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 …
So I wasn’t feeling my best last night: sneezing, runny nose, groggy head, and an upset stomach. I took a Benadryl and a Pepto pill and hit the hay. I then woke up 4 times during the middle of the night to, as Monty Python said, “clear the sluices at both ends.” I was running …
I awoke this morning to the sound of rain (and the sound of Della pawing at the window to “greet” her friend, the rain) and groaned: would this be like last year’s Bike To Work Day, where it rained buckets and I rode the bus, instead? Fortunately, the rain fell at 6:00 am, and I …
Activity: road cycling Location: Bowie, MD > Deale, MD Distance: 52.6 miles (mostly flat with a few rolling hills) Duration: 2:46 Weather: overcast and muggy, 60 degrees Avg HR: 160 (max 180) Type: aerobic PPTC “New Deale” ride. An excellent ride, one of my all-time favorites. It had everything: a few hills, gorgeous farmland, forests, …
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!
Spending the weekend in Connecticut for Easter, and it’s a welcome break. Firstly, the climate up here is a few weeks behind DC – they actually had a winter – and the pollen count is much, much lower. So my allergies are on hiatus, allowing my poor nose and lungs to recover a bit. (And …
Today is a day of much-needed rain here in DC. It’s a cold rain, but a good one for our water table. On another note, I woke up this morning with extreme pain in my lower back, right hand side, where my spine attaches to my pelvic structure. It was fierce. I took some Tylenol …
…all over the kitchen when trying to tranfer said oil into a multi-layered plastic bag for disposal. Now I know what those bodybuilders feel like. And after a shower to get it all off of my hands, legs and feet, I wonder: how do those people do it? How do they wash all that stuff …
The best time to go celebrity watching at the “Social Safeway” in Georgetown seems to be between 9:00 and 10:00 pm. I happend to be at said Safeway around 9:30 this evening and ran into a couple of political “celebrities”: DC’s Ward 2 Councilman Jack Evans. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito. Running into the former …
Two completely unrelated things…. sorta. Y’see, there’s construction going on at my office, three floors up from my basement desk. During this time, there’s been a lot of ruckus (whole walls torn out, for example), as well as a lot of wholesale propping of twin-sets of fire doors. Somehow, during all of this, some mice …
