16 days in I ran to Warfield (Jeallott's Park), and found myself on a number of roads that in busier times would be either very unpleasant or impossible to run on. These are the roads with no sidewalks, and with only soft shoulders upon which to run when traffic is passing by.
Today I just went straight down the middle of the road, for the most part. Close to half of today's run was either on Rambler's Routes or trails, but to get there the connecting roads are those narrow country paved lanes.
I will find other ways to get there when the traffic gets heavy again. What this time is allowing me to do is to explore in a more free way, and to make connections more creatively. It's quite a time to be alive when you can experience a kind of science fictional outcome in real time.
I'm thinking a bit here of Cormac McCarthy's The Road, but of course things are not nearly that bad. We have food, and the current lack of armed bandits on the roads is quite nice. I can relate to a recent story about how wildlife is making a comeback, how animals are poking their heads out again now that things have quietened down.
I feel like I'm poking my own head out of my hole and having a look around. The silence at times is stunning.
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