Broke the 200-mile mark today and posted a decent time (2:56, 16:11/mile) doing it. The weather has warmed up quite a bit, with highs in the upper 70s and lower 80s, along with late afternoon thunderstorms. I’m slightly behind schedule (220 miles/month), due largely to the combination last week of the blizzard and and the […]
Back in Colorado, gorgeous day. Did the usual route. ..bruce..
OK, I missed the last two days because of the blizzard that hit on Tuesday, leaving 6″ or so of “slushee” snow (Wednesday was mostly clear, but I would have spent most of the 11-mile route squishing through mud). So now I’m in Manhattan on business, and I walked from the the very south end […]
You think I’m kidding? Snow is falling, with wind gusts >30 mph. Nothing is sticking so far, but if I can trust the weather forecasters (who don’t have the best track record, frankly), we could see 6″ to 12″ of snow by tomorrow morning. Personally, I blame Bush. ..bruce..
I walked my standard 11-mile route clockwise today for the first time (up until now, I’ve been walking it counterclockwise). It’s like a whole new route: the up-and-down pattern is reversed, the ground underfoot is different, and the landscape when I look up is different as well. A couple of hills along the way seem […]
I walked yesterday but will be resting again today. ..bruce..
After a couple of very slow (>18 min/mile) days, I posted my best time to date: 2:55:10, or 15:55/mile. My goal is to finish consistently under 3 hours/11 miles, and to be able to break 15:00/mile on a weekly basis. I suspect I’ll need to lose some more weight in order to make that goal. […]
Gorgeous day today, so I took my Nikon D-70 along to photograph the route. I’ll post those photos later in the Trek tab. I’m glad I finished the walk when I did; it’s still quite sunny outside, but now the wind appears to be gusting in the 20-30 mph range (and possibly higher). ..bruce..
Shorter and slower today. Shorter because I walked to the local Hertz outlet to pick up a rental car for myself (Sandra left this morning, driving over to Utah to visit family). Slower because (a) the shoulder was muddy and slippery in places due to heavy rains last night, (b) I stopped at several points […]
Or How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love Global Warming Global warming – one of the great questions of the year, and maybe of our generation. The press is giving the topic a wide amount of coverage, and most of the headlines are grabbed by modern day prophets of doom. People proclaiming to be […]
