half marathon training has begun

It's a really nice day today if you like humidity. Right now it's 83 with 71% humidity. Goody.

Lydia is doing home-stuff this weekend so she didn't come. I didn't even invite her. She loves mowing the lawn so much that I feared she would choose walking over mowing!

Bonnie arrived at 7 and I was still doing the wash. Need to work on my timing. The last load was on the line and we hit the asphalt by 7:10.

First stop Bob & MLs house to deliver the paper. Then we headed up to the hospital, out Ostrum across and under the Hill to Hill Bridge. We encountered the food graffiti on the 2nd Ave. ramp.  We continued up Center, then out Church and up to Broad where we stopped at the post office. It's not busy at 8:10 on a Saturday!

Then it was off to the Mini Trail bridge. I took a glance over the side and noticed the old graffiti on the stairway was painted over, and replaced by some new, mostly not vulgar (so far) stuff. 

The old stuff was pretty awful, but the new stuff was a little interesting. We headed down the stairs, and back up again. I took pictures.

Now this creature I liked. They even painted the banister.

 Clearly this person is not electronically connected with his friends! His message will last for decades

 He's fun. Looks a little like my doodles.

After crossing the bridge, we headed toward the casino, walked thru the Steel, and encounter much needed sprinklers at ArtsQuest. We headed up Polk, and walked the Greenway. This beautiful set of stairs leads to Touchstone theatre. Yes, we climbed them.

Then we stopped at a diner on 4th street for breakfast, headed up and thru the university, up Wyandotte and back to my house.

Tomorrow is another 6 miles on the Ironton Rail-Trail.