running update
May. 24th, 2007 07:07 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
aryanhwyWe've been trying to get out running every other day, but because of assorted factors it's ended up being more like once or twice a week. Still, I'm noticing a big improvement in how easy it is, especially today where it was really quite nice and warm out. (Unfortunately, it was verging on being warmer than Joel likes to run in, why can't the overlap of our temperature preferences be more than 1-2 degrees??) My goal is to be able to run twice around the Oosterpark without stopping. Today I made almost made it twice around only stopping four times per circuit (twice at either end for water). So, we're getting there.
We took our cool down walk along the canal. I just love living along a canal, especially in summer. We saw a mother with nine ducklings, old enough that their permanent feathers are coming in but young enough that they still have stubby little wings. They were just nestled in the grass sunning themselves - until they realized we'd stopped to look at them! Then they all sprang up and raced towards us. Humans + stopping = food, in most circumstances.
Further down we saw a coot's nest in a boat with four of the littlest little cootlings, they had to be about the size of a peach. It will be a few weeks before they'll be big enough to make it over the edge of the boat and into the water, that's for sure! But there's some rain water collected in a little shelf at the back of the boat, their own private swimming pool.
Even further down we saw another nest in a boat, with even tinier little cootlings, so small they couldn't even step over the twigs that made up their nest. I'm going to take my camera out later tonight and see if I can get pictures of all of these.
We took our cool down walk along the canal. I just love living along a canal, especially in summer. We saw a mother with nine ducklings, old enough that their permanent feathers are coming in but young enough that they still have stubby little wings. They were just nestled in the grass sunning themselves - until they realized we'd stopped to look at them! Then they all sprang up and raced towards us. Humans + stopping = food, in most circumstances.
Further down we saw a coot's nest in a boat with four of the littlest little cootlings, they had to be about the size of a peach. It will be a few weeks before they'll be big enough to make it over the edge of the boat and into the water, that's for sure! But there's some rain water collected in a little shelf at the back of the boat, their own private swimming pool.
Even further down we saw another nest in a boat, with even tinier little cootlings, so small they couldn't even step over the twigs that made up their nest. I'm going to take my camera out later tonight and see if I can get pictures of all of these.
