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Eat Your Heart Out Boulder…

Today made me think of a line from the movie Field of Dreams (slightly changed to fit the circumstances, of course) “Is this heaven?  No, it’s Mechanicsburg”.  Everything came together this afternoon for the perfect run – not a cloud … Continue reading

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Jumping Straight Into The Deep End

Three quality days since Syracuse – “quantity days” may be a more accurate assessment, as I am finding myself gingerly going down flights of stairs on very tender quadriceps… Got in the pool for an easy hour on Monday before … Continue reading

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37 Laps and All’s Well

I have seemed to have settled into the every other day/every third day blogging routine lately due to lack of time and lack of anything good to write.  With today’s workout in the bag I figure that instead of killing … Continue reading

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Pipe Dreaming

Been doing the east coast thing for the first time in a while, Chicago yesterday and Boston today.  Temperatures all over have been unseasonably cool with the exception being Wednesday in Philadelphia – probably mid-40’s yesterday and maybe 50 today. … Continue reading

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Live by the Toy, Die by the Toy

Got into Denver yesterday morning.  After making the rookie mistake of not hanging the “Do Not Disturb” sign on my doorknob, got woken up by the maid’s telltale door tapping way earlier than I had planned on getting up.  Great. … Continue reading

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Garmin Time

Back at home, at least for a couple of days.  Getting next week off turned out to be a pipe dream, new plan has me catching a United flight back out to California (LAX) on Monday morning to work Tuesday … Continue reading

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Call Guinness! (the book, not the brewery)

Chuck Yeager used to ask for a stick of Beeman’s chewing gum before he went out and smashed through the sound barrier or any other barrier he wanted to smash.  Since Beeman’s is no longer sold I was forced to … Continue reading

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Two Doses of LSD

Have spent the last two days trying out this LSD thing, and I have to admit there may be some merit to the whole concept.  After a week of feeling about 70%, I didn’t want to take any significant time … Continue reading

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Still a Little Run Down

Weekend in the books, on the road again already heading south for Fort Lauderdale.  Got in two more good days of work, but although I feel fine during day-to-day ops I’m not convinced that the body has totally shaken/recovered from last weeks … Continue reading

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Been a While

I’ve been a little lax in my blogging lately – as they say at the Naval Academy “no excuse sir!”  Haven’t written in 3 days, have gotten in runs each day that I hope will help me be ready for … Continue reading

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