4 1/2 on a Saturday still is a good thing

Yesterday I started out on my regular Saturday run which is really a walk now and went towards teh mountains. I turned to the North. Unlike a lot of Saturdays I decided to head West and to go to a neighborhood that has a green park like area along side an Arroyo. I ought to remind me of the old Portneuf river that runs by the house I grew up in. That river, way back then, had natural banks and overhanging trees and was a very interesting place to grow up by but then today it is just a cement arroyo that the river runs through. In our area the water runs off of what is sort of a long bench area extending from the Mountains and it will build up into a fast moving stream with quick heavy summer rains so a cement arroyo is the answer. All that said the particular one I wanted to take my run by has a park like area built around it. It is indeed unusal to see this much grass. After reaching that destination I headed back home. The run/walk totaled about 4 and 1/2 miles or so. Very different from Saturday runs of years past. .