Its Times Like These........

In preparation for my upcoming weekend footrace, I promised myself that I would get out and run... Even if I was 1000 miles from home.

Sunday..... too many delays
Monday..... I really needed a nap instead. I had only 4 hours sleep the night before.
Tuesday...... Yep, I did manage to get an hour jog/walk. But I am getting ahead of myself.

BACK UP

I promise I will try to make this short.

Tuesday afternoon as I finished up my delivery in Plymouth Mass, I made a judgement call to not attempt the rush hour drive thru Boston to get to my final stop. I mean really! I can't unload until Wednesday morning anyway. After getting unloaded, I ask the Customer where I could leave my Truck, as I intended to go for a little run.

Well, he had an even better idea!

"Why don't you take my pick-up and go to the waterfront.. You will really enjoy running there, instead of around here.. And we do have that shower in the ladies room, so you can freshen up when you get done!"

Shweeeeeeet

I move the Big Truck out of the way and change into my running attire. Complete with camera, mp3 player, and directions , I take off.

He forgot to tell me where I was going, but did draw a nice map... So much to my surprise, the waterfront he had spoke of, was the waterfront made Famous all those years ago by THAT boat that landed on THAT rock.

While I did not attempt the exercise portion of this program, I did get quite a few pictures as I walked up and down the street... Ever so much looking like the Tourist!!







Here is where I was going to run...

And here is a replica of THAT vessel......

That landed on this shore.....

And hit this ROCK....

I swear, I have been sooooo disillusioned for many years!! I thought The Landing At Plymouth Rock, was ..... well........ Like the boat actually landed on this massive iceberg size rock.


But no, here it "supposedly" is. A boulder the size of beanbag chair....


not to start fussing....

And this little causeway was just awesome to walk across. It stretched out about 1/4 mile into the bay....

So there you have it... The reason why I did not go running on Tuesday.. However, I did manage later in the evening to get in about 45 minutes of exercise while I was in Salem, but the sun set fairly rapidly.... And my batteries in the camera died.. I will have to take some photos of the waterfront there too and post them!! It makes it soo much nicer when you have an awesome landscape to run thru.

See what I mean about no matter how mad I want to get, something always comes along to brighten my day.