last night after my run (almost 6 miles total, which went well after running two slow miles to let my legs warm up, thus proving the fact that i run much, much better when it’s nice and cool outside than when it’s sticky) i watched the o.c. you know, my new tv indulgence. anyway. the quick summary is that there’s this 16-year-old kid, ryan, who was from a ratty area of los angeles but got taken in by a rich family from newport beach. last night it was thanksgiving on the show, and ryan got a call from his brother, who’s in jail, so he drove back to chino to see him and take care of some shady business.
anyway, my point being that they shot all the chino/seedy l.a. scenes with this over-contrasty, gritty filter on the cameras. i guess they were trying to illustrate the differences between chino and newport, but i think the grittiness of the shots was overdone. it was sort of distracting. every time the shot switched to ryan in chino, i wanted to fiddle with the dials on the tv to try to clear up the picture.
just an observation.
yeah, so as i already alluded to, my run went well last night. the weather was nicer than it has been the past two weeks, about 65 degrees with a light breeze. my lower legs went through their customary aches and pains, but after a very slow (like 12 minute pace) first two miles, they loosened up and i was able to run back at my more normal 10:30 pace. i ended up doing two laps on the trail, with the only real negative being that the battery in my mp3 player died about 20 minutes into the run. suck.
see, jsc has actually a pretty good running trail. it leaves from the rec center and goes through a locked gate onto site. for the first mile and a quarter, it goes through trees and past fields along the fence that separates the space center from the boulevard along the back. it comes out by the back entrance gate and goes all the way down the long road, past some of the industrial-looking building and to the water tower, at which point you turn to head past the child care center and back through a gate in the fence to the gilruth center. it’s 2.9 miles total, according to the map. i did two laps, so that’s 5.8 miles. woohoo. the best part is that there’s always something to watch or someone to see. last night i saw co-ops, astronauts, multiple deer, and a possum.
possums are ugly, ugly creatures.
