Tuesday Jan 31 |
 | road run 48:21 [3] 12 km (4:02 / km) | |
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| Roland Park reverse. |
Monday Jan 30 |
| road run 49:35 [4] 12.55 km (3:57 / km) | |
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| Roland Park. Warm. |
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| Ran across some photos from WOC 2004 in Sweden. Made some interesting "multiple exposure" shots. These are kindof cool:
Cherie Mahoney in start chute, Long Final
Two of the three N.A. Mikes in the Relay
Sandy H-J starting the Sprint Final
Brian May starting the Sprint Final
Cherie starting the Long Final
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| C • Cool,but... 2 |
Saturday Jan 28 |
| trail run 57:59 [3] 12.43 km (4:40 / km) | |
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| Loch Raven on a warm afternoon. Very muddy. Was charged by 3 different snarling, unleased dogs in a 30 min period. Two of the owners said "He's allright, he's allright." Ahh, that explains the snarling and barking. These bastards are like broken records. And when I stop to walk do they grab the animal and hook up the leash they are carrying? Hell no. The nice weather brings out all the fuckers. Thats one nice thing about running in crappy weather. Even the dogs refuse to go out. |
Friday Jan 27 |
| road run 51:30 [3] 12.55 km (4:06 / km) | |
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| The usual. |
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| C • 1 |
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| Interesting day at work today. I put out a fire in an ash bin on the 4th floor balcony with a fire extinguisher. My office looks out across this patio and there are concrete ash bins on each end. The one on the far end had a plume of smoke coming out, so I went to have a look. It was smoking heavily but I couldn't see to the bottom. I grabbed the metal ashtray from the other bin (the burning one was missing its metal tray). Put the tray on top to snuf the fire, but there was a crack near the bottom too. So I went inside and got an extinguisher from the hall, flipped the metal tray back off and smote it. I smote it good. :) Then noticed that the concrete side had broken out from the heat and dumped smolering butts all over the patio tile. The tiles just sit on top of the tarred roof, so this seemed like a bad thing. I fired the extinguisher into the hole at the bottom a few times. All of this made a huge cloud of smoke and dust on the patio. Lots of offices look out on this patio, but no one seemed to notice what was going on. Maybe I'm the only one who looks out the window at work :) So after it was out I headed back in to call facilities and just then the librarian appeared with the crew, who had been getting reports of people smelling smoke. They got a bucket of water to completely douse it, and they took away the broken ash bin. The fire was caused by a burning cigarette package, which someone had thrown into the bottom with the smoldering butts. Yeah, smokers are a pretty dumb lot. Actually they are addicts who don't care about anything except their next smoke. Maybe this episode of nearly burning down the building will finally get smoking banned from the 4th floor patio.
After playing fireman I promptly spilled coffee all over myself and my chair, so for the rest of the day I walked around in a stained, untucked shirt and pants, smelling like an ash tray. |
Thursday Jan 26 |
| road run 48:29 [3] 12 km (4:02 / km) | |
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| Roland Park. Reverse direction from usual - yeah, I'm a wild and crazy guy. |
Wednesday Jan 25 |
| road run 50:18 [4] 12.55 km (4:00 / km) | |
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| Roland Park. Windy. |
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| C • Great Falls? 8 |
Tuesday Jan 24 |
| road run 51:08 [3] 12.55 km (4:04 / km) | |
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| Roland Park. Bad stomach today. |
Sunday Jan 22 |
| trail run 1:44:08 [3] 23 km (4:32 / km) | |
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| 2/3 trail, 1/3 road. Out to meet Brad at the closed section of road. Ran along with him (he was rollerskiing) for a while, then turned back. Felt dead. It was farther than I excpected. Climbed 1500' |
Saturday Jan 21 |
| trail run 56:29 [3] 12.4 km (4:33 / km) | |
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| At the Loch. Toasty warm, but the front came through about 40 mins after I started and the wind really picked up. Climbed 1150' |
Friday Jan 20 |
| road run 49:32 [4] 12.55 km (3:57 / km) | |
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| Roland Park. |
Thursday Jan 19 |
| road run 48:58 [4] 12.55 km (3:54 / km) | |
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| Roland Park. Sweeeeet. I should eat a whole bag of goldfish more often. |
Wednesday Jan 18 |
| road run 49:46 [4] 12.55 km (3:58 / km) | |
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| Roland Park. Windy. |
Tuesday Jan 17 |
| trail run 38:21 [3] 8.62 km (4:27 / km) | |
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| Morning run at the Loch. |
Sunday Jan 15 |
| trail run 1:52:51 [2] 14.4 km (7:50 / km) | |
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| Trail run at the Loch with Sandy and Valerie. Cold and very windy. Nice to have company for a change, and they made me pancakes! PAN-CAKES! Route and profile. Thanks to Val for the GPS track! Now I know where the trail *actually* go. Climbed 1400' |
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| C • Eddie's Route 2 |
Saturday Jan 14 |
| trail run 41:46 [3] 8.8 km (4:45 / km) | |
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| Went north at the Loch. Extremely windy. Really neat in the forest. Climbed 980' |
Friday Jan 13 |
| trail run 38:48 [3] 8.62 km (4:30 / km) | |
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| Morning run at the Loch. Foggy. |
Thursday Jan 12 |
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| Busy week at work. The AAS meeting (American Astronomical Society) is going on in D.C. and I've been working on some presentations for that. Was up all night Tues finishing one of them. Here is a PDF copy of my poster if you are interested. Its 2MB. Printed size was 46"x42", so you will have to zoom in to read it. Yesterday was our big orion nebula press release. An article appeared on CNN this morning. I spent the past several months building the mosaics that went into this picture, although someone in the art dept "photoshop"'ed the 5 filters for the release. Its quite an image. At native resolution its 36,000x32,000 pixels - equivalent to a 1.2 Gigapixel (1200 Megapixel) camera :) Follow this link to all the HST realease images:
Spike took a picture of Orion from his back yard in February. It is posted on his blog. The nebula is the middle blob in the short sword, which hangs down towards the lower right ffrom the wider, brighter 3 stars of the belt.
Today is the release of the Hubble Ultra Deep Field follow-on program (UDF05). Not sure if there will be any press on that or not. Its basically an extension to the HUDF that was done a couple of years ago. I've been working on the IR data from that. |
| road run 50:06 [4] 12.55 km (4:00 / km) | |
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| Roland Park. |
Tuesday Jan 10 |
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| I posted some of the 2004 1000-day (Wyoming) pictures for some interested foreigners. A few of them are kindof funny :) Like these:
Funny1.jpg
Funny2.jpg
Funny3.jpg
The rest can be found here. Don't forget to bring a golf club or two this summer! |
Monday Jan 9 |
| road run 50:03 [4] 12.55 km (3:59 / km) | |
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| Roland park. Sweating like a pig in a short-sleeve cotton Tee. Nearly 60F at the start (sunset). |
Sunday Jan 8 |
| trail run 41:45 [3] 8.9 km (4:41 / km) | |
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| Down and around at the Loch. To and from an interval set. |
| trail run 5:29 [5] 1.5 km (3:39 / km) | |
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| Uphill trail intervals. 375m each, 25m climb (7%) x4
1:26
1:22
1:20
1:21
3 mins jog down between each and 2 mins rest. |
| trail run 12:00 [2] 1.5 km (8:00 / km) | |
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| Jog back down the hill each time. |
Saturday Jan 7 |
| trail run 1:08:09 [3] 15.3 km (4:27 / km) | |
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| On the trails at Loch Raven. Stunning mid-winter afternoon. Now back at work (bleah). |
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| C • Did you get lost? 1 |
Thursday Jan 5 |
| road run 49:17 [4] 12.55 km (3:56 / km) | |
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| Roland Park. Cranked it up a little today. |
Wednesday Jan 4 |
| road run 51:39 [3] 12.55 km (4:07 / km) | |
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| Roland Park. |
Tuesday Jan 3 |
| road run 50:14 [3] 12 km (4:11 / km) | |
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| Roland Park. |
Sunday Jan 1 |
| orienteering 3:27:41 [2] 17.5 km (11:52 / km) | |
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| Rogaine vetting on the Michaux, SF with Brad. about 1/3 running, 2/3 walking. Lots of steep. Saw many, many charcoal platforms. Platforms rule! |
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| C • Platforms! 4 |
