Picking up the Distance

Running six or seven miles for a couple of days after going run-free for a while is always tiring but invigorating. Along the road where two gas stations opposite each other symbolized the overbuilt suburbs now exists free space and a run/bike path. Change happens slowly but inexorably.

Toys, Kids, and Happy Meals

San Francisco bans Happy Meals - chicagotribune.com: "San Francisco's board of supervisors has voted, by a veto-proof margin, to ban most of McDonald's Happy Meals as they are now served in the restaurants.

The measure will make San Francisco the first major city in the country to forbid restaurants from offering a free toy with meals that contain more than set levels of calories, sugar and fat.

The ordinance would also require restaurants to provide fruits and vegetables with all meals for children that come with toys.

'We're part of a movement that is moving forward an agenda of food justice,' said Supervisor Eric Mar, who sponsored the measure."

Marathon in DC

While in DC for the Rally happened to run into a number of runners who were in the Marine Corps Marathon. One runner had also done the Vancouver marathon and described running in Stanley park rainy weather. Gave me inspiration to train for one more marathon.