Ran 21 this morning in about 2:20 as the Veneto fog burned off and let the hazy sun shine through. I felt fine, not great, not terrible, a little tight for the first few miles, as is normal on an early morning run. With the flat terrain, my hamstrings were fried, so I stretched for a good while afterwards. The good thing about rolling terrain is that uphills shift the workload to your quads. Tammi ran early too, and when she finished her run she went into Venice for research. I took an early afternoon train in to meet her and we spent the day there. We visited the narrow little island of Giudecca, not more than 150m wide at its widest, where the church of SS Redentore faces S. Marco across the water. Built to thank God for lifting the plague that ravaged Venice in 1575-76, it was designed by Andrea Palladio, who built a lot of things here in the Veneto. I am trying to develop an eye for the differences between the many talented Italian Renaissance architects, but I have a hard time keeping all of them straight. I have a hard time with the differences between Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian, too.
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