Big Dam Bridge/Chandler Street Loop

I did two laps of the Big Dam Bridge this morning in 50:26. I stopped my watch about halfway back on the first lap to talk to a woman named Erin Taylor. We met walking opposite directions, and she stopped to say, "I know you. Is your name Pete?" Erin was a junior on the Arkansas women's track team in Fayetteville when I spent the spring of 1983 there as a graduate assistant coach. Today she took forty-five minutes telling me about her last two jobs, her husband's job, her four children, and where all those girls from twenty-eight years ago are today. Twenty minutes into our conversation I told her I had another lap to go and suggested she walk with me to the north end of the bridge and then back to the Little Rock side where her car was parked, but she said, no, she had to hurry off somewhere, which she did, twenty-five minutes later. There's at least a chance I'll have grounds for a lawsuit if my sunburn turns to cancer.

I just turned on the Golf Channel to see Stacy Lewis walking down a fairway and sticking a banana in her mouth. That's why I have cable. I left my house at about a quarter to five and walked the Chandler Street Loop in 48:22. It was borderline cool earlier in the week, but is 93°F with a Realfeel® of 108 as I write. I would've waited until it got dark, but I saw on the Internet that Na Yeon was kicking butt in the Safeway Classic, and the tape-delayed broadcast started at 5:30, plus there's a preseason football game that starts at seven.