Training Log Archive: jtorranc

Easy run in Rock Creek Park. Vast number of canines and their human escorts. Also a few unaccompanied feral humans.

Cycling to and from more films (sublime entry - Three Women - in the current Iranian series at the Freer and two more Manhattan-centered entries in the Beat series at the NGA) on the fringes of the Mall. The main action was west of the Washington Monument, though some of the overflow from that was watching the concert on the Jumbotrons set up for the inauguration as I biked from the Freer to the NGA. Still, the Mall and surroundings were busy in a way unprecedented in my experience other than on the Fourth of July. Many police directing traffic in the streets north and east of the White House and Freedom Plaza. Witnessed one carful of people asking a police officer how to get to 12th and Independence WHILE executing a left turn. Heaven help us if more than a handful of the people coming to town on Monday evening and Tuesday morning are that ill-prepared.

Miscellaneous utilitarian cycling as I went to Georgetown and back then to the pool and the National Gallery of Art to see a bunch of films from the American avant-garde/Beat of the late 50s and early 60s.

Gave up on Hungarian lessons on entering the pool and finding one third of it taken up with a youth swim meet - Beethoven (good thing I put the fourth movement of his ninth symphony on my MP3 player) and Stravinsky were a lot easier to follow than ordinary conversational tones and suffered less when drowned out by cheering for short periods.

Commute plus trip to the Kennedy Center to see the Limon Dance Company. A genuinely, not just by DC standards, cold day, though nothing extraordinary to anyone living in the snow belt.

Cycling commute, including grocery shopping at TPSS on the way home.

Run home through Rock Creek Park. Saw a fox uphill of me while on the Valley Trail near the end of the run. Also what I believe was just a cat within a few minutes of home. Fell three times, fortunately on smooth, unrocky sections of trail which I wasn't treating with the same degree of caution the gnarlier trail sections merit.

Cycling commute, by way of the aquatic center on the way home.

Flutterkicking while relistening to Hungarian Lesson 5.

The balance of the pool time until they closed half an hour early because they had a bulkhead to move. Hungarian Lesson 6, some Shostakovich and the first several minutes of Hungarian Lesson 7.

Cycling commute, incl grocery shopping on the way home.