Saturday May 3 |
 | run 1:14:00 [3] | |
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| biking 1:00:00 [2] | |
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Friday May 2 |
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| I don't look at the Kansas City Star as often as I used to back in the days when Spike was a KC employee and assisting head dude sort of guy. But something stirred me to look at it this morning, and right up top was a funky picture of Mayor Funkhouser, who used to be Spike's boss.
What made the photo funky was the house in the background, which wasn't looking too happy. In fact, it looked like it had been beset upon.
Last night some strong Wyoming winds snucked across the prairies and, when nobody was looking, pounced on portions of Kansas City and did some appreciable amounts of destruction.
Judging by the blizzard roaring through Laramie this morning, Kansas City may need some shelter from the (coming) storm. |
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| Things are not looking up for mapping any US Classic Championships area today:
Organizers are right now trying to decide if the annual Laramie Pre-Kentucky Derby Outdoor Sunbathing Beauty Contest should be held or not. My guess is they are going to skip the over the contest as an unnecessary formality and head straight for the awards ceremony, which, by tradition, takes place at various of the downtown watering spots. |
| run 49:00 [3] | |
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| Around town at end of the day (highways closed all day.) Some snow, a bit more wind, but the worst of the wind was off to the east and so it wasn't so bad. |
| biking 52:00 [2] | |
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Thursday May 1 |
| run 1:18:00 [2] | |
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| In between repeated snow squalls, there were moments when it wasn't snowing. Technically, this qualifies as snow intervals. For some reason, I felt like a harmonica every time a new squall blew through. When I got home, I got an atlas, opened it up randomly several times, and each time I stabbed a finger down on it with my eyes closed. Must have been some kind of hoodoo voodoo going on, because every single time my finger ended up on top of Marksville, Louisiana. Very strange! |
| biking 1:10:00 [2] | |
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Wednesday Apr 30 |
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| So the rumors that Sweden faces a severe korv crisis due to the diversion of korv for the production of korvahol are true. This is not good news. In fact, this is very bad news. After hearing news like this, I would hardly be surprised were it to snow in Laramie as a consequence.
This would never happen if Willie Nelson were in charge, and that's for sure.
I doubt this can be blamed on Texans though, since, in Sweden at least, they are mostly involved in the trade in illegal BBQ, and not korv. |
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| C • The production of korvahol... 2 |
| run intervals 1:24:00 [4] | |
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| It was really quite nice out this afternoon, and, for a while, almost calm. But while I was out mapping and close to the time I had been planning to stop, I felt a whiff of wind coming from a new direction, and the air coming in on the wind was noticably cooler. That had to be the arrival of the predicted cold front--and it was. I quit mapping and headed out to run, hoping to beat any wet/white stuff, and did a standard set of intervals.
It was icy cold and the wind was blasting away by the time I got done, but the only precipitation I encountered was my own sweat. Glad to get this done todat, because tomorrow is not looking too great.
My guess is that temps dropped 25-30 degrees in the space of an hour. Brrrrrr! |
| biking 1:10:00 [2] | |
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Tuesday Apr 29 |
| unsecret mtn bike training 36:00 [2] | |
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| North Prairie |
| run 1:11:00 [3] | |
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| biking 52:00 [3] | |
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Monday Apr 28 |
| biking 1:06:00 [3] | |
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| Windy, otherwise a nice change from late winter. |
| Orienteering 1:33:00 [3] | |
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| Diamond Bay. |
| biking 50:00 [2] | |
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Sunday Apr 27 |
| run 1:33:00 [3] | |
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| Back up at Happy Jack for a happy run on the snowy trails there. Still better for skiing than for running, but not really all that good for skiing so maybe it goes over into the "better for running" column after all. At any rate, much better to be running in the forest than out in the open, on the account of stupendously mighty winds that were in full control of the Laramie Range today. |
| biking 53:00 [2] | |
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