Fall for Real

Today was a great Fall day. The morning crispness of the Rocky air never seemed to dissipate but neither did the sun. After an hour of reading and another hour of Rosetta Stone Spanish lessons on my laptop I was adequately prepared for a CrossFit staple. I completed "Nicole" (which is 20 minutes of continuous rounds of 5 pull-ups, 10 push-ups and 15 air squats) I completed 12 and change. It was the first time that I had competed a CrossFit workout on the outdoor fitness equipment scattered through City Park. It took a little bit longer than usual to get into an aggressive mood where I felt in a zone. Perhaps because there was a table of quasi-crunchies debriefing their game of Ultimate frisbee at a picnic table just behind me.

I returned home after observing a father teaching his son and 4 of his friends how to run a post pattern on an open field. I was impressed with how the kids didn't need to be pestered to pay attention most likely because there were just enough of them that there wasn't much uninvolved waiting and the kids were the ones playing. The father spoke to them, showed them, and then let them do it over and over again and they seemed to be learning from each other mimicking the most athletic and graceful of the boys. There were a few games of soccer and frisbee played by adults on the short walk back home.

I made a great lunch and then did some studying for an upcoming mid-term in Research Methods of Sport and Exercise Science, until the daylight hours seemed to be wasting away and my roommate Karen and I rode our bikes into town for some window shopping and a very tasty apple pie coffee ( which was remarkable, but I noted to the "Baristas" that the only thing which could have made it better was some graham cracker crummble stuck to the lip of the mug...mmmmm) Anyways, we took a bunch of pictures along Mountain Ave. the bike friendly street that has several eccentric houses and historic buildings.

All in all this day captured the essence of Fall even now as I head to sleep I feel peaceful and small knowing the Fall is here, Winter is soon to follow and the natural order remains and another year will come and go. Although I feel particularly inadequate in the world right now it still feels like its spinning slow enough to appreciate it.


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