Ride 29, Mon July 2nd, 9:40am, Heritage Trail and Canal Path loop x 2, 6.4 miles, 45 mins, with Charlie and Leslie, 7:02 pace, 8.53 mph, 90F 32C 45% 77DP, failed to start our apps. This spot was under two or three feet of rushing water a week earlier.
Friends
Biking Mount Vernon to Gravelly Point & back
Ate our sandwiches at the foot of the National Airport runway, with the 14th Street Bridge, Jefferson Memorial, and Washington Monument behind us (but somehow failed to get a plane taking off into the frame).
Drinking lunch on the Blue Ridge
At the Fox Meadow Winery, Linden, Virginia, with our friends Jim Charest and Linda Beville. It may be way up in the mountains, but the winery is not short of neighbors, hidden away in the trees:
Jan and Marty at Harwill
Our Pittsburgh/Niagara trip
Wilton Woods to Huntley Meadows Park and back
At the half-way point of our six-miler on my final day at work. Mario V. in red, Peter F. in black. There was a great blue heron standing to the left of the beaver lodge but he must have been too shy to smile for the selfie. 92F, 33C, 70%RH, 81DP, 114HI. Some of us took some walking breaks on the way back.
Retirement lunch at Paradiso
Tim M, Mike F, Matt M, Bethany, Maya K, Bonnie I, Tariq, Sayantan, Jaye, Edwin, Jeff, Mike B, Teresa, Peggy, Shah T, Keith W, and seated Susan, Randy, Lindsay.
Dawn C, Cathy C, Tim M, Mike F, Matt, Bethany, Maya, Bonnie, Tariq, Sayantan, Jaye, Edwin, Jeff, Mike B, Teresa, Peggy, Shah, and (front, seated) Susan N, Randy K, Lindsay. Keith W was behind Shah.
Losing my lunchtime running buddy at end of next month
Survivors of two consecutive 5km lunchtime runs with temperature at 95F/35C.
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PF achieved a major midlife triumph last month upon acquisition of the Mazda Miata.
With Ed, Loretta, and Amber
With Ed, Loretta, and Amber, at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond. Those are the Chuhuly Red Reeds (see story), as also seen in 2010 at the Kennedy Center. The Robinson House is beyond.
Play ball!
Nationals 3, Mets 2
The winning final moments of the Washington Nationals/New York Mets baseball game Tuesday night. Charlie says he can just make out the ball, a tiny white smudge beyond third base. It does look as though there’s an outfielder starting to run in that direction, but I can tell you it didn’t do him any good. See the next day’s Washington Post game report. This was my first time at a major league baseball game, thanks to my sports fan friends who took me along. What fun! I took the picture with my cell phone.