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Tuesday Oct 7, 2014 #
2 PM
Run 37:00 [3] 6.0 km (6:10 / km)
Early afternoon excursion with feet around the East Rock park in New Haven (a regular running haunt of his - as the name implies, an old glacial hill 100 metres or so above the valley, with some beginning-to-fall leaves and roughish tracks underfoot). Nice setting for a run but I wasn't really up to the job today, a bit stiff in the back after the long flight (and perhaps also a little close to lunch). Good to catch up with the newly expanded family (except for TinyFeet, who was at daycare).
It was a day with a rather hectic social calendar, as my evening stop was in Rhode Island with an old school friend I hadn't seen since WOC 1993. (There were quite a few US embassy families at my school, meaning I had quite a contacts list in the Washington DC area for a while. Definitely good to catch up (and the four-year-old of the house is definitely the son of his father).
While it mostly isn't too challenging, there are a few things about US driving which take a bit of getting used to, especially the fact that freeway speed limits are taken as a suggestion only - if you do 65 miles an hour in a 55 zone, you will still be moving more slowly than the majority of the traffic. (Driving consistently 10 mph/15 kmh over the limit in Australia would probably have collected you enough tickets to have lost your licence by the end of the first week).
Heading up into New Hampshire next, hoping the weather (with heavy rain forecast overnight) will clear in time for a Pawtuckaway run and mountain views further north.
It was a day with a rather hectic social calendar, as my evening stop was in Rhode Island with an old school friend I hadn't seen since WOC 1993. (There were quite a few US embassy families at my school, meaning I had quite a contacts list in the Washington DC area for a while. Definitely good to catch up (and the four-year-old of the house is definitely the son of his father).
While it mostly isn't too challenging, there are a few things about US driving which take a bit of getting used to, especially the fact that freeway speed limits are taken as a suggestion only - if you do 65 miles an hour in a 55 zone, you will still be moving more slowly than the majority of the traffic. (Driving consistently 10 mph/15 kmh over the limit in Australia would probably have collected you enough tickets to have lost your licence by the end of the first week).
Heading up into New Hampshire next, hoping the weather (with heavy rain forecast overnight) will clear in time for a Pawtuckaway run and mountain views further north.