38th Street Loop/Orange Street Loop

I walked the 38th Street Loop this morning in 29:11. Last I looked, it was 32 degrees in Levy, and 63 in Port Hawkesbury, Nova Scotia.

Starting at about 645 p.m. Central, I walked the Orange Street Loop in 36:58, with splits of 12:46, 12:25, and 11:47. The key swing thoughts in this race-walk business are putting your feet down to the inside, as if you were trying to walk a tight rope (this is what makes race walkers' hips go from side to side in that very funny looking way), bending your toes up toward your shins as far as you can as you step forward, and really getting your arms into it. It takes a lot of concentration, but got easier as I went tonight. A few times, when it was all clicking, I felt almost as if I were running. This could be a good cross-training exercise. I think I might feel less self-conscious on the River Trail than in Levy.

SENTENCE OF THE DAY from A Different Closet
Six weeks in a cast was a new experience, and his right hand felt odd, weak perhaps, with numbness where the plaster had pinched the base of his thumb, but after a moment of dribbling and taking a handful of shots and layups he became unconscious of it.