The Evil Eyebrow

Category: Travel

  • Nike Women's Marathon

    Peachtree Road Race 2008
    We’re off today to go to San Francisco for the 2008 Nike Women’s Marathon.

    Neither of us are truly “ready” for this race, but we’ll finish, even if our times aren’t what we’d like them to be. It’s a hilly course (duh, it’s San Francisco) but not terribly so. Especially not for people who train around Atlanta. While our hills may not be as tall as SF’s, there’s plenty of them. Funny enough, I’m not worried about the steep up hill portions of the route so much as the steep down hill descents that are on the other sides of them. Downhills can trash your quads, and the first one of those is at mile 10. Careful will be my watchword

    This race is a dry run, of sorts, for my intention to do a full Ironman-distance triathlon next year. I had said to myself last year that if I could train for and complete a marathon without any major issues, then I wouldn’t have any physical problems with training for and completing and ironman. Other than a couple fluke things which I’ve talked about before, I didn’t hit any major stumbling blocks, so it looks like the Ironman is on. Early November 2009, in Panama City Beach, Florida, I’ll be swim/bike/running for 13 or so hours.

    Crazy is in the eye of the beholder.

  • Favorite Photo of Two Days Ago

    Sugar Coated Bill

    This is what happens when you’re eating a beignet at Cafe du Monde, which is covered in powdered sugar, and the gust front of a thunderstorm swoops in.

  • Favorite Photo of Last Month – 2

    This photo is from our trip to Massachusetts last month. Believe it or nor, despite all the time I spent living within 60 miles of Minuteman National Park, the site of “The Shot Heard ‘Round the World”, I’d never been there before.

    Minuteman National Park

  • Superstitions

    Jenn and I were on vacation last week. We got back home last night at 2330, approximately 2 hours late.

    This is all Tom’s fault.

    We briefly stopped by Tom and Steph’s house because they happened to be near the airport and we had not seen them for a while. Tom asked whether we’d been experiencing any flight delays recently during our travels. I responded no, we hadn’t really, and any delays that were hitting us weren’t really important because we’ve been taking direct flights.

    At the time, I thought to myself, “Oh great. Tom said the “d” word, and we’re about due for our share of airport congestion after all the easy traveling we’ve had.” I remonstrated myself for that because, like saying “shutout” during a game, it’s all superstition with no effect on life (or the game), and our odds of experiencing delays don’t change because we’ve had a lucky streak. Dice have no memory.

    It’s still Tom’s fault, though.

  • Museum of Useful Things

    Next time I’m in Boston, I’m going to the Museum of Useful Things. Rock on!