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Archive for June, 2006
san diego - aaaahhhh
It’s lovely out here in San Diego.
The flight from DCA to Orange County was uneventful. At our layover in Dallas, we saw the U.S. Soccer Team lose to Ghana, and thus see themselves eliminated from the World Cup. C’est la vie, I’m afraid. But they were fully outclassed by the [...]
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workout log: 20 june 2006
Activity: road cycling
Location: Dupont Circle > Potomac/Avenel, MD > Rockville, MD
Distance: 42.3 miles (moderately hilly)
Duration: 2:18
Weather: hot and humid, 85 degrees
Avg HR: 163 (max 187)
Type: aerobic
PPTC “Downtown Breakaway” ride, summer solstice edition. This is the longest route the Tuesday night ride will take, and it’s a doozy: lots of little “wall” hills in the [...]
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workout log: 18 June 2006
Activity: road cycling
Location: Dupont Circle > Potomac/Avenel, MD
Distance: 32.9 miles (moderately hilly)
Duration: 1:57
Weather: hazy, hot and humid, 91 degrees
Avg HR: 159 (max 184)
Type: aerobic
A hot mid-day ride that fit into a limited timeframe, following the usual “Downtown Breakaway” route (mainly due to the abundance of shade on the side streets). The ride was hot, [...]
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workout log: 16 june 2006
Activity: road cycling
Location: Dupont Circle > Hains Point
Distance: 16.1 miles (flat)
Duration: 0:57
Weather: sunny, 64 degrees
Avg HR: 148 (max 160)
Type: aerobic
Taking a page out of Wil’s playbook, I did an early morning ride. Unlike her, I wasn’t up at 4:00 am - but I was on the road by 6:15 am, which isn’t shabby for [...]
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apartment cleaning
Did I ever anticipate having so much crap in The Burrow?
Man.
It’s not like the place is very big. It’s actually quite cozy, and somehow it’s become even more cozy over the course of 2006. At least the kitchen is out of the way (and looking quite nice, I might add).
Still, tons of [...]
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stein dems shoot selves in foot
Okay, why in the name of everything that’s good about the District of Columbia did the Gertrude Stein Democrats endorse Linda Cropp for mayor?
Did they not notice that Cropp doesn’t believe that the LGBT population should have the same rights as heterosexual couples? Are the Stein Dems not only acknowledging the “gay ceiling,” but [...]
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