Training Log Archive: TomN

Back from niece Phoebe's wedding in Indianapolis, an intentional timeout from running. Now a restart on the usual Drumm Loop. Ankles felt ok, but that wasn't the case yesterday. Also, not much complaining from the glute injury side, but still non-zero. I don't feel like I'll ever get normal again. Still, a respectable workout.

My Garmin 405 got into the wash a couple of weeks ago (it was still in my pocket after Pawtuckaway) and appears to have survived the submersion and subsequent drying. Didn't expect that.

I took Florence and my parents and my brother and his wife to Columbus, Indiana, to look at the architecture. I first saw it during the Flying Pig this past April. Addie and I were staying in a hotel near Columbus and looking for something to do. Google searches kept coming up with "First Christian Church." What's up with all this churchiness? Well, it turns out, that church was designed by Eliel Saarinen, and the library across from it was by I.M. Pei, and the sculpture in the plaza between them by Henry Moore, and the middle school down the street by Gunnar Birkerts, and four buildings on a nearby corner by Kevin Roche (four!), and there are 50 more buildings in Columbus designed by major architects in the modernist style, and incidental commissioned sculptures, including an operating Tinguely. I'm so happy to have seen, and revisited, the First Christian Church, which I think is the most extraordinary building I've ever encountered. This time we got a tour of the inside from a friendlly employee acting as docent. Take a trip next time the Pig is held in the vicinity, it's an astonishing town. And then explain to me, if you can, how all this extraordinary architecture came to be, because the official story leaves something to be desired.