{"id":4356,"date":"2016-08-07T14:43:56","date_gmt":"2016-08-07T18:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.runkevinrun.com\/?p=4356"},"modified":"2016-08-07T14:43:56","modified_gmt":"2016-08-07T18:43:56","slug":"falling-soles-and-fallen-souls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/?p=4356","title":{"rendered":"Falling Soles and Fallen Souls"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was, as I\u2019m perhaps overly wont to do, thinking about Britney Spears. This morning was my last few miles running in Santa Fe and I was on what had become my \u201cregular\u201d route. With a fully charged iPod, I was sort of on autopilot. I was enjoying an admittedly slow \u201cvictory lap\u201d off the bike path and onto Camino Carlos Rey and a slow, downbeat ballad was playing. While I love Bruce Springsteen\u2019s melancholic working class stories, I couldn\u2019t help but think how I needed an uptempo number to help propel me to a slightly faster pace. My wearied legs and achy, old bones needed some pep\u2026 and while the fever can sometimes only be cured by more cowbell, in this instance my mind wandered to the forthcoming Britney Spears album.<\/p>\n

Brit-Brit, as she used to be called back in the day by fans in the know, recently announced \u201cGlory\u201d would be dropping at the end of August. As I made the turn off the bike path, I was debating whether I should pre-order it off of iTunes or buy the CD on Amazon. I also found my mind forever voyaging to my pace and as I was multitasking, pondering the great mysteries of where to spend my Britney money and why I was so slow in my running, my foot caught on the landscaped rock pathway of the sidewalk. My arms flailed and my ill-formed core tumbled forward. Humans are like an inverted pendulum and so it\u2019s a wonder we don\u2019t stumble and fall more often. What was milliseconds felt like a lifetime, my heart pounding as I attempted to recover. As I windmilled and attempted to flap my arms to somehow create a windcurrent and force a cushion of air to lift me back upright, my thoughts once again turned to Britney \u2013 would my final thoughts before hitting the rocky ground and no doubt scraping the hell out of my body really be of the Princess of Pop?<\/p>\n

And yet in the milliseconds we have to recover, somehow I did right myself. I don\u2019t know how\u2026 I never know what precisely makes the difference between righting a fall and falling face first into the gravelly pit.<\/p>\n

My heart pounding, I slowed ever so slightly to take a moment to consider the near-miss. There was no soft ground around that I could\u2019ve aimed for even if I had been thinking to do so in crash to the earth. Rocks and gravel and asphalt were the only surfaces around. Speaking from a wealth of running fall related injuries, I knew my palms and knees would\u2019ve been bloodied, my torso torn up, and potentially I would\u2019ve had some trouble running for the next few days or weeks depending on the severity of the scrapes and bruises. But for whatever reason and by whatever stroke of luck, I avoided that fate and just kept moving forward\u2026 albeit with a heightened hyper-vigilance for obstacles along the roadway.<\/p>\n

And thus thoughts turned from Britney to Mozart\u2019s \u201cDon Giovanni.\u201d This was the fourth and final opera Steve and I caught here in Santa Fe.<\/p>\n

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Don Juan (SPOILER ALERT) gets sucked into hell at the opera\u2019s end, a punishment for\u2026 well\u2026 maybe a lot of things and maybe nothing at all. He\u2019s a lothario, a ladies\u2019 man whether the lady wants to be woo\u2019d or not, and so there\u2019s creepy rape implications, a few murders of distraught cockolded husbands and fiances, and a general libertine attitude that threatens the moral superiority of the current social order. What I think he\u2019s really punished for is not \u201crepenting\u201d his ways as his sidekick Leporello encourages and as the ghost of the murdered Commendatore demands. But what does repenting mean, really?<\/p>\n

Just as I don\u2019t know how I recovered from my fall this morning, I\u2019m not sure I know what Don Giovanni could have done to repent to the satisfaction of the masses in the opera\u2019s world. To be honest, the guy died as he lived. He was who he was. Perhaps that\u2019s why he is punished.<\/p>\n

Taking my final mile on Cerrillos Road, I reflected back on this week\u2019s adventures. There\u2019s a longer piece to be written on how lucky I was to spend some time with my big brother, luckier even than not falling flat on my face this morning.\u00a0 I may eventually get to that but in the meantime, we’ve checked out of the hotel and are headed to lunch.<\/p>\n

Steve and I are grabbing a Santa Fe Bite green chile cheeseburger before hitting the road to Tucson.<\/p>\n

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Oops, I did it again… I ate another burger. \u00a0It’s not breaking my heart.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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