Up-to-Date Stats

Days to go: 162 (44%)

Miles completed: 683 (68%)

Miles to go: 318 (32%)

Miles required per day to meet goal: 1.96

Total time run to date (this year): 3 days, 11 hours, 25 minutes, 25 seconds

Average mile pace: 7 minutes, 19 seconds

Notes

From the turn around point of my run at the lookout atop the parking garage at Emmanuel Hospital, I can see cars on the Fremont Bridge, barges on the Willamette River, a light rail train below on Interstate Avenue and freight trains in the Union Pacific yard. I can see the state and country flags atop the Fremont Bridge, lights atop the Rose Quarter grain elevator and windmills atop a skyscraper downtown. I can see the sun glinting off the windows of the homes on the West Hills, fog hanging low in the valleys of Forest Park and curtains of rain to the north. I can see Mt. Hood haloed in orange to the east and snow covered foothills to the south. I can see cranes, lots of cranes, on the east side building a new childrens' hospital just 300 yards away and on the west side building another luxury high rise in the Pearl District. The Pearl was warehouses when I first came to Portland in 1991. Warehouses and the Henry's Brewery. I can see doctors and nurses coming and going from their cars, patients' families too. Today I saw an ambulance with lights pulsing climb the viaduct separating the Pearl and NW Portland. I saw it cross the Fremont Bridge and take the Kerby Street exit before disappearing for a minute only to appear again as it turned the corner to enter the Emergency Room lot. It dimmed its lights just before entering the hospital grounds.

A family friend of the Buckner-Suarez's lost their daughter to cancer recently. We babysat the Buckner-Suarez children while they attended the funeral. 

Thanks for your support,

Chris Chiacchierini