Ridge Road Loop/Fort Roots

I ran and walked the Ridge Road Loop this morning for the first time since Oct. 16 last year, and now am seated on my front porch in a 67-degree light breeze with the smell and colors of fall all around and Jo licking the sweat off my left leg. I covered the loop, with 25 minutes of walking, in 48:10, with splits of 12:39, 12:35, 11:42, and 11:13.

John Kelly and I played Fort Roots, beginning at about 3:15 p.m. Central. I won 46-63. I had 2 pars, 4 bogies, 2 doubles, and 1 triple. John had 2 pars, 1 double, 2 triples, 2 quadruples, 1 pentagonal, and 1 heptagonal.

Orange Street Loop

It was 48 degrees, which felt good on this late-night run of the Orange Street Loop, completed in 27:54, with splits of 9:24, 9:18, and 9:12.

Ghetto Cat Loop/First Tee

I like the Ghetto Cat Loop. It has some stretches that I have rarely run or walked in my nearly 23-year Levy experience—offers lots of new poor people a chance to look oddly at me and wonder whether I'm a cop. Unfortunately, I haven't seen the Jo-like black cat again. I walked the loop this morning at about 8 a.m. Central.

One thing about my golf game has remained unchanged; three consecutive days is too many. I played a total of 13 holes with Jeff Krupsaw, and won the Levy-Broadmoor Cup by three strokes with a 45. Then we played the first four holes again. Overall, I had 4 pars, 5 bogies, and 4 doubles. As the final hole of the day, we played No. 4, the long motherfucker, for a $10 million gift card from Walmart. I hit a mediocre drive, and then a 200-yard five-wood to the left fringe, three inches off the green, 40 feet away, and three putted from there for bogie. Krupsaw doubled, after spending the length of the fairway wondering how long it would take Jill to get used to a wardrobe limited to Walmart clothing and whether we could buy big-ticket items and resell them to friends for the sake of pocket dough.

OVERHEARD

"Technology can't help that swing."

— Johnny Miller on NBC's live coverage of the Levy-Broadmoor Cup

Fort Roots/35th Street Loop

This was a very good, post-golf run. I jogged and walked, for a total of four minutes, the 35th Street Loop in 44:22, with splits of 11:26, 11:00, 10:51, and 11:05.

I began that run about 45 minutes after completing 18 holes, played at Fort Roots in 93, with nines of 47 and 46. I had 1 birdie, 2 pars, 8 bogies, 5 doubles, and 2 triples. I used 33 putts.

Levy Loop/Fort Roots

This morning at about 7 a.m. Central I jogged and walked the Levy Loop in 22:40.

Again, as David Duval said, "I'm close. I know I've been saying it a long time and no one's believed me, but I've been so close." Today, starting at about 2:30 p.m., in 70-degree sunshine, I played Fort Roots with Del, the only guy I really liked among the old men I played with the summer of 2008, in 46, with 2 pars, 4 bogies, 2 doubles, and 1 triple. I used 17 putts. I hit a ball over the wall on the par-5 No. 7, my only lost ball and the only bad drive I hit, which led to the triple.

Now I plan to cook bratwurst and French fries and feed myself and Tim Cooper as we watch Benton's Cliff Lee win a 1-0 victory for the Phillies over North Little Rock's A.J. Burnett.

Hash

I ran pretty much non-stop for 56:09 on a Hash run set all over Levy and Park Hill from the Ewbank's rent house to John Kelly's to cover well over four miles.

Orange Street Loop

I ran the Orange Street Loop in 30:42, with splits of 10:27, 10:14, and 10:01.