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Saturday Jan 5, 2019 #
1 PM
biking - dark blue bike 1:13:18 15.01 mi (4:53 / mi) +50ft 4:52 / mi
ahr:99 max:110
Nice tour of Seabrook Island with Gail. Sunny, breezy, mid-50s. Not hard to take.
Friday Jan 4, 2019 #
3 PM
Thursday Jan 3, 2019 #
10 AM
biking - dark blue bike 1:00:17 13.02 mi (4:38 / mi) +553ft 4:27 / mi
ahr:105 max:116
North Augusta bike trail with Gail. Started to rain after a couple of minutes. If we'd been a few minutes later getting ready, we might have just bagged it. As it was, got wet (rained the whole time) and a little chilly, but totally acceptable (rain in the upper 50s is a lot nicer than rain in the low 30s).
Good pace going out (slightly uphill) and back, with a detour towards the end to go right along the Savannah River.
Good pace going out (slightly uphill) and back, with a detour towards the end to go right along the Savannah River.
3 PM
Note
Lots of rain in the last week (or month? or year?). This guy was actually right on the trail we were walking along toward dusk. Glad Gail saw it because I might have stepped on it.
Tuesday Jan 1, 2019 #
7 AM
11 AM
biking - dark blue bike 1:22:58 16.78 mi (4:57 / mi) +835ft 4:43 / mi
ahr:100 max:128
With Gail, mostly around and about subdivisions because that's where it's safest. Mid 60s, cloudy, but we dodged the rain. Didn't dodge the hills, which aren't long but keep coming.
Nice to get out, even if the pressure is off. :-)
Nice to get out, even if the pressure is off. :-)
Monday Dec 31, 2018 #
8 AM
11 AM
biking - dark blue bike 55:48 10.58 mi (5:16 / mi) +559ft 5:01 / mi
ahr:97 max:117
Getting warmer, upper 60s, cloudy, sprinkles a couple of times. With Gail, sticking mainly to subdivision roads for safety reasons, had a tour of various developments. Actually pretty pleasant outing, minimal traffic, minimal stress. Nice way to end the year.
And a nice way to end MF2 -- no crashes, never seemed to be much risk (but all it takes is a moment). Rode on all but two of the 45 days (those were travel days to Austin and back), much to my surprise. The weather was amazingly cooperative, always offering a window of opportunity to get out.
Finished at 5,347 miles for the year, 841 miles for the period of MF2. Way more than I expected, but the motivation was so good (especially from Eric and Valerie at the end) that there wasn't a day that I didn't look forward to getting out, and then enjoy it when I was out. That is not so bad. :-)
For all the folks that made a pledge --
1. You can donate online at the OUSA website. Specify it's for the junior team and maybe add a note that it's for MF2.
2. Or send a check made out to Orienteering USA (our new bank seems happy with that, and it's easier than USOF fully spelled out), and send it to:
Orienteering USA
824 Scotia Rd
Philadelphia, PA 19128
Again, specify it's for the junior team.
3. Donations must be received by January 10 to get the match, so please do it right away.
4. It's not to late to join in. Just send in a donation for the junior team by January 10 and it will get the match.
5. Thank you, thank you, thank you.
Peter
And a nice way to end MF2 -- no crashes, never seemed to be much risk (but all it takes is a moment). Rode on all but two of the 45 days (those were travel days to Austin and back), much to my surprise. The weather was amazingly cooperative, always offering a window of opportunity to get out.
Finished at 5,347 miles for the year, 841 miles for the period of MF2. Way more than I expected, but the motivation was so good (especially from Eric and Valerie at the end) that there wasn't a day that I didn't look forward to getting out, and then enjoy it when I was out. That is not so bad. :-)
For all the folks that made a pledge --
1. You can donate online at the OUSA website. Specify it's for the junior team and maybe add a note that it's for MF2.
2. Or send a check made out to Orienteering USA (our new bank seems happy with that, and it's easier than USOF fully spelled out), and send it to:
Orienteering USA
824 Scotia Rd
Philadelphia, PA 19128
Again, specify it's for the junior team.
3. Donations must be received by January 10 to get the match, so please do it right away.
4. It's not to late to join in. Just send in a donation for the junior team by January 10 and it will get the match.
5. Thank you, thank you, thank you.
Peter
Sunday Dec 30, 2018 #
8 AM
Note
On the verge of raining, quite gloomy, but no reason not to visit someplace new.
And I don't think trees are supposed to be blooming on December 30th.
And I don't think trees are supposed to be blooming on December 30th.
4 PM
biking - dark blue bike 8:17 [3] 2.0 mi (4:08 / mi) +150ft 3:52 / mi
Part 1 of the ride, from Bill and Diane's house back to our motel to get my Garmin.
biking - dark blue bike 47:46 11.62 mi (4:07 / mi) +447ft 3:58 / mi
ahr:130 max:155
And part 2. Similar to Friday, trying to stay off the main roads as much as possible and quite happy to meander through subdivisions. Put out a good effort on all the ups, legs feeling tired unfortunately before I was done.
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Never thought this ride would happen. Went off on a family trip to the Georgia Aquarium in Atlanta. A bad decision, though surely not the first bad decision I have ever made, and also surely not the last. Must have been one of the worst possible days to go -- Sunday over Xmas holidays so everyone looking for something to do with the kids, and foggy/rainy outside. Hey, let's go to the Aquarium.
Packed well past the point where you are more aware of the crowd than the exhibits. And I don't tolerate crowds well (more accurately, I tolerate them really badly). My own internal scorecard had the trip as 90/10. That's 90% awful, 10% very cool. I tried to deal with it, not very successfully, though I guess I certainly could have done worse.
Eventually we left, got back home about 4:20. The rain had stopped. There was still time (doesn't get dark until 5:45 to 6). I've often noticed that the best cure for a bad mood is exercise and that was certainly true again, pretty much wiped the 90/10 right out of my memory bank.
The mind works in strange ways, for which I am sometimes very grateful.
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Never thought this ride would happen. Went off on a family trip to the Georgia Aquarium in Atlanta. A bad decision, though surely not the first bad decision I have ever made, and also surely not the last. Must have been one of the worst possible days to go -- Sunday over Xmas holidays so everyone looking for something to do with the kids, and foggy/rainy outside. Hey, let's go to the Aquarium.
Packed well past the point where you are more aware of the crowd than the exhibits. And I don't tolerate crowds well (more accurately, I tolerate them really badly). My own internal scorecard had the trip as 90/10. That's 90% awful, 10% very cool. I tried to deal with it, not very successfully, though I guess I certainly could have done worse.
Eventually we left, got back home about 4:20. The rain had stopped. There was still time (doesn't get dark until 5:45 to 6). I've often noticed that the best cure for a bad mood is exercise and that was certainly true again, pretty much wiped the 90/10 right out of my memory bank.
The mind works in strange ways, for which I am sometimes very grateful.