................. BBC 5: My 10-speed and me .................

 saw 

this much of 

Boston, Brookline and Cambridge 

today.

Took off under

blue, empty skies

from

 Southie at 7:05 a.m. 

to end up at

333 Longwood Ave for

95 minutes of lunges and stretches,

heading then to

Copley Square

and the 

office 

for

440 minutes of filing and typing,

after which it was onto

Southwest Corridor Park

3 more miles

to pick up a forgotten sweater

at

a friends' place on 

School Street in JP, 

then due west to the

Jamaicaway

and 

due north to

Brookline Village

and then 

lovely, wealthy, residential

Brookline itself, 

past

Boston University and

crossing the river

on the bridge

named after it,

to end up with another friend

at the 

Central Kitchen

in 

Central Square,

followed by a 

sangria-fueled trek

south on Mass Ave

in the dark,

past the 

departing Red Sox crowds clogging the crosswalks

at Boylston

at the same moment the

buses were filling up with

departing Pops' patrons

and clogging Huntington, 

before breaking free and sprinting

over 93 South 

and

back again through 

Andrew Square

and

straight up the 

Dorchester Street Hill-o-Pain,

itself a mini Heartbreak 

at

mile 19,

and,

at 10:52 p.m.,

cruising the last 2 blocks

back down the hill

to Emerson Street

and

home

and 

bed

Goodnight.