Saturday Jan 5 |
 | skiing 1:36:00 [3] | |
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| 2" new. Lucky to not get blasted by last night's and this morning's super-winds. |
| biking 1:10:00 [2] | |
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Friday Jan 4 |
| run 37:00 [3] | |
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| Nice trot out in the Flats. Saw one cowgirl on a horse. |
| skiing 1:10:00 [3] | |
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| Very windy, not in the least bit cold. |
| biking 1:17:00 [2] | |
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Thursday Jan 3 |
| run 40:00 [3] | |
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| skiing 1:27:00 [3] | |
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| Skied past dusk. Mild. Windy. So fine. |
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| I'm watching the Orange Bowl. Not totally sure who to root for. On the one hand, I'm wearing a brand new Virginia Tech hat--it fits perfectly, and I think the colors enhance my guitar playing skills. On the other hand, the KU campus is one of only two campuses I've raced on (I think we can all agree that West Point is much too bucolic a place to count as a campus.) I know quite a few KU alumni, but then there are ties to several Va. Tech alumni as well.
The contrast in the programs is interesting. Virginia Tech has a rich tradition as a football power. Thousands upon thousands of unsuspecting graduates would be quite surprised to look at their diploma and find it doesn't say they graduated from Beamer Ball University. Students routinely refer to the weekdays in between football games as "wasted time".
Kansas, on the other hand, has no football tradition to speak of. The average KUer has no idea there is even any football team at all, except for maybe intramural tag football. When they see a football player on campus in pads and helmet, they assume they are looking at a member of the vaunted KU rodeo team. Some KUers will turn on the TV tonight and start watching the Orange Bowl, wondering why in the world some other college would want to rent the KU Jayhawk mascot just for this game, not realizing that it is the KU football team on the screen. And then what can you say about Coach Mangino, other than that he brings a whole new meaning to the term "Big Man on Campus."
All in all, I believe I will have to profess to perfect nuetrality for the evening. |
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| C • running on campus 21 |
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| C • Basketball school 2 |
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| Zumamaiya!!! Halftime show by ZZ Top!!!! So tasty, so fine! |
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| C • Halftime 3 |
| biking 50:00 [2] | |
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Wednesday Jan 2 |
| skiing 1:32:00 [3] | |
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| About 30 degrees milder than it was yesterday. It felt fairly tropical! |
| run 27:00 [3] | |
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| Fun facts I learned while watching the news tonight (though I suppose it depends on your notion of fun):
1) Wyoming leads the nation in per capita deaths from carbon monoxide poisoning. With all that wind, you'd just think...
2) Laramie was the hot spot in Wyoming today at 40F. That hardly ever happens. Probably the meteorologists all over are double checking their figures.
And who says you can't learn anything from the TV. |
| biking 1:20:00 [2] | |
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Tuesday Jan 1 |
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| Ushering in the New Year last night was the Bee Delux Blues Band.
Here's Susie Bee:
Here's Sammie Bee:
They say it don't get too raucus in little Laramie, but it weren't none too true last night. Man they were buzzin', man were they loud! |
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| C • Sweet. 2 |
| skiing 2:20:00 [3] | |
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| Chilly. Quite a few skiers out, to judge by the cars in the parking lot. |
| biking 1:12:00 [2] | |
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Monday Dec 31 |
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| Kissy has a cold. At first, she tried to claim it was just an allergic reaction to swimming yesterday, which of course is ridiculous. The interesting thing is that at most smaller, high altitude airports such as Laramie, the commuter airlines have a strict "no colds" policy and won't board passengers who have colds.
The whole thing is more than a little reminiscent of the Friends episode where Monica has a cold and she keeps trying to get Chandler to do things with her. |
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| Finished roughing out all the Day 1 courses for the US Classic Champs. I'll put them aside for now and look at them later. I imagine I'll make some changes once they've had a chance to ferment a little, but it was nice to see I didn't have to work very hard to put together some workable designs--a tribute to the terrain. |
| skiing 1:23:00 [3] | |
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| Cold and crisp out, but the sun was nice and took the edge off of things. Tracks were freshly groomed for great skiing! |
| run 45:00 [3] | |
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| A chilly way to close out the running year. Nothing melting out in Laramie today, and the valley albedo is about as high as it gets. Beautiful views out to the west side of the valley. |
| biking 1:02:00 [2] | |
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Sunday Dec 30 |
| Yowsa!!! 1 [4] | |
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| Full tilt blizzarding Yowsa! conditions, all roads closed, and therefore no Happy Jack skiing today, and that's for sure. Fully expect to have to repeat this workout later. |
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| C • 2 |
| biking 2:03:00 [2] | |
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| When all the roads out of town are shut down by howling blizzards, the bike is not a bad option to take. |