Training Log Archive: chitownclark

Up at 7am for ride down to Chinatown with Sari for dim sum. And a bit of shopping for a gallon of soy sauce and some Chinese pastries: Bitter melon cake, custard tarts, almond cookies, mooncake, Lotus seed pastries.... Yum!

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Walking around checking out the multitude of gardens on display at the peak of the season, at the Sheffield Garden Walk. Just two blocks south of here. Our own neighborhood street festival is in two weeks! Taste of Lincoln Avenue. Five stages! A bit more raucous.

Run down the Lakefront and meet Sari for a swim in Lake Michigan. Cool but refreshing. In and out three times, before continuing my run south to pick up a check from a future tenant down near Chicago's Board of Trade building. The L home.

First time in Lake Michigan. Paddled around in the chill water, but no serious swimming down to Oak St Beach behind the buoy line.

Long bike ride of the season so far. Left the house at 5:10am, dawn barely breaking. Rode an hour before I saw the sun. And by that time I had reached the forest preserves along the North Branch of the Chicago River.

Rode up to Glenview, then east to Green Bay Road, and south to the pancake house for breakfast at 7am. Came down the Lakefront Bike Path. Had to stop and rest in the park along the way...exhausted! Used to be able to do 100 miles and still feel pretty spry. Oh well. Glad I did the ride today...some beautiful moments, watching dawn come over the prairies and enjoying nature's fragrances of summer....

First exercise since Friday because of back spasm. Felt great to get out and run...even at 16 minute miles!

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