Roxbury 10k a.m. Love run

COVID-19 “The Rona Era”

This morning I had to think and plan out where I wanted to run. Today is 10k a.m. humpday run. Where could I run that would be six miles. I realize when I’m unsure of the route it can impact if I finish the 10k or not. I’ll finish the route and it wouldn’t be a 10k or it will be way over a 10k route. The mind of a runner, well me.

I was feeling some black love today. Since my undergraduate Alma mater, Ohio University is retrenching the African-Americans studies department and getting ride of tenure- track faculty, I’m in feeling all kinds of ways. This is the department that I was apart of in undergraduate. The memories, the history, and what a public university means to the state and serving it’s population is so important. I’m still in my feelings, so I’m running in Roxbury today.

I needed some Roxbury love and some black love. I ran through Dudley square and Grove hall, all apart of the African-American history of Roxbury. I saw one women of color running this morning and we nodded at each other. I also so black and brown women and men going to work, waiting at the bus stop, and already doing yard work, moving grass of different properties.

The intersections of race, class, and space; I’m been in neighborhoods and people are out running and walking in the morning. They are not waiting on the bus or walking to work. In addition, I forgot how hilly Roxbury is I pushed on for 6.22 miles of a wonderful run in this neighborhood.