Chandler Street Loop

I walked the Chandler Street Loop this morning in 48:21. I got in just before it started raining.

This evening I jogged for about forty-seven seconds of the 55:33 I was out with the Humping Hash. We started and finished at the White Water Tavern, not far from Pizza d'Action. I guess I covered three and a half miles or so.

Do you remember the railroad tracks that ran between my house and Taco Bell? They ran from right around The Forge to I'm not sure how far away. Miles I guess. Surely. ...well, fuck, let me see if I can Google Earth them. ...OK, I gave up when I got to Jacksonville, where they have long since been pulled up. In fact, there are buildings there built across their old path. Anyway, someone started pulling them up through Levy last fall (by the way, I'm not sure how long it's been since trains used them, but not since at least Feb. 3, 1987, the day before I moved to Levy). I noticed this morning as I walked the Chandler Street Loop that they're beginning to pull them out of the streets and repave where they were. Also, someone's started leveling the dirt and gravel that accompanied them. They look like they'd make a perfect trail. From here they go right past the North Little Rock YMCA. You know the one I'm talking about, between my house and where ya'll lived? I'm probably daydreaming, but, man, it would be wonderful if they paved them for joggers and bikers. Maybe I should call Mayor Hayes.

OVERHEARD
"He impressed me. He was disciplined; he was compoised."
—ESPN football analyst Merle Hodge, on Cleveland Browns quarterback Colt McCoy