Are the salmon in the river yet?

Two days of solid rain this last week brought the flow of the milwaukee river from 200 to 1350 cu ft per second. The kings have been shouldering up at the harbour waiting for the mad rush upstream. All that turbulent runoff probably brought a few up to the Kletzsch Park Dam.

I've been doing some running recently on the cross-country ski trails at Lapham Peak. Trying to do "interval training" by running uphill with ski poles, in time with the ski poles. Since the human heart is built for a bipedal frame, we are generally not accustomed to running all four limbs at the same time, like quadrupeds. The running, therefore, goes that much slower as you are pushing that much more blood to that much more muscle. What a workout though! Running up a single track with ski poles gets the heart up into zone 5 with ease. Keeping it in that zone for several minutes at a time over the course. The leaves were starting to change. That eery late summer dry has given way to an early wet mouldering fallish kind of day.

Made a resolution, or rather, experienced a kind of polar reversal recently. And for that I am grateful.