Day 12
Service Saturday
Today’s soapbox: too often service becomes a means to an end. We chase silver chord hours and seek to fill out resumes for colleges. And the people we are serving a prop to help us get what we want — and not the other way around.
If service was a romantic relationship, we spend to much time on the grand gestures — the bouquets of roses, the candlelit dinners — and not enough on the brick and mortar that sustains a relationship.
“That service is noblest which is rendered for its own sake.”
On to the run! The final addition of our Threshold without Thousands week: long run with a build. We head out through Hickory Hill and St. Joe’s to Prairie du Chien pointed in the way of Bait Shop. Dropping down into the Rapid Creek drainage, one of my favorite vistas emerges from round the bend.
We reverse tracks and the Creek and climb back toward the highway viaduct. The sun ducks behind clouds and the sky becomes steely. Coming back through Hickory a poodle-chased deer pogoes across the trail 20m in front of us.
From the bottom of the hill we build back to school finishing out on the track. The sun has emerged and the the oval is burnished white interspersed with blue shadow.
Brownie wins the award for best foot-wiping in the weight room. The donuts are gone but there are bagels (and plenty of cream cheese) left by the time we finish.
One more week of training before we let slip the dogs.
Total miles = 8
Week total ~ 32
