FYI: Kent says hi.
I am in Atlanta, which doesn’t feel that much different than Houston. Sunny. Hot. Humid. I went for a run this morning — after much internal debate, since today is really supposed to be my biking day, but Carter only has a mountain bike, and a 100-year-old fan exercise bike where the seat doesn’t feel right, and I couldn’t get over to Kent’s exercise room, sooooo I thought about not doing anything, and sat around for a while, but finally realized that if I didn’t at least go running, it would nag at me for the rest of the day. And it would have!
So I went running around 9:45. Carter lives in the greatest location for running, and I was able to run on the crushed gravel trail along the banks of the Chattahoochee River. Since my biking workout was scheduled to be a 25-mile ride, which would’ve taken me about an hour and a half, I decided to run for two-thirds of that — an hour. The trail is marked, but I started at Carter’s condo instead so I had no idea how far I was running. I guessed about 5.5 miles, and when I Google mapped it a moment ago, it turns out that I was pretty close — 5.42 miles. Not bad at all, and I felt good for almost the whole run, until the end when I started to get a little overheated.
On Tuesday, the Peachtree! Think I can keep up with Sean Wade? 😉
Just saw that we scrubbed the second shuttle launch attempt and will try again on the 4th. Cross your fingers, everybody!
Donna says
Is the launch going to be in Houston or Florida?
Jon Walk says
Were you singing Alan Jackson’s “Way down yonder on the Chattahoochee, it gets hotter than …” while you were running?
Donna says
Yeah, my husband informed me I’m an idiot. Like someone asking you how far this one marathon is. Duhh 🙂 Sorry 🙂
Me says
No worries Donna, it’s actually a mistake a lot of people make! But nope, we’ve never launched from Houston, always from Florida. That way we launch over the ocean and don’t put any of the population at risk.
Nicholas says
Yeah, but that’s the civilian shuttle. The top secret military shuttle launches out of Astroworld 🙂
(BTW – I’m not making fun of Donna, I’m making a West Wing reference)
Donna says
A photog friend of mine who lives in Florida got some realy cool shots of the launch from her backyard!
Becca says
Ooh, the super-secret-DoD-space shuttle. I bet it launches from a missile silo in North Dakota! The world will never know…
Hi Kent!