SO LONG 2012...
Monday, December 31, 2012
2012 Activity Totals
RUN 648.2
RIDE 1013.8 mi
SNOWSHOE 37.7 mi
HIKE/WALK 522.5 mi
PADDLE 19.7 mi
XC SKI 3.1 mi
DAYS OUTDOORS 295/365
2012 Event Totals
38 races/events -
4 snowshoe races
20 trail races
7 road races
4 duathlons
2 paddle triathlons
1 fundraising ride
Run 289.9 mi, 71 hr 20 min
Bike 147.1 mi, 13 hr 34 min
Snowshoe 17.3 mi, 4 hr 24 min
Kayak 4.5 mi, 1 hr 23 min
states visited: CT, MA, ME, NH, NJ, NY, OH, PA, RI, VT
Sunday, December 30, 2012
Saturday, December 29, 2012
Friday, December 28, 2012
Thursday, December 27, 2012
Wednesday, December 26, 2012
Monday, December 24, 2012
WHAT NEXT?!!!!
Monday, December 24, 2012
Actually, I'm not sure I want to know the answer to that question, because the incident that prompted it is pretty horrible.
Apparently very early this morning volunteer firefighters in Webster (just east of Rochester) responded to a house fire and found themselves being shot at. Two are dead, two more are in the hospital, and seven houses were destroyed in the blaze that resulted while the scene was being secured by police.
Current information is that the man who lived in the house set an ambush for the first responders to the fire, traded gunfire with the police when they arrived, and finally shot himself. He had a pretty serious criminal record (17 years in prison for murdering his grandmother back in 1980) but had apparently stayed out of trouble after being released in 1998.
First teachers and elementary school children, now firefighters who had gotten out of bed early in the morning to (they thought) help someone in their community. Ann is a volunteer firefighter and EMT - she could be the one being shot by some whackjob like this bastard.
I understand that the people who do stuff like this have serious mental problems, but do they have to share their pain and misery with others when they decide to end their lives?
JMH
Monday, December 24, 2012
Actually, I'm not sure I want to know the answer to that question, because the incident that prompted it is pretty horrible.
Apparently very early this morning volunteer firefighters in Webster (just east of Rochester) responded to a house fire and found themselves being shot at. Two are dead, two more are in the hospital, and seven houses were destroyed in the blaze that resulted while the scene was being secured by police.
Current information is that the man who lived in the house set an ambush for the first responders to the fire, traded gunfire with the police when they arrived, and finally shot himself. He had a pretty serious criminal record (17 years in prison for murdering his grandmother back in 1980) but had apparently stayed out of trouble after being released in 1998.
First teachers and elementary school children, now firefighters who had gotten out of bed early in the morning to (they thought) help someone in their community. Ann is a volunteer firefighter and EMT - she could be the one being shot by some whackjob like this bastard.
I understand that the people who do stuff like this have serious mental problems, but do they have to share their pain and misery with others when they decide to end their lives?
JMH
Sunday, December 23, 2012
Friday, December 21, 2012
WELCOME WINTER SOLSTICE 2012!
Friday, December 21, 2012
No great surprise, the world didn't end this morning, despite the histrionics of fools mixing a misunderstanding of ancient Mayan calendar cycles with what one expert interviewed referred to as a need to periodically find something to freak out about. And since the world is still here we get one of my favorite days of the year, the winter solstice.
Astronomically, it's the day the Earth is closest to the Sun and, due to the tilt of the Earth's rotational axis, the day in the northern hemisphere which has the least number of hours of daylight. Historically it has been a day which is celebrated for a variety of reasons.
Me, I just like the fact that from here on out for the next six months we'll gain a couple minutes of daylight each day, so that in a month or two I'll actually be able to go outside after work and walk, run, snowshoe, ski, or ride using natural light rather than the light of a headlamp (or no light at all.)
Bring on the daylight!
JMH
Friday, December 21, 2012
No great surprise, the world didn't end this morning, despite the histrionics of fools mixing a misunderstanding of ancient Mayan calendar cycles with what one expert interviewed referred to as a need to periodically find something to freak out about. And since the world is still here we get one of my favorite days of the year, the winter solstice.
Astronomically, it's the day the Earth is closest to the Sun and, due to the tilt of the Earth's rotational axis, the day in the northern hemisphere which has the least number of hours of daylight. Historically it has been a day which is celebrated for a variety of reasons.
Me, I just like the fact that from here on out for the next six months we'll gain a couple minutes of daylight each day, so that in a month or two I'll actually be able to go outside after work and walk, run, snowshoe, ski, or ride using natural light rather than the light of a headlamp (or no light at all.)
Bring on the daylight!
JMH
Sunday, December 16, 2012
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