Sunday, 4 June 2006

gym

Stairmaster, 15' @ 68 steps per minute; elliptical, 15' @ 20/20 incline and level 11, 130 strides per minute. Hard cardio work that doesn't slaughter my knees: excellent.

Swim 800 meters: I guess I've never gone at this time to learn that at 6 p.m. on Sundays, most of the pool is dedicated to water polo.

perfect summer day

This is how to manage a 90+ day in Denver: after breakfast, start in the back yard and work until it gets too hot, then in the front (west) yard until it gets too hot, and at noon, make a smoothie and read on the swing until the sun reaches that far into the porch. At that point, around 2, either work in the house or take the book into the backyard in the shade of the neighbor's tree. Later in the afternoon, when the sun has freed itself from that tree and hasn't entangled itself in the big silver maple across the street to spare the porch swing, go to the gym. Return in time to tote camp chairs and a picnic dinner to the park for the weekly jazz concert in the warm dusk.