You wouldn't believe it, but I ran into a pink rainbow piano on my way home from work today. I found it unattended under the Morphett Street Bridge. Later, I found another one under the King William Street Bridge on my run along the river. I suppose the new hot spot for lonely pianos is under bridges.

Actually, I went to the website when I got home. I found that there are pianos all over the Adelaide parklands, the city and some of the outer suburbs. It's part of the Come Out Festival, which is an arts festival for children. When the festival ends, all of the pianos are donated to schools and community groups.

By the way, they are real pianos. I could have sat down on the chair and played one of the parts of "Heart and Soul" until my fingers hurt, but I didn't really feel like it.

After my experience with the rainbow piano, I went for a nice and easy run along the river. I saw lots of these guys (and the other piano).

I did my normal three-mile loop. I still found- like I find every time -that I got so tired just as I got to the end of my run. It's always in the same spot: right as I cross the weir over the river on the western side of the city, go around the side of the coffee shop and get on the wooded path that heads back to the city.

Today, instead of letting that exhaustion get to me (and really, for somebody who works out regularly, 3 miles is not very far to run), I played some mental games. You how when you're in the car with a full bladder, and you feel like you are going to explode just as you realize that you are just about to stop at a bathroom? It suddenly gets worse? When that happens to me, I always pretend that I have much further to drive before I reach a bathroom. It somehow calms me and makes me hold on for longer without being in extreme discomfort. There's something about almost being there that makes it harder to wait.

I applied that mental game to my run today. Instead of thinking that I had five minutes left to go, I imagined that I was going to do the loop all over again. You know what? I probably could have run those extra three miles if I didn't really feel like going home and starting dinner. Instead of feeling fatigued and gasping for air when I finished, I felt like I had a great run. I'll definitely think like that again the next time that I do the loop. Maybe I'll even go for six miles (if Right Leg allows it).

When I got home, I cooked a minestone salad recipe from taste.com.au.

I made a couple of changes, such as using wholemeal spiral pasta instead of regular macaroni. I also didn't have red wine vinegar or yellow cherry tomatoes. I just used white wine vinegar and stuck to the red tomatoes. It turned out great. It's just like minestrone soup but without the soupy-y liquid. It would be great in the summer when it's hot but you still have a craving for the soup. This stuff will last me for days!