Training Archive: SwampfoxIn the 7 days ending 2008-01-19:
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Saturday Jan 19 | ||
| skiing 1:32:00 [3] | |
| Winds were in full tilt mode. Good thing it wasn't direly cold too! Lots of fresh snow, and the skiing was A++. | ||
Friday Jan 18 | ||
| Note | |
| Have to get fortified; some yumtastic Yowsa! is developing outside. | ||
| Yowsa!!! 1 [3] | |
| Powdah Yowsa!--yeah! It was so fine that when I got done, the only way it could get any better was to eat some pie of one of the citrine fruits. So I did. Yowsa!!! | ||
| C • Grapefruit pie? 6 | ||
| Note | |
| While I was tending to the pressing Yowsa! situation, I was left with a little time for some random thoughts, and I started thinking about what a sickly start the markets have got off to this year. They are off to an all-time worst ever January, and that's despite the Prez not too long back assuring everybody the American economy was strong and everything was OK because he was the Prez and how we were going to show those evildoers.
Market pundits have identified the ongoing credit/mortgage crisis and the attendant uncertainty as being the chief cause for the intense malaise. They've got it about half right, because if there's one thing investors hate, it's uncertainty. But they have got the nature of the uncertainty entirely wrong. The real uncertainty has to do with the G. There hasn't been a single official G pronouncement this year or even a press release as to when the next measurement might take place. No wonder the markets have gone to hell. What investors in their right minds would invest so much as a zinc plated nickel when they are worried and all fearful that a huge pig wattle of flabbiness is about to be unleashed upon the Attack-O-Sphere? It's not a $100 billion stimulus package that America so desperately needs (though it may want one.) It doesn't need any more progeny from the Spears Clan (though it's going to get one anyway.) It doesn't need anymore blandestations from prez wannabes about how, no, they're really going to be the toughest and most iron-fisted one on poor immigrants just trying to make a little money to send back to their families. It does not even need spandex, though when curved in the right ways by a svelte figure, there is surely nothing wrong at all with a little spandex now and then. Hmmmm....but I digress! No. What America needs is much simpler. It needs the G. PS--PG, if you are reading this, the markets have already been down for about 100 days in 2008, and January isn't even over yet. If you have any compassion at all for the obscenely overpaid Wall Street trader types and hedge funders and their ilk, you will hop on a scale at once! If this goes on much longer, soon they will be even less able to afford their trophy wives than they were already unable. | ||
| C • Regarding the current econo... 1 | ||
| skiing 2:08:00 [3] | |
| Perfect conditions: several inches of new snow, freshly groomed trails, temps in the crisp high single digits, and more moon than wind.
Didn't see any wolves, moose, golfers, or foxes. | ||
Thursday Jan 17 | ||
| Note | |
| I thought I might go out and get started on the new maps today, but when I glanced at the thermometer, I decided I would opt for skiing instead. I'll let another month go by; by then the local orange groves should be blossuming for sure, and the pollen laden bees buzzing happily in balmy spring airs. | ||
| skiing 1:52:00 [2] | |
| Cold, windy, snowing very light flour snow, made me feel like sesame cherry pie, found a carbon fiber ski pole. | ||
| biking 1:17:00 [2] | |
Wednesday Jan 16 | ||
| skiing 1:11:00 [3] | |
| It was really cold out and it didn't seem like a good idea at all to go out, but I had to--I had promised I would go look for someone, but it proved to be totally futile. The ice fogs were so thick in places up on the ridge you couldn't have seen if Mitt Romney was telling the phony truth or just the usual political "elect me" lies if he had been standing one foot in front of you.
It was so cold the skis had no forward glide whatsover. Hell, you'd have been lucky to have had any backwards glide! The only skier I saw on the trails was a cowgirl headed back for the parking lot, and her comment was: "It's too damn cold." If there had been any wind at all, it would have been. Well, truthfully, even without the wind it was. She was right. It's always seemed like a good idea to never get into arguments with cute cowgirls. The best skiing tactic turned out to be to totally disregard where the trails went, and instead to try to ski towards wherever the next patch of sun on the ground was, and then, when you got there, to linger as long as possible. | ||
| biking 1:35:00 [2] | |
Tuesday Jan 15 | ||
| Note | |
| I just want to be the first to say happy Estimated Tax Payment Day to the Taxman: happy Estimated Tax Payment Day, wherever you are, Mr. PG! | ||
| C • Ack! 8 | ||
| skiing 1:27:00 [3] | |
| "Change" being something of the catchword of the moment, I thought about change some too while I was out skiing. Specifically, I was thinking about the forest and the changes that are coming. On last night's news there was an interview with some forestry people down in Colorado, and they have revised their estimates of the kind of damage they expect to see the pine beetles do to the northern Colorado and southern Wyoming forests. They now apparently believe that mortality of the adult pine trees (I assume they meant lodgepole pines) in those forest will be essentially 100%.
Up at Happy Jack, if all the trees are killed, I'm not sure skiing will still be possible, since there won't be anything to hold the snow in place. And the forest there will perhaps become all but unusable for O', once dead trees start blowing down in numbers. But there are even bigger implications for things like temperatures, snowpack melt dates, water flows, etc. Brings to mind again that Bob Dylan song about the times... It was a little chilly when I went out, and got colder and colder, thanks to wind and cold air from Canada being driven in by that wind. Tomorrow is supposed to be quite cold and so it might be a great day to go to the gym and observe cowgirls! | ||
| biking 1:19:00 [2] | |
Monday Jan 14 | ||
| skiing 1:01:00 [3] | |
| A short ski, but it's so nice to get out at noon when the sun's out that it's more than worth it! In the sun, it felt like summer. A kind of glacial summer to be sure, but summer. | ||
| run 1:36:00 [2] | |
| A pleasant run at sunset. Very peaceful. | ||
| biking 1:03:00 [2] | |
Sunday Jan 13 | ||
| run 1:08:00 [3] | |
| Ran a mixture of dirt road, snow, and short grass prairie w/ sage. Funny to compare years; even though I haven't run much at all in 2008 so far, it took me until Feb 26 last year to run as many minutes as I already have this year. If I keep this up, I may have to return to school just so I can join the XC team. After all, I still have a full 4 years of eligibility! | ||
| skiing 2:11:00 [3] | |
| I was planning to ski long enough so that by the time I got home, the slaughtering of the Giants by the Cowboys would be complete. Imagine my shock and horror when I turned on the TV after stepping in, and finding out I had miscalculated--still 4 minutes left in the game! But then imagine how it felt when I saw the Giants were winning!!! There was a definite case of happy feet on the loose.
It serves those evildoers right, trying to curse the Giants like that by sneaking in a TO bobblehead action figure when they thought nobody was looking. | ||
| Note | |
| Lord knows I don't want to be one in the habit of squashing hopes, but how in the world could PG think he is going to buff up on one them tarnified, computerized, internet linked, fancy boy weight liftin machines? He must a run into some mighty kind of powerful mind alterin beast down there in the New Jersey boglands is all I gotta say. | ||
| C • My sources tell me that you... 3 | ||
| biking 52:00 [2] | |