Activity: road cycling Location: Dupont Circle > Potomac/Avenel, MD Distance: 36.3 miles (hilly) Duration: 2:04 Weather: sunny, 79 degrees Avg HR: 164 (max 183) Type: aerobic PPTC “Downtown Breakaway” ride. I missed the ride start, but caught up with the group within the first mile. Then I got dropped due to car traffic around mile …
It’s a sad day for music fans – especially fans of The Beatles, George Harrison and Eric Clapton – as Billy Preston, the “fifth Beatle” during the Get Back/Let It Be sessions, died this morning after a prolonged illness. Preston was 59. Billy Preston met The Beatles in the early 1960s, when he was one …
That’s my weight, sans vetements, as of 1:14 pm today, according to the calibrated scale in Georgetown’s field house locker room. That’s in the neighborhood of 17 pounds lower than my mid-winter weight, earlier this year. And there’s more to come off, for sure (a bit of mid-body “padding” that needs toning). So all this …
Tonight, sprite and I went to the Dupont Circle Citizens Association mayoral candidates forum. For both of us, it was the first candidate forum we’d been to this election season. In my case, the reason I’ve sat out is that I felt it was far too early to get involved with a campaign that, in …
