Progress....

Best 5k time =
50:39 (Panther Creek State Park, Morristown, TN)
50:25 (Spanish Springs, NV)
47:16 (Knoxville, TN - Jingle Bell Run for Arthritis, 12/11/10)
46:29 (Knoxville Track Club, New Year's Day Run, 2011)

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Total number of miles on first bike trip = 3,550
Visited: Morristown, TN; Chicago, IL; Thunder Bay, ON; Winnipeg, MB; Williston, ND; Billings, MT; West Yellowstone, MT; Ashley, ID; Jackson Hole, WY; Cokeville, WY; Ogden, UT; Draper, UT; Elko, NV; Spanish Springs, NV.

Weight lost since September 14, 2011: 8.0 pounds

Current trip: 310 miles
Neah Bay, WA; Beaver, OR.

Wednesday, June 16, 2010

Cub scouts, weather, and only in these parts



Rode 20 miles to Kisbey, Saskatchewan. Just shy of Forget, Saskatchewan. See the map above. Forget, Saskatchewan. I say amen to that. No offense to the Saskatchewanians. The Saskatchewanish. Whatever.

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I got asked a couple months ago to teach 50 cub scouts in Abingdon, VA about weather for their belts. Great! I love doing that. It's going to be held at the Harry L. Coomes Recreation Center in town. Nice place. Lots to do in Abingdon. Martha Washington spent time there growing up. The Martha Washington Inn is wonderful place to eat, expensive, but outstanding. The Barter Theatre is there, with a different play every night. People come from all over North America and Europe with season tickets.

We had a room, the lady in charge of the cubs said to me two months ago, in the recreation center. I called her today to finalize things and she informed me that the room had been taken away from them and so we are meeting, fifty cub scouts, their parents, leaders, and me, under an awning attached to the side of the building next to an outlet. I guess so that, besides melting in the heat and humidity at 5:30 pm, we can also be more easily rained on and struck by lightning with the metal roof and electricity.

I'll shut it down, I swear I will. "Here's your first lesson boys: adults are stupid. Now go get inside the building."

2 comments:

Cindy said...

Yippee for Brian he lost 12 lbs this week!!! I'm so proud of him!! Good job and here are some more exclamation points for Jamee just to prove it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Boppa Poopy said...

And Cindy lost 1.5 pounds, which is outstanding for her tiny self. She is past her plateau. I have such a sexy wife. (That was just to gross out her children...)