't be on the 1.5 mile road route home. Then we'd get in trouble later. We just couldn't understand why Mom didn't want us walking home through the creek. Her explanation (not that one was needed) to us then was panthers in the creek. That became a good family joke years later. I loved being in the woods even then!!
Besides having a clear memory of my grandmother turning 50 I have so many little tidbits of memories of her. Not all are good but I guess she's human like the rest of us. She treated some of us differently than others and was a terrible in law to my granddads family but she was still my Mama Dee. I simply cannot imagine where I'd be in life or the person I'd be without her and my granddads love and guidance.
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