It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood, a beautiful day for a neighbor...won't you be mine? Running in the city where Mr. Rogers was filmed, I have to say, today was a great day compared to the many that have been in the recent past. Although I ran on the TM (yuck!), it was a wonderful run...not because I bested by previous injured record on the TM's 5k program by 2 minutes (ha ha), but because I had a minuscule amount of pain in my achilles during or afterward! I did walk about the 3.9k mark for a minute and took the final 4% incline hill slower to minimize the chances of doing any damage, but I'm very happy with the workout. It's 33 days until my Half I was hoping to be well enough to run, so that should be enough time to build up the mileage again to where I may be able to meet my previous (and only) PR on that course...at least that's the plan! To celebrate my run, and to give a shout-out to Mr. Rogers (may he rest in peace), here's a couple of photos from when our family went to the TV station, WQED, to view the setup of Mr. Rogers Neighborhood in the original recording studio, the last time it would ever be displayed again before being retired forever. The dinosaur sits outside WQED year-round. During this last snow storm, I drove by the dino probably 10 times over the course of the week and it was generally cleared of snow - I watched 3 university students brush snow off it as they walked by on their way to campus. They may be walking through a foot of snow on the uncleared sidewalk, but the dino was always cleared of snow. A tribute to the wonderful man Mr. Rogers is and how even those growing up long after the taping of his show ended still know and love him. Enough of my long-winded tribute. Here are the pics. Sorry for the poor quality - cell phone camera. Pretty sad when you forget the real camera, but it's made even worse when you get to stand in line for 4 hrs listening to your wife tell you how it would have been nice to have a decent camera to take pictures. Sigh...Oh well, It's good in the hood!
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