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Tuesday Oct 21, 2014 #
7 AM
Run 1:02:00 [3] 11.0 km (5:38 / km)
A morning session in Winchester, Virginia (west of Washington DC). I was staying in a strip-mall district the likes of which you certainly won't see in its British namesake (it took me five minutes to traverse the car park coming back), but once over the freeway overpass it was much nicer, first through Shenandoah University and a park, then past various war memorials and cemeteries before reaching the old town centre at the far end. The buildings there weren't quite as historic as the British version either (I suspect most of what was there pre-1861 got flattened in the Civil War), but still a nice enough precinct. A slow start to the run but picked up somewhat later on.
That was the start of the final day of the road trip part of this, a long day on the road which involved crossing a vast number of state borders - the score for the day was Virginia, West Virginia, Virginia again (for about a kilometre), Maryland, DC (for 20 metres on the south side of the Silver Spring roundabout, on the way to lunch with a longstanding NOAA contact), Maryland again, Delaware, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and New York. Swung via the New Jersey shore, partly to see how it was recovering post-Sandy (pretty well in the section I saw, although its foreshore dunes may have been high enough not to have been breached), and partly so that I wouldn't hit New York in peak hour. Now in New York City for the next couple of days before flying out Thursday night.
Spotted one sign at a set of roadworks (of which there have been plenty - especially in Canada, probably because they're rushing to get everything done before winter) saying it was a joint project between the federal and New Jersey governments. The sign also said that the feds were stumping up $151 million and New Jersey's contribution was a somewhat underwhelming $760,000, which doesn't sound terribly joint to me.
That was the start of the final day of the road trip part of this, a long day on the road which involved crossing a vast number of state borders - the score for the day was Virginia, West Virginia, Virginia again (for about a kilometre), Maryland, DC (for 20 metres on the south side of the Silver Spring roundabout, on the way to lunch with a longstanding NOAA contact), Maryland again, Delaware, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and New York. Swung via the New Jersey shore, partly to see how it was recovering post-Sandy (pretty well in the section I saw, although its foreshore dunes may have been high enough not to have been breached), and partly so that I wouldn't hit New York in peak hour. Now in New York City for the next couple of days before flying out Thursday night.
Spotted one sign at a set of roadworks (of which there have been plenty - especially in Canada, probably because they're rushing to get everything done before winter) saying it was a joint project between the federal and New Jersey governments. The sign also said that the feds were stumping up $151 million and New Jersey's contribution was a somewhat underwhelming $760,000, which doesn't sound terribly joint to me.