Wednesday, August 31, 2011

Little Victories

The Bob Seger version is the one I know and enjoy. Matt Nathanson? Not on my radar and a quick listen to his LV on e music suggests no interest in putting him on my radar.

As for my own version of LV -- before I got sick last year I would jog or bike at least five times a week in good seasons and maybe two or three in the cold and wintry times. I've long since been biking as part of the recovery, but avoided riding up to Riverdale in the Bronx where I go to hospice volunteering. Riverdale is along NYC's version of the Palisades across the Hudson in New Jersey, and it is a serious uphill for several stretches from where I live. But yesterday, another perfect post-hurricane day, I made it, with only one small bit of walking just past the GWB and that mostly because I got distracted and managed to drive the bike off the pathway and into the dirt alongside. Then this morning, after returning some stuff to the PetCo at 92nd, I jogged back home, a mile and a half, not much and not fast -- like I went fast anyway before -- and with some serious heaviness in the legs, but I made it. And that made me mighty happy.

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