Board Game
A week ago Sunday I did my last long run before CIM . Afterward, I looked at the little map the run created in my Garmin Forerunner 205 and then I looked at the photos I took along the way, and it struck me that the whole thing was like some geography-based board game that takes the runner-player through many hazards in assorted different lands. It had rained the night before, so the first part of the game-board road map, the Bay Trail heading south from Berkeley, was lined with puddles. On the way back from Emeryville, not so m uch. I headed back to Berkeley, where the next segment of the game map had me dropping by the house to pick up the insoles for my running shoes. I had run seven miles before I realized I had inexplicably left them lying on top of the dryer. By the time I went through the front door, I was at mile 12. Surprisingly, I felt no ill effects then, or even the day after, from having run without that extra padding under my feet. Maybe the new less-is-more-in-the-