Sunday, 30 January 2005

gym

Precor Elliptical, 30' @ 12/20 resistance and 20/20 incline; only 3700+ strides and 400 calories, 123+ spm. So I didn't push there but I did 10' on the stairmill, 68 steps per minute. I do like that the stairmill sets a pace that you are obliged to keep up with.

Then 100 crunches on the second angle, and I did some abdominal stuff on the TotalGym at home before. And I tried that abdominal exercise where you support your weight on your back and your forearms and raise your legs and, shockingly, I could do five. I could have done more but not raising my legs as high: my measure was to see, in the mirror across the way, the soles of my sneakers cross the waist of my shorts.

things to do in denver

I bought a 5280 whose cover proclaimed 101 things you've got to do in Denver. Six of the first 10 are not in Denver: getting traffic-jammed along I-70, seeing Blues Traveler at Red Rocks (officially part of the Denver Parks System, like Winter Park ski mountain), singing "America the Beautiful" atop Pikes Peak, attending a show at Chautauqua Auditorium (in Boulder), visiting a dude ranch, and riding the Georgetown rail loop. I still haven't been to Pikes Peak.

I've done a lot of the suggestions, but not all. I haven't seen Cleo Parker Robinson Dance or eaten at the Fort. I wouldn't kayak Confluence Park (if I could) unless by personality transplant my cuticles weren't ripped up and I could seal off the seven holes in my head and boil myself in disinfectant immediately afterward and ick. I have intended to find Mork and Mindy's house since before I moved here.

We are having our traditional Sunday night television gape-a-thon and something in "CBS Sunday Morning" reminded me of an omission from this list. RDC mocked my mocking so much of the list being from the Denver metro area instead of strictly obeying its own headline, but if I must accept crossing Trail Ridge Road as something to do in Denver, then the magazine should accept that it omitted something major. This week's penultimate story was narrated by Bill Geist, whom I usually fast-forward through: visiting Nederland's Dead Guy and participating in Dead Guy Days. That's an omission.