Miles for the week: ~17 (3.4/4.1/3.5/~6)
Average resting heart rate per Fitbit: 60 (gave blood)
Weight: 116
CityStrides coverage of Northampton: 36%
Long run: ~6 miles; avg HR 135; time 1:18; dead phone so don’t know splits
Pretty good heart rate for having giving blood on Tuesday, which usually knocks it out of me for a while. Even my Thursday run wasn’t too bad (average HR 150). Since my phone was dead I didn’t bother to think about new streets, but I added a garden: Frankie’s Garden, a small bed next to the courthouse. And I took a relaxed walk through the community gardens, got buzzed by a mockingbird (which I was able to identify for a gardener who said she saw them frequently but couldn’t describe them well enough for her birder friends to recognize), and got a glimpse of a house wren after hearing it sing. My mnemonic for them is Neddie Seagoon going “whatwhatwhatwhatwhat?”, but having just been listening to this Owl City song, that’s what I thought of (hear the real bird at 00:10):
Rudbeckia and rose of Sharon (Hibiscus syriacus) in full bloom, plus butterfly weed (Asclepias tuberosa) which I do see wild along the bike path in Easthampton, but mostly in people’s gardens and in Pulaski Park now that they’ve landscaped it with native plants. It’s so beautiful!