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Activity: road cycling
Location: Dupont Circle > Potomac, MD
Distance: 37.4 miles (moderately hilly)
Duration: 2:23
Weather: sunny, 67 degrees
Avg HR: 156 (max: 171)
Type: aerobic
After a morning painting at Shaw Middle School as part of Hands On DC, I went on this nice, meandering ride. The weather was perfect, and I had a blast improvising the route. [...]

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Yesterday, the House Energy and Commerce Committee defeated an amendment to the the Barton-Rush Act, a bill that will affect the broadband telecommunications industry. This particular amendment requires the internet to be “neutral,” and would prevent phone and cable companies from instituting tolls and pay-as-you-go pricing for internet services.
However, after yesterday’s 34-22 vote to [...]

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Activity: road cycling
Location: Dupont Circle > Hains Point, DC
Distance: 17.0 miles (flat)
Duration: 1:05
Weather: partly cloudy, 72 degrees
Avg HR: 131 (max: 148)
Type: aerobic
A recovery ride (”zone 2″ in the CTS scale) to take advantage of some postcard weather and get in some more miles. I tried to keep my heart rate under 135 while riding [...]

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On April 26, 1986, there was a nuclear accident in Chernobyl, USSR (now Ukraine).
And I remember where I was when I heard the news: I was on a school outing to Mesa Verde National Park. Our group from Rowland Hall - St. Mark’s School was camping in the Morefield Campground, and I [...]

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Activity: road cycling
Location: Dupont Circle, DC > Potomac/Avenel, MD
Distance: 27.6 miles (moderately hilly)
Duration: 1:39
Weather: mostly cloudy and breezy, 75 degrees
Avg HR: 158 (max: 185)
Type: aerobic
PPTC “Downtown Breakaway” ride. Same route as last week, which was fine. There were thunderstorms threatening during the second half, which thankfully held off until later this evening. [...]

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Sam knows all about the inherent goodness of cone. If you add ice cream, frozen yogurt, or sorbet to it, it achieves nirvana.
Can you tell that today is Ben & Jerry’s Free Cone Day?
My cone was topped with strawberry ice cream - positively divine!
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