20km today. Light mist and fog during the mid afternoon run. Failry good pace, nice mindfulness, very limited unwholesome thoughts. Some ego thought. I thought I was running faster than I was. But, analysis would tell anyone that the last 7k is predominantly uphill on this course and as a result, that always affects over all time. If you can't let go of time.
But,... Kyiv was rockin' today. The first part of the run was fairly uneventful and in and out of very relaxed running. After running up Volodymyrski Descent I turned right on to Khryshchatek which is closed at this time of day on Saturday and Sunday. I heard noise, I will politely refer to it as music. As I got to the closed part of the street I saw the stage, stages on Khyrshchatek are nothing new, "music" on them is also nothing new, a bit of compassion for the bad weather but weaving in and out of a sparse crowd while running was a nice trade off. Kept on running. Nice box football (soccer) match right down the street with a few fans, no indication as to the score. One of the players fell to the road (pitch) I'm sure that will leave a mark.
Turned right on the Shevchenko and up that hill, but to the left was the Lenin statue and my friends from the communist part of Ukraine, they seem to be playing music from WW II, I guess it is the music that they identify with, I'm sure it was a wonderful time to remember. There crowd was smaller than the concert crowd but not by much. The WWII music stayed with me for another 1/2 mile until I started to run in to the police everywhere. I looked up the hill and saw that the road was diverted from Volodmyrska St. (not descent), but in front of me were about 100 riot police. This can't be good. But they were in classic riot police position, two lines, relaxed, waiting to be told what to do, they were there for the 'what if' scenario' but why?
Up the hill some more to Voldomyrska and now you have the answer, the Svoboda crowd fired up and in full rock and roll mode with screaming angry white males all over the place. To say my pace quickened is an understatement.
Ran it on home, had some nuts, salmon and salad and considered a rainy Sunday in Kyiv.
Added the next day: I saw the results of a wonderful accident about 14km in to the run. a car turning right turned to the far lane, a car trying to turn left on to the road of the car turning right tried to simultaneously cut the corner by about 50 m. Of course the two of them ran head long in to each other. It was really ridiculous looking, the cars were in the middle of the two lanes of a four lane road and managed to hit each other head on, absolutely head on, it was like they saw each other and deliberately tried to hit each other head on. You can't make this stuff up in Kyiv. You just can't get Kafka out of your life.
But,... Kyiv was rockin' today. The first part of the run was fairly uneventful and in and out of very relaxed running. After running up Volodymyrski Descent I turned right on to Khryshchatek which is closed at this time of day on Saturday and Sunday. I heard noise, I will politely refer to it as music. As I got to the closed part of the street I saw the stage, stages on Khyrshchatek are nothing new, "music" on them is also nothing new, a bit of compassion for the bad weather but weaving in and out of a sparse crowd while running was a nice trade off. Kept on running. Nice box football (soccer) match right down the street with a few fans, no indication as to the score. One of the players fell to the road (pitch) I'm sure that will leave a mark.
Turned right on the Shevchenko and up that hill, but to the left was the Lenin statue and my friends from the communist part of Ukraine, they seem to be playing music from WW II, I guess it is the music that they identify with, I'm sure it was a wonderful time to remember. There crowd was smaller than the concert crowd but not by much. The WWII music stayed with me for another 1/2 mile until I started to run in to the police everywhere. I looked up the hill and saw that the road was diverted from Volodmyrska St. (not descent), but in front of me were about 100 riot police. This can't be good. But they were in classic riot police position, two lines, relaxed, waiting to be told what to do, they were there for the 'what if' scenario' but why?
Up the hill some more to Voldomyrska and now you have the answer, the Svoboda crowd fired up and in full rock and roll mode with screaming angry white males all over the place. To say my pace quickened is an understatement.
Ran it on home, had some nuts, salmon and salad and considered a rainy Sunday in Kyiv.
Added the next day: I saw the results of a wonderful accident about 14km in to the run. a car turning right turned to the far lane, a car trying to turn left on to the road of the car turning right tried to simultaneously cut the corner by about 50 m. Of course the two of them ran head long in to each other. It was really ridiculous looking, the cars were in the middle of the two lanes of a four lane road and managed to hit each other head on, absolutely head on, it was like they saw each other and deliberately tried to hit each other head on. You can't make this stuff up in Kyiv. You just can't get Kafka out of your life.
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