My precinct in Evanston was horribly organized. I got to the polling site at about 5:45 am for a 6am opening and was ~20th in line. Doors didn’t open until about 6:20, then I didn’t vote until 7am because there was a problem with my precinct’s voting room.  It made me pine for the quiet competence annually exhibited at the Bach School in Ann Arbor ( Read more... )

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4 miles with credjeep out on the Ann Arbor sidewalks tonight, meaning 20 miles for the week (4 Su, 3 Mo, 4 Tu, 0 We, 3 Thu, 2 Fri, 4 Sat), meaning now I've got to keep it up for another week for my most awesome fortnight of running since late summer of 2002.

3 miles yesterday, another 4 today. I've been hoping this sojourn in Ann Arbor would be somewhat more active than life in Evanston, and it was going pretty well. Then I went to a meeting of history grad students, several of whom I hadn't seen for 6 months to 2 years. EVERYBODY had put on weight, and some quite a bit. It scared me enough to ( Read more... )

My wife and I were googling around for films to see this weekend, when
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Total running in the last 7 days: 20.25 miles.  This is my first twenty mile week in...*carry the 2*...*remainder*...maybe 5 years.

As I note all the time to anyone who will listen (usually my captive wife,
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Did that route back from Hyde Park (plus about 8 miles on the way there) once more yesterday, but I popped a couple spokes near the end.  D'oh.  Looks like I haven't been taking care of my bike.

Problem fixed today and my bike seems to be in better shape than it has been for a while.

Now knowing what I was getting into, I took did the "bike-back-from-UofC" thing again.  I didn't detour out to the lakefront bike path this time and kept heading north on Broadway.  All told, an hour and forty-five minutes despite heat in the high 80s.  Tomorrow it will be in the 70s and I'mo do it again.  When I lived in DC I loved biking into ( Read more... )

Heading out the door of my Evanston apartment this morning, I had the brilliant idea that I would bring my bike with me to Hyde Park (a looong ways away) on the El and bike back.  About 18 miles and more than two hours on the bike later, I realize I should have checked some kind of map before making such a rash decision.

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