When Running Low on Fuel...

Apart from the weather, a nice environment provides great inspiration for the runner, walker, biker, thinker, sleeper, and dreamer in all of us. During my short run today, I went by our prairie path and looked at the board describing the efforts by the City to restore the path to the Midwest prairie habitat. Naperville is a very conservative, grass is green type of city, and in the past has not taken kindly to efforts at being eco-friendly. The climate, political and popular, is changing slowly, and now the City is taking more steps towards a greener, cleaner environment. Running through areas where there are a lot of varieties of birds and plants is always rejuvenating. When one is tired and running low on fuel, even a slow saunder through these areas is food for the body. Just walking through the Redwoods in California, climbing the hills in Los Gatos or Los Altos, or walking idly by the beach in La Jolla is quite fulfilling and leaves one sated.