Tuesday, April 19, 2005

Something a Little Shorter, Just to Stay Loose

Wanted to get out and go, after a bit of a longish day. I took a route similar to yesterday, but instead of Cresent Drive and 10th Street, I headed down the path under The Stairs, on to the foot bridge across Memorial Drive and straight west until 14th. Across the 14th Street bridge and back along the river to Centre Street and home. And this was a straight run - no intervals.

Gotta say, I'm getting to love this route. There's a fun energy along the river paths when it's full of people like that. And lots of people, doing everything - biking, blading walking, running, sitting and just generally hanging out.

A bit of an annoyance - the GPS took a long time to find itself, and then by the look of the data I downloaded, it got lost just before I got to the Centre Street bridge, so I don't know how accurate the data is. It kept losing the GPS signal all along the south side of the river, too. Don't know what's up with that, as the trees are only along one side of the path, and they don't really overhang. They don't even have leaves on them yet, so I wouldn't think that would screen the thing that much.

On that note, and for what it's worth...

Today's run:
Distance: 7.40 km. Time: 42:37. Speed: 10.4 kph.

Weather: Sunny and 14C. Just beautiful out, not a cloud in the sky, and clear all the way to that mountain encrusted horizon.

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