Today Daniel and I rode twenty-eight miles north along Parmer Lane. What a great ride–the temperature was in the mid seventies, with almost no wind. We started from the Avery Ranch subdivision shortly after seven AM and we rode for about two hours, only stopping at stop lights and when we turned around to head […]
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Daniel, Stan and I rode about nineteen miles at the Veloway this evening and it was hot! The hottest ride of the season, about one hundred degrees Fahrenheit at the start, according to Motionbased. Here is the Motionbased report:
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Daniel and I ran at Bull Creek Greenbelt this evening. We started at a new location in a small parking lot at the intersection of Spicewood Springs Road and Old Spicewood Springs Road. The trail was beautiful. We took a single track trail up along the tops of the cliffs. Occasionally we could get a
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The Margutti children, from left to right: Elisabeth, born 1886 Victor, born 1889 Louis, born 1885 These names and dates are noted on the back of the photograph, as well as the date in French, “July 1900.” The picture was taken in Melun, France. Laure Chartrey Margutti with young Victor, in Trieste, Italy The back
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This week we have been enjoying a lovely visit from a designer friend of Larissa’s, who has turned our family room into an atelier, complete with busy sewing machine, lowly assistants (Larissa and her mom) and yards of silk organza. Today the bridal gown is taking its final shape. This is a big thank-you to
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Today I came in first in my age group (60+). Yippee! My very first Du and to be able to pull this off. Yippee! Guess all my running and biking has trained me better than I thought. Now I need to start planning and training for bigger and better duathlons. This one was a small
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This evening I ran three and three quarters miles. It wasn’t as hot nor as windy as the night before, but it was still pretty warm: about ninety-three degrees. I ran to the south end of the Highland Mall parking lot, then ran along Guadalupe Street to T.A. Brown Park, and returned home. I was
Last night James, Daniel and I went for a bicycle ride at the Veloway. The temperature was near one hundred with a brisk wind out of the south. Earlier in the week Daniel and I decided to go to the Dad’s Day Du in Leander, TX. This will be our first duathelon so we wanted
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This evening Daniel and I decided to run at Bull Creek District Park. It is a little further from work than the Barton Creek Greenbelt, where we usually run, but I have heard so much about the trail that I still wanted to do it. The Hill Country Trail Runners used to have a Sunday
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This morning I went out for a bike ride to the river and back. I wanted to explore new routes to downtown for several reasons: 1) I want to be able to get down to the river to run early in the morning. I really don’t want to drive a vehicle down to the river
I ran two and a half miles this evening using the new route. It was hot and windy; not quite as windy as the previous few days but still windy. For some reason Motionbased is down so I can not upload my run. I will do it later. Finally at 10 PM I was able
This evening Daniel and I did a hot and windy ride at the Veloway. It was 97 degrees when we arrived and Daniel said that he’d heard that the winds were gusting to 35 MPH. As a side note; Daniel and I are planning to ride the ACA Ride Saturday morning along Parmer Lane, the
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Friday evening I ran for about five miles, burning about 651 calories. Then on Saturday I rode the Cannondale bike down to the ARC meeting in the city hall complex (we actually met at the Fit City space in the complex). They elected new officers and gave out the awards for the Spring Sprint Series.
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