Ran 6.5 total miles on the roads at 7:15 pace. Ran past the Circus World Museum. Hot and humid, 80F. Lane showed up at practice today. Right knee and hip bothering me. Sat in the whirlpool again.
30 years later:
The Circus World Museum is the main tourist attraction in Baraboo. Located along the Baraboo River on the south side of town, it brings circus-lovers and other curious types in from miles away year 'round. I loved it when I was a kid. Not just for the daily big-top performance, but also for the historic, steam-powered calliopes and also the old circus posters and photographs. As a teenager, some of my classmates worked as performers there, including the red-headed LaGrassa sisters, Denise and Jane, who did high-wire acts, including spinning around held only by their teeth (or something like that, whatever it was exactly it was definitely scary and exciting and surreal). Denise is now a successful singer/songwriter, and was once a member of the Second City stage troupe. She was clever and sarcastic and funny in high school, and she was even a bit of a runner back then too. Would certainly be fun to share a bottle of wine with her and hear all about the adventures of her life.Running down to the Circus World Museum from the high school always started with downhills and ended with uphills. Most of Wisconsin was scraped flat by massive glaciers during the last ice age, but some areas in the southwest corner somehow went untouched, and still have plenty of hills to test your running legs. Baraboo is a great running town in part because of those hills, which could be much-maligned by we runners. If you live there now, go do a few repeats up Oak Street, feel your quads burn, and thus be a kindred spirit with all cross country teams past and present.
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