Five Plus Blueberries in the Commons

They were calling for "unhealthy air" today. Doesn't that just make you think that as humans we're doing something seriously wrong to the world around us? Yikes! Needless to say, it was hot and humid and around 70 degrees when I headed out at 7am for a run in the Commons.

They're constructing a new hockey arena next to the Bowdoin field house, and they've already blocked off a lot of access to the fields. But this morning, even the narrow strip of gravel between the field house and the construction zone was blocked off. Crap! Around I went. The long way. Tack on another 1/4 mile to the out-and-back.

My legs felt pretty good, considering we'd spent the last two days backpacking. Of course, neither of those days were marathon hikes, but still solid days out in the woods. The downside of the run was the deer flies, which buzzed around continually, and the fact that the grasses towards the end of the Commons have started to get pretty tall and make the path really narrow. Nothing like high grass to make my legs itchy! Silly allergies...

But, the flies and grass were forgotten when I realized that the blueberries were starting to ripen! There is one stretch that gets great sun, out in the pine barrens, and the blueberries were everywhere along the trail. I couldn't resist stopping to pick a few :-) A nice refreshing boost mid-run!