Archive for the ‘Outdoors’ Category
Wednesday, June 29th, 2005
When I first showed up in California in September of 2003, I started to take note of the similarities and differences between California and my old home of 22+ years, Texas. The food is reasonably similar (the Tex-Mex and traditional Californian cuisine being the two big differences), and I surmised ...
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Monday, June 20th, 2005
Another installment of the Nike run series took place this evening, and I again was able to successfully complete the three mile run in the eleven to eleven and a half minute per mile pace group. In fact, I was feeling good enough near the end of the run that ...
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Tuesday, June 14th, 2005
Greg, Mike, Suvir, Michelle, Heather, Ariele and I went to the second installment of this summer's Nike run last night, and I reached a personal milestone. I ran three miles consecutively. Please, hold your applause. This may be no big deal for some people, but I have never run more ...
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Tuesday, June 7th, 2005
Ariele rounded up quite a crew (of which I was a member) to go to this evening's Nike run, and I have declared it an unequivocal success. Ariele, Bert, and Mike ran in the nine to nine and a half minute per mile pace group for a total of three ...
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Sunday, May 1st, 2005
Millikan is the big library here on the Caltech campus, and directly to the eastern side of Millikan lies a rectangular pond, maybe 40 feet by 20 feet in size and about a foot in depth. Ariele and I were eating lunch today while sitting on the westward facing bench, ...
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Tuesday, March 22nd, 2005
It started pouring rain today (yet again), but it makes me happy that Ariele and I were able to drive up to the top of Mount Wilson on Sunday when it was nice and sunny outside. The sky was reasonably clear when we left, but by the time we got ...
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