Levy Trail

I walked two miles on the Levy Trail this morning in 31:33. I had a slight limp at first, but it was gone after ten or fifteen minutes. I'm getting better.

Levy Trail

I felt pretty good tonight. My hip feels odd, but not painful. I walked the Levy Trail in 34:52.

Levy Trail

The only pain that remains is in my left hip joint, and it's minimal. It hurts the most when  I'm horizontal. To walk without a limp this morning meant I had to take 38:19 to walk two miles on the Levy Trail. I might take tomorrow off.

Foggy Bottom Drive Loop

FLORRISANT, Mo.—I walked the Foggy Bottom Drive Loop this morning in 35:43. My foot is fine. My groin and hip hurt much less, but still hurt. My limp remains, but it is far less significant.

Foggy Bottom Drive Loop

FLORRISANT, Mo.—I walked the Foggy Bottom Drive Loop this morning in 38:01, and was able to find a gate that was nearly pain-free. My left groin, and perhaps hip, are definitely adding a hitch. I imagine I'm walking a bit like Tim Cooper, pre-hip surgery.

Foggy Bottom Drive Loop

FLORRISANT, Mo.—I walked the Foggy Bottom Drive Loop this afternoon in 37:20, just before Jim and I joined John to watch the Cardinals beat the crap out of the Reds. I'm kind of fucked up, physically, I mean. My left foot, ankle, and groin hurt. I'm limping pretty good, though it gets better after a while. We'll see what happens tomorrow. I would say my five-year streak is in jeopardy. And this just a day after a guy gave me a free pass into the Bartlett Park Ultras (near Memphis) for two weeks from this weekend.

Maple Street Loop

I walked the Maple Street Loop this morning in 33:01.

Maple Street Loop/Levy Trail

I walked the Maple Street Loop this morning in 30:56. It's muggier than two motherfuckers. This evening I walked two miles on the Levy Trail in 31:50.

35th Street Loop/Park Hill Light

Interesting. It's a degree hotter here than in Corpus Christi, yet the RealFeel® is a degree cooler. Anyway, I sympathize. I hope it's cooler down there tomorrow. I just got in from alternating four-minute walks with one-minute jogs to complete the 35th Street Loop in 52:43, with splits of 13:31, 13:13, 12:54, and 13:05. Tonight, starting at about 8:45, I jogged and walked Park Hill Light in 24:05, with splits of 12:36, and 11:29. Man, I felt good.

Orange Street Loop/Levy Trail

I ran, walked, and jogged the Orange Street Loop this morning in 34:49, sort of doing intervals through the middle mile, when I alternated one-minute runs with one-minute walks. My splits were 12:21, 10:33, and 11:55. Assuming my walks during the intervals were at four miles an hour, I averaged about an eight-minute pace on the six runs. They felt faster than that. My legs feel sharper than they have in a long time, and they still felt fine tonight when I walked two miles on the Levy Trail in 29:59.

Park Hill Light/Maple Street Loop

I walked Park Hill Light this morning in 29:09, and felt great. I got the first, uphill mile in 14:54. Early this evening I walked the Maple Street Loop in 29:37. By the way, I changed this loop to include about a half mile of the Levy Trail. I like it more.

Park Hill Loop/Park Hill Light

I alternated slow, one-minute jogs, with slow, four-minute walks, and still worked to complete the Park Hill Loop in 1:11:36, with splits of 14:06, 14:28, 14:02, 14:48, and 14:12. At 11:10 a.m., it's 87°F in Levy, with a RealFeel® of 90.

It's exactly 90 at 5:20 p.m., but drier, and more comfortable than it was this morning. I just walked a two-mile loop I set last summer, which I then did once, or maybe twice. I can't remember what I called it. Park Hill Light is appropriate. It goes up into Park Hill on Maple, 35th, and F Streets, and comes down on 33rd. I walked it late this afternoon in 31:01.

Levy Loop

I alternated one-minute jogs with four-minute walks to complete the Levy Loop this morning in 25:54. School starts today. There were kids with backpacks all over town. Also, two front yards on Sycamore Street were rolled. That's another thing I think should qualify people for mandatory death sentences. No one would ever roll another house.

Maple Street Loop/Ghetto Cat Loop/Hash

I jogged the Maple Street Loop this morning in 22:25, with splits of 11:14 and 11:11. My legs felt fine, as if I could've continued for another couple of miles, or more. At 6:58 a.m., it's 65°F, but it's starting to feel wet out. My air conditioner is off, but was on yesterday for the first time in three days. It will be on by noon today, I predict.

It wasn't. I walked the Ghetto Cat Loop, beginning at about 2:30 this afternoon, and it was on when I got back home. I walked the loop in 32:02, just to burn some calories before Hash, where I burned some more. We started about a block from Pizza D'Action on Markham, and covered 3.2 miles. It took me 48:48, though it seemed as if I ran quite a bit. Oh well. I'm slow in every essential way.

Levy Loop/35th Street Loop

I walked the Levy Loop this morning in 30:42. Late this afternoon I walked the ol' 35th Street Loop in 1:01:34, with splits of 15:32, 15:10, 15:25, and 15:27.

Orange Street Loop/Maple Street Loop

At 9:40 a.m., it's 69°F in Levy, but now with a hint of moisture missing since Monday evening. Summer's on its way back, due by Tuesday or so. My brow got a bit damp as I walked the Orange Street Loop this morning in 44:31. I played the over-under car game for the first time in at least a year, and hit it right on the number for the second time ever, with ten. The tenth car passed as I turned off 43rd Street onto Orange by the Chiropractic Clinic.

This evening I alternated one-minute jogs with four-minute jogs to complete the Maple Street Loop in 26:24. I felt great.

Levy Trail

This silly fall weather persists. I walked two miles on the Levy Trail this evening in 30:21.

OVERHEARD
"To use an old cliche, we all know that repetition is the mother of invention."
—analyst for the Carolina Panthers, during the third quarter of Carolina's game with the Baltimore Ravens

Orange Street Loop

I walked and jogged the Orange Street Loop this morning in 43:07. At 10:26 a.m., it's 76°F, breezy, and dry as a Triscuit®. Levy feels like Limon. My air conditioner is off, the windows are open, and I plan to unfold a quilt tonight. They say the low will be 58.

Camp Clearfork/Levy Trail/Levy Trail

CRYSTAL SPRINGS, Ark.—I walked and jogged for 34:33 on Friday night at Camp Clearfork. On Saturday I walked for 44:17, and at lunchtime on Sunday I did the Hangover Hash in 49:31. It took that long to cover 1.7 miles. After a two-hour break, I walked for an additional ten minutes. I walked two miles on the Levy Trail on Monday afternoon in 33:30, and on Tuesday morning in 30:53.

OVERHEARD
"I got my balls in these Razorback pants. I'm wearing a shirt. I'm fine."
—John Kelley, late Saturday night at Camp Clearfork, after someone asked if was OK. It appeared he might fall over any second. He wore white sweatpants with tiny red Razorbacks printed all over them

Levy Trail

I walked and jogged three miles on the Levy Trail tonight in 42:56.

Maple Street Loop/Levy Trail Loop

I walked the Maple Street Loop last night in 33:20. This morning I walked the two-mile Levy Trail Loop in 29:24. It's shitty out there. I'm soaked.

Levy Trail

I walked and jogged three miles on the Levy Trail tonight in 40:16. It's so humid. I fully expect to see palm trees and monkeys here by the end of the week.

Maple Street Loop/Hash

I'm better. Yesterday I ate two peanut butter sandwiches, and nothing else but a salad, and fruit—blueberries, strawberries, grapefruit, pineapple, applesauce, oranges, and watermelon. I walked the Maple Street Loop at lunchtime today in 31:58. Late this afternoon, during perhaps the muggiest minutes of the summer, I walked for 39:32 with the Tom Zaloudek at Hot Tit Love's Hash run. Afterward I had to do a down-down for not knowing that "pitched a tent" means "achieved an erection." I can't explain why I thought it meant "pitched a tent."

Levy Loop

I have a cold, or maybe even a mild case of the flu. I'm hacking, sneezing, and have waked up with a sore throat the last three days. I think I have a little bit of a fever. Nevertheless, I walked the Levy Loop this afternoon in 34:33.

INTERNET FIND OF THE DAY
This was found at sports-board.net. I was trying to find out what happened to Francisco Cabrera

Re: Why I like baseball:

This thread has reminded me of the greatest game I ever attended. It was 2001, I'd recently got married and moved to the Los Angeles area. The wife and I went down to San Diego to catch a Cards/Pads game. In Qualcom in those days, on monday games, SD would have $5 tickets for any tickets in the park, and either $1 or $2 hot dogs and beer. We went down early that day and got seats on the 3rd base side of homeplate about 15 rows from the field. Spectacular seats for $5 each! 6th inning or so comes around and I start to notice that Bud Smith has not given up a hit yet. An inning later, the Padre fans around me start to notice and talking to me about it and start almost rooting me along as if I'm a part of the Cards team. Well, everybody knows the outcome from there. Bud got the no-hitter and all the Padre fans around me were shaking my hand and congratulating ME! I don't know that you'll ever get that kind of experience watching any other sport... and this is a perfect example of how sometimes history and the game itself is much larger than any individual team. Fans coming together to celebrate history no matter their allegiances... that's baseball.

Levy Trail

I walked and jogged three miles on the Levy Trail tonight in 42:12. It is as muggy as it's been this summer.

Levy Trail Loop

I walked two miles on the Levy Trail Loop this morning in 30:31. Bobby Vint, one of my across-the-street neighbors, pulled into his driveway and walked over to my house just as I finished, so that he could give me hell about how badly the Pittsburgh Pirates have been beating up on the Cardinals. "No, Coach, I'm a Reds fan. I hate the Cardinals."
He said, "Oh, shit. I've been telling everybody your a Cardinals fan." Fuck.