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End of August Training Update
August Totals: Running 174.5 miles + Hiking 15.5 miles for Beej, Su ran about 3 miles less than that over 27 days. It was a good month! Highlights: We did a 20 mile run on 8/14 and a 22 mile run on 8/28 as our long runs – these are typically Susan’s favorite. For pure […]
Posted: September 3rd, 2010 under Fitness, Us.
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Mt. Willey (#38) – The Stairmaster
This weekend we decided to tackle Mt. Willey (4302′), a short but steep hike. Unlike our last hike, we knew this one would climb right out of the parking lot – no warmup, and not much change in grade, just an efficient walk up the mountain followed by retracing our steps down. We set off […]
Posted: August 22nd, 2010 under Hiking, Us.
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Training Update: week 8 (8/2) and week 9 (8/9)
8/2 week: Mountains and Hills Susan and Beej’s weekly mileage: 33.1 miles run and 9.8 miles hiked. Highlights: the hike (see prior post), and the odd feeling running around Maudslay on Sunday that our legs felt better while running than any other time the past 24 hours. 8/9 week: Beej’s weekly mileage: 51.2 Susan’s weekly […]
Posted: August 15th, 2010 under Fitness, Us.
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Christmas in February
We *finally* went luggage shopping today! Thanks to Christmas checks from our parents, we are ready for upcoming travels: We chose a 5-piece set that included a large wheeled bag for us to take on vacations (center) and a small wheeled carry-on bag (right) that were “must-haves” plus a bonus mid-sized wheeled bag (left), small […]
Posted: February 14th, 2010 under Us.
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525,600 minutes
For some reason Seasons of Love from Rent has been running through my head a lot this season as I think back over the year. The first measure that comes to mind is miles. Brian has been logging his miles on the road (950 miles biked, 575 miles on foot) and meters in the pool […]
Posted: December 30th, 2009 under Church, Family, Fitness, Food, Friends, Newburyport, Us.
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Sox tix time
Yesterday was the annual season ticket lottery for the Red Sox tickets we share with friends. This year we were picking #2 so we ended up with a nice weekend Yankees game in August rather than a random Tuesday night in April. Here are the games we have: 4/9 TB (opening series day game) 4/21 […]
Posted: March 15th, 2009 under Friends, Us.
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Catching Up
So other than dinner, what is new anyway? Since our last post, here’s what we’ve been up to. Brian canned 7 quarts of fresh peaches, his first foray into home canning, with delicious results. FTSD’s awesome social chairs planned a kayaking trip to Hopkinton on August 22. The weather was gorgeous and it was hard […]
Posted: September 13th, 2008 under Fitness, Friends, Hiking, Home, Newburyport, Us.
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More Washington
Phew! So much has happened in the last few days and I’ve finally managed to have time to write about it. Also, we had enough free time to run to Office Max to get a USB flash card reader so we can download our photos to the laptop. On Monday after the last blog posting […]
Posted: July 17th, 2008 under Us.
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Washington Part 1
We’re going to try to update the blog as we go along so we’re not overwhelmed by one tremendously long post at the end of our trip. Right now it’s just after noon PDT on Monday and we’ve managed to free some time to write our first update. This is Brian writing, even though I’m […]
Posted: July 14th, 2008 under Us.
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Spring planting, rounds 2 and 3
Last weekend we did a little work the yard to keep our momentum going, mostly defined the beds and moved the extra sod to the two bare areas. One area was where the bees built an underground hive a couple years ago, so there’s a valley in the lawn. The other area was under the […]
Posted: May 24th, 2008 under Brian, Home, Susan, Us.
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