I’m not gonna lie: I am ready for some flat road! Only problem is my neighborhood (and the surrounding area) has very little flat. The places I visited this week had very little flat, too. These legs got a workout this week, which is good, because I didn’t manage to squeeze in much strength training. 
Joining Kim @ Kimrunsonthefly and Deborah @ Confessionsofamotherrunner, and trying to “train” a little harder for my 10k at the end of the month.
Workouts update
- Monday: Hiking/Walking around Olana
- Tuesday: Dogwalk, 3 miles easy
- Wednesday: Dogwalk, Yoga (15 min)
- Thursday: Dogwalk, 3ish TM miles, Yoga (20 min)
- Friday: Hiking/Walking around Hudson Crossing Park & Schuyler House
- Saturday: 8 mile LSD, Yoga (20 min)
- Sunday: Walking with a friend, Walking + Toning & Yoga later?
Mileage: 14 (+2)
JY = Jasyoga
PB = Killer B
TM = Treadmill
YFR = Yoga for Runners*
WU = warmup
CD = cooldown
SB = Stationary Bike
YFPR = Yoga for Pain Relief
YTU = Yoga Tune Up Lower Body*
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Running Update
Tuesday intention: easy recovery run
I went out pretty late for the first time in a really long time. It was cool, but very humid. Cloudy, although the sun kept trying to peek out. I worried it might be a “bad” run due to the humidity, and while it certainly wasn’t my favorite weather, it was fine.
Thursday intention: intervals aka a little speed work
Not a lot of speed work, but I chose an intervals run hoping to get a little speed work. I kind of did my own thing. The walk breaks were longer than I wanted, so I just kept running a bit longer (it was a beginner intervals Peloton workout). I was definitely dropping sweat all over the treadmill!
Saturday intention: “easy” long run practicing on hills
What a gorgeous day to run! I also appreciated being able to get out there later due to lower temps and humidity. The run was on a the slow side, but there was #allthehhills and more walking yesterday than I would normally do before a long run. Wish I could’ve gotten in 4 runs this week, but it was busy. With cat sitting for a friend next week, I don’t see it happening next week either!
Good thing I’m not really training for anything
Favorites of the week
It was a twofer this week in the short day trips: first up was Olana Historic Site, home of the painter Frederic March. I had visited it with my family decades ago. I stopped on the way to visit my mom (it’s almost perfectly halfway there). I wish I had had more time to explore, but it helped me to have more time walking/hiking despite the 3 hour round trip car ride. And yes, lots of hills.
Friday Mr. Judy and I (and the dogs, of course) headed up to Hudson Crossing Park, a park I’d long wanted to visit. It was again beautiful weather to explore.
I watched half of Hamilton on the way up on my phone (I’d downloaded it), as it was our last day for Disney+ and we were going into Hamilton country.
After the park we stopped at Schuyler House. It was Philip Schuyler’s country home, where Eliza Hamilton grew up. Such a beautiful property. I tried to imagine it with no roads or other buildings around it (even though present day Schuylerville is a small town).
Meeting the friend I’m cat sitting for next week, catching up, & scenes from our walk around her neighborhood.
What sort of history surrounds where you live?
Have you noticed any leaves changing yet?
What was the highlight of your week?
ICYMI: A short meditation to help you move into the present when you’re feeling fearful. Watch it here.
Coming up on Tuesday: The ABCs of motivation. I hope you find something to motivate you! On Friday I’ve got a fun, short post. Yup, you’ll have to come back Friday to see what it is!
Chocolaterunsjudy 
I noticed a load of leaves falling yesterday when out running and my maple is starting to change … We have a fair amount of local history here and Tolkien sites a few miles away. And where I live is higher than the surroundings, so it’s ALWAYS a hill to get home …
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Oooh! Tolkien! I’m a big fan. 🙂
Our maple is one of the last on the block to turn. The tree I showed is several blocks away, and the first one to turn (obviously).
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He lived in Moseley, which is not far from me, and the mill I run by regularly and which I did that virtual race for is his mill in the books, plus the whole area is the Shire. I can get to where I can see both Towers easily enough and Mordor is the Black Country, 10 or so miles away.
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That would be totally cool to me! I started with the Hobbit like when I was about 12. Read & reread it & then the Lord of the Rings so many times when I was a kid. Back when there was no Kindle . . .
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Oh and I just sent you a FB friend request as I do photograph the mill and the Shire fairly regularly and thought you might like to see!
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wow your trees are already starting to turn colors! I love that photo of you under the tree. I think hill running back in March and April was what aggravated my hips to begin with this time. But who knows!
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Remember we’re only about 3 hours or so away from Canada!
I don’t have a lot of choice on the hills. Now that it’s getting cooler, though, I may try the park. It’s not very shady, which is why I didn’t feel like running there in the Summer.
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Thanks for sharing your photos of the beautiful flowers! Those photos always make me smile 🙂 Our trees here aren’t turning colors yet but I can’t wait until they do because they are always so pretty.
Kudos to you for tackling so much hill running lately. I usually stick to fear roads when I can because inclines tend to aggravate my old ITB injury, but I know that running hills is great for endurance so I really should do it more often.
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I don’t have much choice on the hills. After I do this 10k, I’m going to take a short break from running. Unless the weather is really nice, you never know . . .
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Gotta laugh (and sympathize) with you on the hills. Yesterday’s ride was probably hillier than ideal, given my conditions, but it went well overall. My quads could really feel it afterwards. Your pics are so pretty!
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Thanks Kim! Hills aren’t really hard to find here. The flat bike paths are still often just too crowded for my taste. As it gets cooler, though, I should have some more options — that & the fact the bugs are disappearing have helped a lot!
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Looks like a beautiful weeek for you! It is mostly flat here–which I appreciate after running all those hills in my trail runs! I am starting to see signs of fall. Not sure how i feel about that!
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I’m ok with the signs of Fall. You just have to take each season as it comes. Winter will come whether we want it to or not, and I do love Fall. 🙂
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Have you toured the Schuyler Mansion in Albany?
I prefer the flat of course. And run most in the bike paths as you know.
The highlight of the week is always my time running and walking with friends. And today. The weather is perfect on the lake and the water still warm enough to swim.
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No, I haven’t toured Schuyler Mansion in Albany. As I said, in general that sort of thing doesn’t interest me a whole lot. Did you know about the Eliza Hamilton scavenger hunt? That’s one of the stops.
I’m surprised the water was still warm enough to swim — lucky you!
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No I didn’t. I’ll have to look into it. I visited the Schuyler Sisters exhibit. I’m a Hamilton junkie I guess.
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Very pretty scenery this week! It is pretty flat where I live. You have to purposely seek out hills! We are kind of cat sitting too… we have a pair of “kittens” that we are fostering! We just picked them up and they are really skittish. They are also older kittens (4 1/2 months) so they really need to get friendly so they can get adopted. We have our work cut out for us!
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Fostering kittens would be so much fun! Except I’d worry about the dogs (although we’d have to confine them to a room anyway). I’m actually going to my friend’s home every morning for a few days.
4 1/2 months isn’t so bad. I used to volunteer at my friend’s really small rescue — she more than once socialized feral cats!
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We have lots of hills here, but I usually stay in a relatively flat area close to home. I always say I need to do hills more but I tend to avoid them.
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Since I’ve been running in my neighborhood, I just have no choice. I have a 1.5 mile loop that’s relatively flat, but the rest is hilly. Very hilly! Oh well, whatever doesn’t kill you makes you stronger, right?
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I am ready for cooler weather but not fall colors! How need to visit the Schulyer place. I didn’t cancel Disney+ so we gave them even more $$ to watch Mulan this weekend. Not a bad way to spend time on Labor Day weekend. 😉
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I love the Fall colors. Didn’t miss them when I lived in TX, but it’s still so pretty.
I just couldn’t justify the $$ for Mulan, even though I’d like to see it. You’ll have to tell me if it was worth it! We kept Disney+ for 2 months so I could watch Hamilton multiple times, LOL!
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Hamilton country. I love that phrasing. Rockland had a lot of Revolutionary War sites that are still extant. Manhattan, as you know, is more “history happened here” but many of the spots are gone. Fraunces Tavern is a cool reconstruction. I want to get out to Green-Wood one of these days. Love the fall colors. We have some leaves down here but ot really changing
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I looked up who had the most battles in the Revolutionary war, because yeah, I’m not the history nerd my brother is — NY & NJ are right up there on the top! Who knew?
I think NYC is actually even more Hamilton country than upstate, but hey, this is where I live & we do have Hamilton & Washington counties here.
Further north you go the sooner leaves change. Remember, I almost lived in Canada long ago (VT).
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We were where it happened, but many of the locations are gone.
There was a great exhibit at NY HIstorical a few years ago, and this was a great way to build young audience: https://www.nyhistory.org/revsummer
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Sometimes I do wished it was a little more hillier where I live. Chicago is flat so it is hard to do hill workouts here.
I’ve noticed a few trees have different color leaves. It looks so pretty!!
Lots of history here too in Chicago. 🙂
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Definitely so much history in Chicago!
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Yep! Colors are most definitely changing here too. I feel like they won’t be as pretty in October if they’re changing now. Like Wendy said, it’s very flat here, however my trails are not. I do enjoy the climbs on them.
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We’re the gateway to the Adirondacks . . . even the rail trails aren’t really flat (although they’re pretty flat). But I’m not running there now.
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I love the Hamilton road trip! So fun. What beautiful pictures!
Minneapolis is generally pretty flat, but there are more hills on the lake paths than you’d expect!
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I would probably forgive the hills in order to run by a lake. Running by water is always my jam!
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No escaping the hills around my neighborhood either – ah well, built-in strength training, right?
Lovely pictures of Hamilton country!
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Yup, the hills definitely make us stronger. I want some flat occasionally though!
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What beautiful places to explore! If you could send me some of your hills, I would send you some of our flat. Because all we have is flat, flat, flat!
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Haha, that’s an exchange I could get into! I guess I’m lucky I have the hills since the incline isn’t working on my treadmill.
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How fabulous that you got to check out the Schuyler estate!
So, I live in the oldest city in the country. We are surrounded by so many cool things. We had lunch at the Fountain of Youth on Saturday, as a matter of fact. Our city has so many forts and historical buildings and even streets. We also have the lighthouse and the oldest jail and schoolhouse. It’s pretty cool.
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I have been to the Fountain of Youth! Many decades ago as a kid. And I love a lighthouse. 🙂
Sounds like a great area to grow up!
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To answer your question about the flower sizes, those are two different varieties of Hostas and one grows much larger than the other variety.
Your visit to Hudson Crossing Park sounds lovely. Living in the DC area, we have lots of history surrounding us from the DC history to the civil war battlefields that are all around us in Virginia.
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I do realize there were 2 different hostas in that photo, but I have also seen significant differences with the same type planted around one tree.
DC has oodles of history! I used to love to walk around it with no particular place in mind when I lived in MD (which is 30+ years ago).
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