Monday, September 27, 2010

52 weeks in the foothills: week 39

Whoosh.  Some kind of charge crackles through  the powerlines overhead.  The thunder rolls quickly after that.  Yup, time to turn around.  This week's run in the Timpanogos foothills was short, very short.  I had 1 hour this week to run and that hour happened to be during a lightening storm.  Long time readers (mostly my Mom and siblings :) ) will recall that I'm a little skittish about lightening these days.  Fortunately this week also included a  run in the Hollywood hills around the LA planetarium (ok, I only ran 15 yards and that was just so  I could say I ran in the Hollywood hills this week).  The trail was huge.  About the size of what we'd call a two lane farm road out here in the country.  Did see a few other runners and heard about 4 foreign languages.  

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Wednesday, September 22, 2010

52 weeks in the foothills: week 38

Fall leaves are turning. Shouldn't be long before all the trees are in color

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Saturday, September 11, 2010

52 weeks in the foothills: week 37

Generally sunny, warm and kind of nice this week. Look closely in the
higher foothills for fall leaves. Got out on the bike this time
rather than running. The little sprints up some of the single track
were a bit much, but only in one spot. Interestingly, I was only
about 5 minutes faster on bike than on foot. Going up it was about
the same.

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Thursday, September 09, 2010

52 weeks in the foothills: week 36

Feeling pretty unmotivated to post these. Foothills look much last
last week, last month or pretty much any other time in late summer.
But I did notice for this week that the leaves are starting to turn up
high. Doubt I'll get that high this week but at least there will be
some change. Summer is really long and static. Winter is long too
but the snow is contanstly changing. I have to say that summer was
definitely my least favorite season in the foothills.

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