tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-226151692024-03-13T02:21:53.020-04:00Cold DuckKalte Ende. Odds and ends from random verbal scoots written indoors when I'd much rather be enjoying the Adirondacks outdoors.Michael M.http://www.blogger.com/profile/01752594030608428250noreply@blogger.comBlogger141125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22615169.post-17053041297474840422024-01-09T20:52:00.000-05:002024-01-09T20:52:32.981-05:00Josh Allen is to Football...<p><span style="font-family: verdana;"> ...what Phil "The Thrill" Mickelson is to golf.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">"Hold my beer. I got this."</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/JiYW9KWBAek" width="320" youtube-src-id="JiYW9KWBAek"></iframe></div><br /><p><br /></p>Michael M.http://www.blogger.com/profile/01752594030608428250noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22615169.post-79241617351404765202023-12-14T08:34:00.001-05:002023-12-14T08:34:39.542-05:00The Rocket City Marathon in Huntsville, AL on 12/14/1991<p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"> (I started writing about Nancy Mieszczak’s 32-year-old races back in 2010. I thought they’d been too much fun to be enjoyed just once; and, maybe just a little bit, I wanted to show The Kids how the Old Folks used to roll back in the days of yore. Anyways, I initially crammed a bunch of her races into one continuing post. Lately I’ve been writing them up one by one. If you’re interested, you can start from the beginning here.)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>Distance:</b> 26.2 MI<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>Time:</b> 2:57:31<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>Place:</b> 2<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>Prize:</b> $500<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">∑ <b>Career Earnings:</b> $26,979<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>The Skinny:</b> Nancy Hutchison won. Race Director Harold Tinsley always treated us very well.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Coming next time: The Elizabeth River Run on May 2, 1992</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>Michael M.http://www.blogger.com/profile/01752594030608428250noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22615169.post-85215343551138476792023-11-02T09:06:00.000-04:002023-11-02T09:06:22.239-04:00The Tulsa 15 KM Run on 11/2/1991<p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"> (I started writing about Nancy Mieszczak’s 32-year-old races back in 2010. I thought they’d been too much fun to be enjoyed just once; and, maybe just a little bit, I wanted to show The Kids how the Old Folks used to roll back in the days of yore. Anyways, I initially crammed a bunch of her races into one continuing post. Lately I’ve been writing them up one by one. If you’re interested, you can start from the beginning <a href="http://colduck.blogspot.com/2016/05/on-road-again-32-years-later.html">here</a>.)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>Distance:</b> 9.321 MI<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>Time:</b> 0:57:09<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>Place:</b> 2<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>Prize:</b> $375<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">∑ <b>Career Earnings:</b> $26,479<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>The Skinny:</b> Nancy Hutchison won.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Coming next time: Rocket City Marathon on 12/14/1991</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>Michael M.http://www.blogger.com/profile/01752594030608428250noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22615169.post-21639152039698271112023-10-13T09:09:00.000-04:002023-10-13T09:09:22.849-04:00Dayton River Corridor Run in Dayton, OH on 10/13/1991<p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"> (I started writing about Nancy Mieszczak’s 32-year-old races back in 2010. I thought they’d been too much fun to be enjoyed just once; and, maybe just a little bit, I wanted to show The Kids how the Old Folks used to roll back in the days of yore. Anyways, I initially crammed a bunch of her races into one continuing post. Lately I’ve been writing them up one by one. If you’re interested, you can start from the beginning <a href="http://colduck.blogspot.com/2016/05/on-road-again-32-years-later.html">here</a>.)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>Distance:</b> 13.1 MI<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>Time:</b> 1:23:07<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>Place:</b> 1<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>Prize:</b> $800<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">∑ <b>Career Earnings:</b> $26,104<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>The Skinny:</b> Details seem to have vanished in a memory hole.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Coming next time: The Tulsa 15 KM Run on 11/2/1991</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>Michael M.http://www.blogger.com/profile/01752594030608428250noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22615169.post-74779153168637180162023-05-19T07:51:00.000-04:002023-05-19T07:51:41.185-04:00REVCO 10 KM in Cleveland, OH on 5/19/1991<p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"> (I started writing about Nancy Mieszczak’s 32-year-old races back in 2010. I thought they’d been too much fun to be enjoyed just once; and, maybe just a little bit, I wanted to show The Kids how the Old Folks used to roll back in the days of yore. Anyways, I initially crammed a bunch of her races into one continuing post. Lately I’ve been writing them up one by one. If you’re interested, you can start from the beginning <a href="http://colduck.blogspot.com/2016/05/on-road-again-32-years-later.html">here</a>.)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>Distance:</b> 10 KM<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>Time:</b> -36:21<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>Place:</b> 2<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>Prize:</b> $350<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">∑ <b>Career Earnings:</b> $25,079<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>The Skinny:</b> Priscilla Welch won.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Coming next time: Dayton River Corridor Classic on 10/13/1991</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>Michael M.http://www.blogger.com/profile/01752594030608428250noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22615169.post-29623762529297993132023-05-04T08:53:00.000-04:002023-05-04T08:53:21.611-04:00Elizabeth River 10 KM Run in Norfolk, VA on 5/4/1991<p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"> (I started writing about Nancy Mieszczak’s 32-year-old races back in 2010. I thought they’d been too much fun to be enjoyed just once; and, maybe just a little bit, I wanted to show The Kids how the Old Folks used to roll back in the days of yore. Anyways, I initially crammed a bunch of her races into one continuing post. Lately I’ve been writing them up one by one. If you’re interested, you can start from the beginning <a href="http://colduck.blogspot.com/2016/05/on-road-again-32-years-later.html">here</a>.)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>Distance:</b> 10 KM<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>Time:</b> 36:05<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>Place:</b> 2<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>Prize:</b> $300<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">∑ <b>Career Earnings:</b> $24,729<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>The Skinny:</b> Nancy Grayson won, again.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Coming next time: Revco Classic 10 KM run on 5/19/1991</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>Michael M.http://www.blogger.com/profile/01752594030608428250noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22615169.post-78221480432331683102023-04-14T09:13:00.002-04:002023-04-14T09:13:54.767-04:00Sallie Mae 10 KM in Washington, DC on 4/14/1991<p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"> (I started writing about Nancy Mieszczak’s 32-year-old races back in 2010. I thought they’d been too much fun to be enjoyed just once; and, maybe just a little bit, I wanted to show The Kids how the Old Folks used to roll back in the days of yore. Anyways, I initially crammed a bunch of her races into one continuing post. Lately I’ve been writing them up one by one. If you’re interested, you can start from the beginning <a href=" http://colduck.blogspot.com/2016/05/on-road-again-32-years-later.html">here</a>.)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>Distance:</b> 10 KM<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>Time:</b> -36:10<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>Place:</b> 3<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>Prize:</b> $250<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">∑ <b>Career Earnings:</b> $24,229<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>The Skinny:</b> Nancy Grayson won.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Coming next time: Elizabeth River 10 KM run on 5/4</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>Michael M.http://www.blogger.com/profile/01752594030608428250noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22615169.post-71126149004298850522023-03-16T07:56:00.001-04:002023-03-16T07:56:14.329-04:00Shamrock 8 KM in Virginia Beach, VA on 3/16/1991<p><span style="font-family: verdana;"> <span style="font-size: medium;">(I started writing about Nancy Mieszczak’s 32-year-old races back in 2010. I thought they’d been too much fun to be enjoyed just once; and, maybe just a little bit, I wanted to show The Kids how the Old Folks used to roll back in the days of yore. Anyways, I initially crammed a bunch of her races into one continuing post. Lately I’ve been writing them up one by one. If you’re interested, you can start from the beginning <a href="http://colduck.blogspot.com/2016/05/on-road-again-32-years-later.html">here</a>.)</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>Distance:</b> 8 KM<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>Time:</b> -29:16<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>Place:</b> 3<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>Prize:</b> $200<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">∑ <b>Career Earnings:</b> $23,979<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>The Skinny:</b> Decent payday, considering all expenses were also comp-ed. But I apparently recorded no further details. Nancy spoiled us with some many wins, I guess I wasn’t too interested in a 3<sup>rd</sup>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">But we cashed the check 😉</span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpgwEEm4mMUREsfHPcCFiD67rZe5jpC6_CwLFFlbiOz6gB6DEmgO-pPVOadJ2rir3yNGbY_nwS0CnsPPOVFi1iO5mtcluNfqloy9OtNOfoFJJSYn-Yuald6OY104UY_U145evPR4siNWAPRSgGjUQv2B2cn15ezz3Ce3mpTpGoev7sWbK1dT8/s1728/NEDrace.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1150" data-original-width="1728" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpgwEEm4mMUREsfHPcCFiD67rZe5jpC6_CwLFFlbiOz6gB6DEmgO-pPVOadJ2rir3yNGbY_nwS0CnsPPOVFi1iO5mtcluNfqloy9OtNOfoFJJSYn-Yuald6OY104UY_U145evPR4siNWAPRSgGjUQv2B2cn15ezz3Ce3mpTpGoev7sWbK1dT8/s320/NEDrace.jpeg" width="320" /></span></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Coming next time: Sallie Mae 10 KM on 4/14</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>Michael M.http://www.blogger.com/profile/01752594030608428250noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22615169.post-85763520375572345072023-01-31T20:49:00.000-05:002023-01-31T20:49:15.645-05:00Wondering Whether Winners Never Quit<span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Although born and raised a city boy, I was magnetically drawn to hunting and fishing magazines like “Field and Stream.” But since my dad didn’t grow up a sportsman in the hardscrabble 1930s, my first hunting adventures had to wait until I was older. Meanwhile, I played the sports boys played in the 1960s, and endured my fair share of coaching. Among the hackneyed nuggets passed along to me, one of questionable accuracy has, like crabgrass, been obdurately resilient: “Winners never quit, and quitters never win.”</span><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">I want to see that statement amended.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Late in 2022, I sent my woodcock hunting diary with a note to Ken S. at the <a href="https://grousetales.com">LODGH</a><a href="http://LODGH.">.</a> Part of the note follows:</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">“My 25 year old ‘honey holes’ really showed their age this Fall. Hunting only 23 of NY’s 45-day season, my pup flushed only 16 woodcock. I’ve been loyal – stubborn? – in hunting these old coverts. But I now believe that if I’m to get my pup into birds, I’ll have to search out new coverts…. sad. But it’s necessary.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">I’ve been blessed to have had such good woodcock hunting locally over the last 25 years. So hooray! to the past. But, by Gosh, I’m going to try hard to give my pup a birdy future.”</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">I know that my down-the-street patch of redbush that’s produced so many woodcock since 1994 isn’t coming back anytime soon. I know this because there’s a house – heck, a whole development – sitting on that ground today.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIucOTlsdnkkD6gC0nbKQkWmFPaEuOzHwJZLWBKVYAj5t518SUUDOlLch7s-lyf6Nwc5JU96O4dxnaD7ideNh1fEb69OwjFGKIrz_QyZ6WjMOuqp-ma3dHfGTaBTzZaCPsmJaaBZmyoTUlt4NpkqM6uavvkMP1jshWNB7qZImRN6OoHXezbLU/s646/cover%20jpg.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="646" data-original-width="486" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIucOTlsdnkkD6gC0nbKQkWmFPaEuOzHwJZLWBKVYAj5t518SUUDOlLch7s-lyf6Nwc5JU96O4dxnaD7ideNh1fEb69OwjFGKIrz_QyZ6WjMOuqp-ma3dHfGTaBTzZaCPsmJaaBZmyoTUlt4NpkqM6uavvkMP1jshWNB7qZImRN6OoHXezbLU/s320/cover%20jpg.jpg" width="241" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">There goes the (birds') neighborhood</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">But I still return to isolated patches of cover near there. I enjoy reconnecting with past hunts enjoyed in productive cover with good dogs and good friends. I wrote about that <a href="http://colduck.blogspot.com/2010/03/almost-as-happy-not-hitting-em-where.html">in 2010</a>. But nostalgia won’t help Jake now.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Recently I read an article by Peggy Noonan. I attach a relevant section below:</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">“Sometimes you have to realize a dream is a fixation, its object no longer achievable because it doesn’t exist.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">(Another) story involves Norman Lear, who produced many… television comedies (in) the 20th century… He said there are two words we don’t honor enough. One is ‘over’ and the other is ‘next.’ There’s a kind of hammock between the two and it is right now, this moment we’re sharing. He was saying: Be present. But as he talked, I heard embedded within his words a layer of advice: That it’s actually a key skill to be able to see when something’s over, when it’s the past, not the future; that you have to have eyes that can find the next area of constructiveness, which may take time; and in the time between, the hammock, you must maintain your peace and poise.”</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">I’m going to recall that paragraph when I try to find whatever’s next for pup and me. I’ll find “peace and poise,” even if not many birds, in what’s left of my beloved local covers. Meanwhile, I’ll redouble my efforts to find new opportunities essential to bringing Jake along.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Maybe “Winners would at times do better to redirect” is a better course of action, even if not better locker room bulletin board material.
</span></div>Michael M.http://www.blogger.com/profile/01752594030608428250noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22615169.post-27469830088031243202023-01-21T20:17:00.005-05:002023-01-22T08:02:46.054-05:00How Yellow Perch Can School Us About Social Media<p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"> John Glenn first stepped onto the moon nine months before the Old Duck was graduated from college. This factoid is included here to provide my approximate age, hence to indicate when my values were formed, and to give the lie to malicious gossip that I am Abe Lincoln’s older classmate.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Back in college I learned in statistics class about the <i>normal</i> or <i>bell </i>curve. It looked like this:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"> </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5wMnB-oDyYUodk4QCl3art3YfUSrnajY5rT8wsCKWIq39CdQ6dZWXon7uXkWHX3R3_tMaJc2YvObiCanchUrQHiGSMq4MdA2Yl8JkUWUHRfdSnPsX-FDz4axEaPoAwUSq3Idybf6HNsp3t1HzSPrcigrHKba-i5ZlUQn-uDW3vqvl59fSaE4/s1200/normal.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="492" data-original-width="1200" height="131" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5wMnB-oDyYUodk4QCl3art3YfUSrnajY5rT8wsCKWIq39CdQ6dZWXon7uXkWHX3R3_tMaJc2YvObiCanchUrQHiGSMq4MdA2Yl8JkUWUHRfdSnPsX-FDz4axEaPoAwUSq3Idybf6HNsp3t1HzSPrcigrHKba-i5ZlUQn-uDW3vqvl59fSaE4/s320/normal.png" width="320" /></span></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">This curve is very useful in describing the way many things occur in nature. Lots of stuff, that is, comes in a variety of sizes. The normal curve shows that most of the items usually are about an average, or "middling," size while fewer and fewer items are bigger or smaller the farther they are from average. For a simple example, think of catching a nice bucket full of perch in the honey hole on your favorite lake. Two or three are probably going to be runts, and another three or four are going to be relative “hogs,” but the great majority of the perch are going to be about the same size.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"> </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWNA7gXp1FI3fyOB2DGA_QbdzkbS38iIbionkVvvmuVhMPRZWq0v2HhELTJBibt_XjCyyRneOdvy-6eF80cNO-9bWmaPaUYAHMOv5xLdA1dy1Xuru8rdahjstL-G4SV558rG9jCPAVP0QUPSxvhasqQpo7qryGWcIZzd8g1mr-yQ1sOCE5y0U/s610/yp3.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="407" data-original-width="610" height="214" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWNA7gXp1FI3fyOB2DGA_QbdzkbS38iIbionkVvvmuVhMPRZWq0v2HhELTJBibt_XjCyyRneOdvy-6eF80cNO-9bWmaPaUYAHMOv5xLdA1dy1Xuru8rdahjstL-G4SV558rG9jCPAVP0QUPSxvhasqQpo7qryGWcIZzd8g1mr-yQ1sOCE5y0U/s320/yp3.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Most are average, or “normal.” I hope the perch take no offense at the term. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">When I listen to many radio or TV commentators these days, or browse the Internet, I get the impression that the normal curve has it all wrong. There seem to be two enemy camps, each thumping its righteous chest while decrying the ignorant vicious hordes of the opposition. Someone only casually observing such reporting might get the impression that the great majority of our fellow citizens occupies the far right and far left <i>tails</i> of the curve, with a scant few milquetoasts wavering in the middle. Such a curve might look like this, with more items in the tails than in the center:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"> </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipehdNVSK4f5nYFPfLiRHYoCYHGPcM99S8Q5u-zelgDRacmpeUcJjgzFUmbdG5eXE8m1rx1h2zepcZX4hKoGSwNUHa5-hM1x5QSQUkI6YiXPA62DI6UrLYMhbGvfxsaaQ5ZKBmY33K7AUimWAKcVFSAXclq8OnyGEZr5vIC-GNI7Y0s7d3Ano/s326/invbell2.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="286" data-original-width="326" height="281" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipehdNVSK4f5nYFPfLiRHYoCYHGPcM99S8Q5u-zelgDRacmpeUcJjgzFUmbdG5eXE8m1rx1h2zepcZX4hKoGSwNUHa5-hM1x5QSQUkI6YiXPA62DI6UrLYMhbGvfxsaaQ5ZKBmY33K7AUimWAKcVFSAXclq8OnyGEZr5vIC-GNI7Y0s7d3Ano/s320/invbell2.png" width="320" /></span></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">I spend most of my time living a geezer’s retired exurban life. I walk the dog, buy some groceries, play some golf with my buddies, enjoy suppers with family and friends, all the while gladly taking people as I meet them. I find almost every single one of the flesh-and-blood people I meet “normal” in the curve’s sense. Those using social media to make outrageous claims on both the right and the left are having, if you’ll pardon the expression, the tails wag the dog.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">So there you have it. Who are you going to believe? An honest mess of beautiful, tasty perch, or some nasty nameless gnome who’d rather tap a screen all day than have fun fishing?</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>Michael M.http://www.blogger.com/profile/01752594030608428250noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22615169.post-84141633791769013632023-01-19T19:45:00.001-05:002023-01-19T19:45:35.447-05:00On The Joys Of Walking Your Dog<p><span style="font-size: medium;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">How many times have you heard words like “…but first I’ve got to walk my dog” from friends you’d like to meet later in the day? Well, yes, your dog does love to go for a walk, specially if he gets to sniff all the guest books along the way before signing them himself.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">But I think this has the walking-my-dog relationship bass ackwards. I own my dog <b><i>precisely because</i></b> I greatly enjoy walking with him. We are partners in enjoying the opportunities and challenges that every day outdoors presents. As classical Roman poet Ovid wrote, “We two form a multitude.” In a contemporary wording of this sentiment, “our whole is greater than the sum of its parts.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Just a phrasing quibble? Or maybe a demarcation between dog owners and dog lovers?<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPYmkZO0iiHO-0WwlUpuk-1Cxic6is59oL-htk-J9jpc6MjSUJAmLV8yc827b_Ovw1ea0muSafcqPa8piw_gGtrD-uuF_93IsFB9Mnp7p-n9FRceeFLrpOxkviDfUGMRMnB1CyccISmBCkSqgAB_4O0GMx5Rn-XFgrNJ8tst6ZxXg6m6FtEQw/s768/11.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="511" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPYmkZO0iiHO-0WwlUpuk-1Cxic6is59oL-htk-J9jpc6MjSUJAmLV8yc827b_Ovw1ea0muSafcqPa8piw_gGtrD-uuF_93IsFB9Mnp7p-n9FRceeFLrpOxkviDfUGMRMnB1CyccISmBCkSqgAB_4O0GMx5Rn-XFgrNJ8tst6ZxXg6m6FtEQw/s320/11.jpg" width="213" /></a></div><br /><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt; margin: 0in;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjE2gNOB8cYXGuoQ_rDdg4djFph1jpXCKZnr3dXVGcaUW9l03h0b3lFMuqPgB96vlFDVdXZcKcvHv56b-maZFJtBmKmVNE7e1vwmNsSq4JVRBoF_Am0lSt4qIhLX7OwP1oijuJrWs4lMXyylfu4ICPyJbRPnCsuHN5zD6egkYnaaDhjlKfu1AQ/s1831/22.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1221" data-original-width="1831" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjE2gNOB8cYXGuoQ_rDdg4djFph1jpXCKZnr3dXVGcaUW9l03h0b3lFMuqPgB96vlFDVdXZcKcvHv56b-maZFJtBmKmVNE7e1vwmNsSq4JVRBoF_Am0lSt4qIhLX7OwP1oijuJrWs4lMXyylfu4ICPyJbRPnCsuHN5zD6egkYnaaDhjlKfu1AQ/s320/22.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt; margin: 0in;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJFXkPxXrmZwaKY9WA1JJjcD6c_c5pC5vM_DijEzERfLSWU7G4ckioa5jXfEQ_H9dtiE1dbd7JaOwguLeo3z3cp8nXiCBkq0OFZtdgkdZnib45uUbqjmL5ttY6OOEav5H3avIXJ92A_tTEdjxobKS-TaFNHkvyGmJJpbRF0ZN9rynNDZETvs4/s4032/33.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJFXkPxXrmZwaKY9WA1JJjcD6c_c5pC5vM_DijEzERfLSWU7G4ckioa5jXfEQ_H9dtiE1dbd7JaOwguLeo3z3cp8nXiCBkq0OFZtdgkdZnib45uUbqjmL5ttY6OOEav5H3avIXJ92A_tTEdjxobKS-TaFNHkvyGmJJpbRF0ZN9rynNDZETvs4/s320/33.jpeg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt; margin: 0in;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoqUkJLt_lXOo8eZkVTMmvuqw_5K1IG13Xo9ItmcegNa3tMdAd9AJ5kwvRcqznPDR1sRayXp0iXKfjVf7LuBw7Kx90ajWLaJjJeGipjCSl2SA36T7ssmL7RPPqP-hLbq-kBAy79acdq4bCOtz1wnX_TMBTLZ6ScuJ-icIhIl1lbnVeyTxZ03c/s4032/55.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoqUkJLt_lXOo8eZkVTMmvuqw_5K1IG13Xo9ItmcegNa3tMdAd9AJ5kwvRcqznPDR1sRayXp0iXKfjVf7LuBw7Kx90ajWLaJjJeGipjCSl2SA36T7ssmL7RPPqP-hLbq-kBAy79acdq4bCOtz1wnX_TMBTLZ6ScuJ-icIhIl1lbnVeyTxZ03c/s320/55.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt; margin: 0in;"><br /></p>Michael M.http://www.blogger.com/profile/01752594030608428250noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22615169.post-12327459826914855242022-08-22T21:00:00.000-04:002022-08-22T21:00:01.005-04:00Non-Randomized Scoots Just South of the Northern Adirondack Blue Line<span style="font-family: verdana;">Immediately after marrying a lovely North Country girl in 1978, I began exploring from her parents’ “base camp” routes and places inside the Adirondack Blue Line.</span><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">In 1983, I bought a newly-introduced Chevy S-10 Blazer. I was itchin’ to test its 4WD capability out, and so, after reading what Paul Samuelson had to say about the Wolf Pond Road in his “Adirondack Canoe Waters – North Flow,” I decided to try it out there. Here’s how Samuelson described that “road” in 1981:</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"> “…the Wolf Pond Road from Standish to Mountain View is venturesome. It is a winding, one-lane dirt road used by lumber trucks and an occasional quixotic motorist. Avoid it if you are addicted to claustrophobia. The forest shuts you in as tight as a clam in its shell. Avoid it too in wash-out season or when pressed for time. Chances are that you will meet no more than one truck and one car in the 12.5 miles. It is a road you will never forget.”</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">Samuelson got it right. The Wolf Pond Road is highlighted in red on the map below.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5sUQdM4O2EaAhQ2WGIMbpPpzWRyzHDNT6kHOFvdl3wmp9mtPgH3BXyJ1irolJ8b92fpkJ3__k0wQHRqgHSssZrIfyO5VskkKrs54-Q5VX3MvkqCkIeIqokcGQzzB7M08WRAK8si3gRiLU2is16Zu90W-bqFW7icf2nBQqEEezd9f7no1UNoA/s1600/Rte%2099%20copy.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1056" data-original-width="1600" height="211" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5sUQdM4O2EaAhQ2WGIMbpPpzWRyzHDNT6kHOFvdl3wmp9mtPgH3BXyJ1irolJ8b92fpkJ3__k0wQHRqgHSssZrIfyO5VskkKrs54-Q5VX3MvkqCkIeIqokcGQzzB7M08WRAK8si3gRiLU2is16Zu90W-bqFW7icf2nBQqEEezd9f7no1UNoA/s320/Rte%2099%20copy.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">Fourteen years later, I took another scoot, this time down Route 99 (the map’s blue highlight) southeasterly from Duane. The highway at that time was nicely paved, but save for one property near Loon Lake, it was the only reminder of civilization until the road terminates at Route 3.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">That remaining property was what was left of the Loon Lake House, a resort famous and well attended at the turn of the 20th century. You can read more about Ferd and Mary Chase and their resort <a href="https://localwiki.org/hsl/Loon_Lake_House">here</a>.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">Apparently the golf course was still open in 1997, although probably not nearly as well kept as it had been in its salad days. I stopped in and picked up a score card.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3gKTDzQm84U7y1TyMO2tXI77tWFQlcQyX6fV-n-tS5HDtXhpdwD3AlLtu0hk_bHPxBJioEyWHinLCk_Fzp4qmXtCyAeytVB_iw1Vx6pCq6nPD016S-RzAl7mWGYRd8Q24WKYiyHGsYpEUfWryTkmRILnKZ9z9bblxHwSJGnBeyD0kixZ-E8I/s3427/LL1.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1760" data-original-width="3427" height="164" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3gKTDzQm84U7y1TyMO2tXI77tWFQlcQyX6fV-n-tS5HDtXhpdwD3AlLtu0hk_bHPxBJioEyWHinLCk_Fzp4qmXtCyAeytVB_iw1Vx6pCq6nPD016S-RzAl7mWGYRd8Q24WKYiyHGsYpEUfWryTkmRILnKZ9z9bblxHwSJGnBeyD0kixZ-E8I/s320/LL1.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBDMtH9BnE_24Skik_ewqytKEZJD4PHQHyUGlvhxy0Fsb2fJnjt_INtFQnZMse22fwxea3qWPckSlq2NP67C_fTElCKABMYlvwDNeBLuDHhAT2uG3wwOuI1iBoxFHvhB4839wWEkaXZswUA9XhkmsO_lJArcndiV4zS6rSQduQdly815QM8Eg/s3430/LL2.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1760" data-original-width="3430" height="164" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBDMtH9BnE_24Skik_ewqytKEZJD4PHQHyUGlvhxy0Fsb2fJnjt_INtFQnZMse22fwxea3qWPckSlq2NP67C_fTElCKABMYlvwDNeBLuDHhAT2uG3wwOuI1iBoxFHvhB4839wWEkaXZswUA9XhkmsO_lJArcndiV4zS6rSQduQdly815QM8Eg/s320/LL2.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">The course was designed by Seymour Dunn, who also designed the Craig Wood and the Links Courses, both in Lake Placid.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">I’m not sure whether Mother Nature has entirely reclaimed the property, as I haven’t been back there since. But I’m glad I had the chance to see what was left of a grand Adirondack resort.
</span></div>Michael M.http://www.blogger.com/profile/01752594030608428250noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22615169.post-3466624269295914182022-08-08T20:40:00.000-04:002022-08-08T20:40:32.257-04:00Juvenile delinquent finally quits his low-down ways<p><span style="font-family: verdana;"> As a young pup, our Jake was a bouncy, bitey handful. Actually, he was several handsful, and all at the same time.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">But we hung with him through thick and thin and thinner. And then, beginning last year, he suddenly realized</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIO3Mm9i55FEZ-skIxhTV15njgmS9Hu_xXFgCDhavNGuYyIp62nO3qIu_o2GIaUoWn9Q25tKGmyfHdvVrUK6W9rsoMtiGvyReVTcnqHbHxD9mkk4v_n04vkGVAUHvi3jGdvO_NHaONvSEm0Nky5_mrEcSjrNtJhnl7bnV7jDn1lzsBOK7VNW8/s453/light%20bulb.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="453" data-original-width="434" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIO3Mm9i55FEZ-skIxhTV15njgmS9Hu_xXFgCDhavNGuYyIp62nO3qIu_o2GIaUoWn9Q25tKGmyfHdvVrUK6W9rsoMtiGvyReVTcnqHbHxD9mkk4v_n04vkGVAUHvi3jGdvO_NHaONvSEm0Nky5_mrEcSjrNtJhnl7bnV7jDn1lzsBOK7VNW8/s320/light%20bulb.jpeg" width="307" /></a></div><br /><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">that his ol’ Dad knew lots of groovy places where he got to do fun things. All he had to do was be cooperative to earn attaboys and ear scritches and encore performances.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">By May of this year, he was progressing so well that I thought he might actually, mirabile dictu, be able to earn a ribbon with a “Pass” in a doggie contest called a Hunt Test. In such a test, he has to find two live birds in the woods and fields, and retrieve them to me after they’ve been shot. He also has to fetch a dead duck from a pond and, again, deliver it to me. A "soft" mouth is expected from the dog; tooth marks or worse on the delivery are serious no-nos.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">On a recent Sunday, Jake and I traveled to his first-ever Hunt Test, run in NY’s Southern Tier. Boy, has he ever come a long, long way.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg30uJ2hRlC7ycRWFmVOU7BOUhkT4nXTWvXSPX9PrrWSPcDRZ2cIaeIEdOW3HJfIrNFXGy6bDPcEwqcDJ3nXpb2yny7QhaBKXnh_3QaFR2_K00gy5u7ZRdAt0cQlTUZVmDowxzaWzQAJd1qPqE61rvMVScQ5yYXel0qMcJGhyfDhFfI-Mfa0SE/s4032/ribbon.heic" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg30uJ2hRlC7ycRWFmVOU7BOUhkT4nXTWvXSPX9PrrWSPcDRZ2cIaeIEdOW3HJfIrNFXGy6bDPcEwqcDJ3nXpb2yny7QhaBKXnh_3QaFR2_K00gy5u7ZRdAt0cQlTUZVmDowxzaWzQAJd1qPqE61rvMVScQ5yYXel0qMcJGhyfDhFfI-Mfa0SE/s320/ribbon.heic" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">August 7, 2022</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><br /></p>Michael M.http://www.blogger.com/profile/01752594030608428250noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22615169.post-53845802149552919482022-05-06T20:54:00.007-04:002022-07-22T09:25:53.180-04:00Wings Are Just Chicken Feed In Buffalo’s Rich History<p><span style="font-family: verdana;"> <span>Lots of things have their roots in Buffalo, NY. When used here, “Buffalo” refers to the whole “Niagara Frontier.” A starter list of things Buffalo follows below, with links.</span></span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-kerning: none;">° If you wanted <a href="http://www.wnyhistory.org/portfolios/businessindustry/wood_brooks/wood_brooks.html">piano keys</a> at the beginning of the 20<sup>th</sup> century, your purchasing decision went through Buffalo.</span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-kerning: none;"> </span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-kerning: none;">° The “blue” in blue jeans once came from Buffalo’s <a href="https://buffalonews.com/news/local/history/looking-out-at-south-buffalo-s-national-aniline-1946/article_7e65b9eb-157c-5474-841f-126a5ce55dc0.html">National Aniline plant.</a></span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-kerning: none;">° “Manhattan” came to Buffalo at the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Ontario_Ordnance_Works">Lake Ontario Ordinance Works.</a></span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-kerning: none;">° The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtiss_P-40_Warhawk">Curtiss P-40 Warhawk</a>, the third-most produced American fighter of WWII, was manufactured in Buffalo.</span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-kerning: none;"> </span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-kerning: none;">° <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wurlitzer">Wurlitzer</a> organs, pianos, and juke boxes were produced in North Tonawanda, a Buffalo suburb.</span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-kerning: none;">° Highest-quality <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kittinger_Company#:~:text=The%20Kittinger%20Company%20was%20founded%20in%20Buffalo%2C%20New,Son%22%20after%20George%20and%20Oliver%20Colie%20took%20control.">Kittinger furniture</a> that sits in the White House and other exclusive venues was made in Buffalo.</span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-kerning: none;">° Buffalo’s Wilson Greatbatch invented the <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2042741/Wilson-Greatbatch-humble-tinkerer-invented-pacemaker-dies-92.html#:~:text=Inventor%20with%20heart%3A%20Wilson%20Greatbatch%2C%20posing%20in%20his,1997%2C%20invented%20the%20first%20implantable%20pacemaker%20in%201958.">Pacemaker.</a></span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-kerning: none;"> </span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-kerning: none;">° The first manufacturer of Mason Jars was <a href="https://www.buffalorising.com/2020/07/ten-things-that-came-from-buffalo-ball-mason-jars/">Ball Brothers Glass Manufacturing Company</a> founded in Buffalo in 1880.</span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-kerning: none;"> </span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-kerning: none;">° Willis Carrier is credited with inventing the <a href="https://www.coynecollege.edu/a-brief-history-of-hvac-air-conditioning/">air conditioner</a> while working at the Buffalo Forge Company.</span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-kerning: none;"> </span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-kerning: none;">° <a href="https://www.buffalorising.com/2020/07/ten-things-that-came-from-buffalo-steam-powered-grain-elevators/">Steam powered grain elevators</a> made Buffalo the third largest port by tonnage in the world by 1899.</span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-kerning: none;">° <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grover_Cleveland">Buffalo Mayor Grover Cleveland</a> became the 22nd President of the United States.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-kerning: none;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">° After Zachary Taylor died, his Vice President <a href="https://buffaloah.com/h/mf/grande/">Millard Filmore</a> became the 13<sup>th</sup> President of the United States. Before and after his Presidency, he significantly pursued social, educational, and philanthropic causes in Buffalo.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">° Shaped like a bullet, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_X-1">X-1</a> was built by Buffalo's Bell Aircraft Corporation.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">° James Ambrose Johnson Jr., aka <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_James">Rick James</a>, was born and raised</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> in Buffalo.</span></p><div><span style="font-kerning: none;"><br /></span></div>Michael M.http://www.blogger.com/profile/01752594030608428250noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22615169.post-21511704378183605212022-04-22T06:30:00.001-04:002022-04-22T06:30:00.167-04:00Ice Breaker 5 MI in Great Falls, MT on 4/22/1990<p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"> (I started writing about Nancy Mieszczak’s 32-year-old races back in 2010. I thought they’d been too much fun to be enjoyed just once; and, maybe just a little bit, I wanted to show The Kids how the Old Folks used to roll back in the days of yore. Anyways, I initially crammed a bunch of her races into one continuing post. Lately I’ve been writing them up one by one. If you’re interested, you can start from the beginning <a href="http://colduck.blogspot.com/2016/05/on-road-again-32-years-later.html">here</a>.)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 15pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>Distance:</b> 5 MI<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 15pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>Time:</b> 30:48<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 15pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>Place:</b> 2<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 15pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>Prize:</b> $150<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 15pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">∑ <b>Career Earnings:</b> $23,779<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 15pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 15pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>The Skinny:</b> A Lady I Won’t Name won the Masters’ Division. But Nancy was very cooperative with the racers and race director, glad handing entrants while giving a pre-race training clinic, and being accessible and positive post race. So the director, whose name I sadly forget, funneled a few extra dollars into the first runner up’s pockets. Hey, what goes around comes around!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 15pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"> </span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpzS2JkPqjJf_12B73NY0yY_h7Qlh6yEdr0ZtuMx63JsPWDZh51KOf4O0DN5upXknOB2aL-HUMStWbyX940aw9GkVkCOvaRMENWzDatmCNtnC1zbYkrIktHXT68AEpnC2naGU7gxFFJCuf0z3HGDo6rD46WIc5X6DLqStTdTDSpucaWF1aaCE/s1464/199004.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1464" data-original-width="1024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpzS2JkPqjJf_12B73NY0yY_h7Qlh6yEdr0ZtuMx63JsPWDZh51KOf4O0DN5upXknOB2aL-HUMStWbyX940aw9GkVkCOvaRMENWzDatmCNtnC1zbYkrIktHXT68AEpnC2naGU7gxFFJCuf0z3HGDo6rD46WIc5X6DLqStTdTDSpucaWF1aaCE/s320/199004.jpeg" width="224" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lunching with Frank Shorter</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 15pt; margin: 0in;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 15pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"> </span></p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Coming next time: Shamrock 8 KM on 3/16</span>Michael M.http://www.blogger.com/profile/01752594030608428250noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22615169.post-66389559624485991902022-04-08T06:30:00.001-04:002022-04-08T06:30:00.148-04:00Sallie Mae 10 KM in Washington, DC on 4/8/1990<p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"> (I started writing about Nancy Mieszczak’s 32-year-old races back in 2010. I thought they’d been too much fun to be enjoyed just once; and, maybe just a little bit, I wanted to show The Kids how the Old Folks used to roll back in the days of yore. Anyways, I initially crammed a bunch of her races into one continuing post. Lately I’ve been writing them up one by one. If you’re interested, you can start from the beginning <a href="http://colduck.blogspot.com/2016/05/on-road-again-32-years-later.html">here</a>.)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>Distance:</b> 10 KM<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>Time:</b> -36:54<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>Place:</b> 3<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>Prize:</b> $200<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">∑ <b>Career Earnings:</b> $23,629<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>The Skinny:</b> Barbara Filutze won the Masters’ Division and was ninth overall.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Coming next time: Ice Breaker 5 MI on 4/22</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>Michael M.http://www.blogger.com/profile/01752594030608428250noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22615169.post-47898976999256196142022-03-17T06:30:00.001-04:002022-03-17T06:30:00.163-04:00Shamrock 8 KM in Virginia Beach, VA on 3/17/1990<p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"> (I started writing about Nancy Mieszczak’s 32-year-old races back in 2010. I thought they’d been too much fun to be enjoyed just once; and, maybe just a little bit, I wanted to show The Kids how the Old Folks used to roll back in the days of yore. Anyways, I initially crammed a bunch of her races into one continuing post. Lately I’ve been writing them up one by one. If you’re interested, you can start from the beginning <a href="http://colduck.blogspot.com/2016/05/on-road-again-32-years-later.html">here</a>.)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>Distance:</b> 8 KM<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>Time:</b> -30:09<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>Place:</b> 3<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>Prize:</b> $200<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">∑ <b>Career Earnings:</b> $23,429<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>The Skinny:</b> Gabby Anderson won.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Coming next time: Sallie Mae 10 KM on 4/8</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>Michael M.http://www.blogger.com/profile/01752594030608428250noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22615169.post-23068376428623344842021-12-31T06:00:00.001-05:002021-12-31T06:00:00.153-05:00ICI-USRA end of year results on December 31, 1989<p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"> (I started writing about Nancy Mieszczak’s 32-year-old races back in 2010. I thought they’d been too much fun to be enjoyed just once; and, maybe just a little bit, I wanted to show The Kids how the Old Folks used to roll back in the days of yore. Anyways, I initially crammed a bunch of her races into one continuing post. Lately I’ve been writing them up one by one. If you’re interested, you can start from the beginning <a href="http://colduck.blogspot.com/2016/05/on-road-again-32-years-later.html">here.</a>)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>Distance:</b> -<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>Time:</b> -<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>Place:</b> 3 or 7, depending on who’s doing the ranking<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>Prize:</b> $750<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">∑ <b>Career Earnings:</b> $23,229<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>The Skinny:</b> Nancy had a great year “on the circuit,” finishing 3<sup>rd</sup> and 7<sup>th</sup> among Master’s women in two different ranking systems. That’s how she was able to earn $750 after the Naples, FL race without leaving her sofa back in Buffalo, NY.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"> </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjfjJaQJZ0xBw3k6ZgNDK8O6iROS4-zeCwp1UrbxO25kwoibG9hzcz3kqPe9I6zoBes-Dm8-97tDvuwjD7Wcid7bedAVityuvw6d9exZ2VONcVPdZcJDEySlVNDw6xZF0GC5m7cTX8xcM2Cc-Ov-Gu8E-SMs4bPNTCHNiD5GQaMrscdR22ixUg=s1556" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1556" data-original-width="672" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjfjJaQJZ0xBw3k6ZgNDK8O6iROS4-zeCwp1UrbxO25kwoibG9hzcz3kqPe9I6zoBes-Dm8-97tDvuwjD7Wcid7bedAVityuvw6d9exZ2VONcVPdZcJDEySlVNDw6xZF0GC5m7cTX8xcM2Cc-Ov-Gu8E-SMs4bPNTCHNiD5GQaMrscdR22ixUg=s320" width="138" /></a></div><br /><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhwp-G8ghtSePFDq2pHAnl5gRT7KgSXlkSlbgEwoEbTAZv68NoCALyUS7x9R_BYSDoNqToL8P79CM2ut3-8KP4iEQJiZl_FuEtH8JWEMSlzbj-FSjEqo9HyZljV2q_AQbhvs11tQjKEph1dnkg-C9xgrotlMjMetnkYAE13lshQ631qFeD3q2w=s2169" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2169" data-original-width="544" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhwp-G8ghtSePFDq2pHAnl5gRT7KgSXlkSlbgEwoEbTAZv68NoCALyUS7x9R_BYSDoNqToL8P79CM2ut3-8KP4iEQJiZl_FuEtH8JWEMSlzbj-FSjEqo9HyZljV2q_AQbhvs11tQjKEph1dnkg-C9xgrotlMjMetnkYAE13lshQ631qFeD3q2w=s320" width="80" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Coming next time: Shamrock 8 KM</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>Michael M.http://www.blogger.com/profile/01752594030608428250noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22615169.post-9139556342563835082021-12-09T06:00:00.001-05:002021-12-09T06:00:00.161-05:00Rocket City Marathon in Huntsville, AL on December 9, 1989<p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"> (I started writing about Nancy Mieszczak’s 32-year-old races back in 2010. I thought they’d been too much fun to be enjoyed just once; and, maybe just a little bit, I wanted to show The Kids how the Old Folks used to roll back in the days of yore. Anyways, I initially crammed a bunch of her races into one continuing post. Lately I’ve been writing them up one by one. If you’re interested, you can start from the beginning <a href="http://colduck.blogspot.com/2016/05/on-road-again-32-years-later.html">here.</a>.)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>Distance:</b> 26.21 miles<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>Time:</b> 2:55:53<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>Place:</b> 1<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>Prize:</b> $1,250<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">∑ <b>Career Earnings:</b> $22,479<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>The Skinny:</b> Race Director Harold Tinsley treated his invited runners like royalty. Huntsville was always a great road trip.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Here’s the newspaper’s writeup of the results.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"> </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgofCdF4-zMQHSaxBdr2tJ1z8L6RzDKWAA5j7AnOYzAfSJOjepJovI75bWpWBofPds1WRkwLmIbGvI2XMy1cl4Tw4iqP3DkdEnZGjXqefFJpSBkajxQSgKFAkNKqDuRdnzIHDQR8oWfaEbtJIkeq-CjdSr2jQxbCGCYXYPbh1jyid1jUc9H4_k=s2048" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1560" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgofCdF4-zMQHSaxBdr2tJ1z8L6RzDKWAA5j7AnOYzAfSJOjepJovI75bWpWBofPds1WRkwLmIbGvI2XMy1cl4Tw4iqP3DkdEnZGjXqefFJpSBkajxQSgKFAkNKqDuRdnzIHDQR8oWfaEbtJIkeq-CjdSr2jQxbCGCYXYPbh1jyid1jUc9H4_k=s320" width="244" /></a></div><br /><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Coming next time: Shamrock 8 KM</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>Michael M.http://www.blogger.com/profile/01752594030608428250noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22615169.post-23660377628897223092021-11-18T04:00:00.003-05:002021-11-18T04:00:00.170-05:00Vulcan 10 KM Run in Birmingham, AL on November 18, 1989<p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"> (I started writing about Nancy Mieszczak’s 32-year-old races back in 2010. I thought they’d been too much fun to be enjoyed just once; and, maybe just a little bit, I wanted to show The Kids how the Old Folks used to roll back in the days of yore. Anyways, I initially crammed a bunch of her races into one continuing post. Lately I’ve been writing them up one by one. If you’re interested, you can start from the beginning <a href="http://colduck.blogspot.com/2016/05/on-road-again-32-years-later.html">here.</a>)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>Distance:</b> 10 km<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>Time:</b> 0:36:10<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>Place:</b> 1<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>Prize:</b> $750<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">∑ <b>Career Earnings:</b> $21,229<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>The Skinny:</b> In our warmup run the day before the race, we were surprised to learn that Birmingham is so hilly. With the help of friendly hotel staff, we also found a wonderful Italian Restaurant which served herbed olive oil and bread as an appetizer. It’s hard to believe now, but we’d never had that before. Birmingham was a terrific host: thanks!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"> </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4KynnjWaDdsnxi1yEK8lGuo_ZXdRcx_vkUIKuP2gji3LxPs5UlDGHKjxjGlrRfb-nU1eyylgA8LljQFG9lBdMSxL3Jxlea_1uqptI1s0cMiH9xqpdGTawriHUjFOdKwdssBVR_w/s1274/Vulcan+info.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="208" data-original-width="1274" height="88" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4KynnjWaDdsnxi1yEK8lGuo_ZXdRcx_vkUIKuP2gji3LxPs5UlDGHKjxjGlrRfb-nU1eyylgA8LljQFG9lBdMSxL3Jxlea_1uqptI1s0cMiH9xqpdGTawriHUjFOdKwdssBVR_w/w387-h88/Vulcan+info.png" width="387" /></a></div><br /><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Coming next time: Rocket City Marathon</span></p>Michael M.http://www.blogger.com/profile/01752594030608428250noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22615169.post-63179845113556576602021-11-11T13:06:00.000-05:002021-11-11T13:06:11.302-05:00The Earth’s Rotation Ends Sleepless Night With Light Of Day<p><span style="font-family: verdana;"> On a recent night, I awoke with a start, consumed by a burning question: “Does the Earth rotate clockwise or counterclockwise?” No kidding. WTH? Further tossing and turning revealed that I didn’t know dookie about my home base. How old is the Earth? What does it weigh?</span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 22px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">So I embraced the task of researching several of these questions. Possibly to save you from a similar sleepless night — OK, maybe I awoke simply for my 2 a.m. pee. Much better than not awakening…. — here’s some particulars about Mother Earth.</span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>How old is the Earth?</b></span></span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">The earth is 4.5 billion years old.</span></span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>What does the Earth weigh?</b></span></span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">1.3 X 10 ^ 25 pounds. That is, 13,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 pounds. It’s no wonder, then, that Atlas shrugged.</span></span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>What is the circumference of the Earth?</b></span></span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">The circumference of Earth at the equator is 24,903 miles.</span></span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 22px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span></span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Does the Earth rotate clockwise or counterclockwise?</b></span></span></p>
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<div style="text-align: left;"><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">When viewed above the North Pole, the Earth rotates counterclockwise, from west to east. This is also called a prograde rotation. Because of this direction of rotation, we see the sun rising every day in the east and setting in the west.</span></span></p><p style="color: #292d31; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span></div></div>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Is the Earth’s axis of rotation tilted?</b></span></span></p>
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<p style="color: #0e0e0e; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-kerning: none;">The axis of rotation of the Earth is tilted at an angle of 23.5 degrees away from vertical, perpendicular to the plane of our planet's orbit around the sun. The tilt of the Earth's axis is important in that it governs the warming strength of the sun's energy, and thus produces the four seasons.</span></span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Does the Earth revolve clockwise or counterclockwise around the sun?</b></span></span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 22px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 22px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(14, 14, 14); color: #0e0e0e; font-family: verdana;"> Its rotation around the sun is prograde, or west to east, which appears counterclockwise when viewed from above the North Pole, and it is common to all the planets in our solar system except Venus and Uranus</span></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 22px;"><br /></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Hey, how about a picture of all this?</b></span></span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Sure. This school kid-level <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l64YwNl1wr0">explanation</a> seems sufficiently complete for me. Anything more would leave me in the dust. See if you can detect a booboo the young lady makes.</span></span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Hey, who cares about this anyway?</b></span></span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Well, more than a few years ago, the Catholic Church cared very much. And it threatened to put the screws to Galileo — really! That’s where the term comes from! — for suggesting that the Earth revolved around the Sun. Suddenly, Galileo cared very much, too. Looky here:</span></span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">“On June 22nd, 1633, Galileo was shown the instruments of torture by the Inquisition and threatened with their use unless he recanted his expressed view that the Earth revolved around the Sun, instead of the other way round.</span></span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Galileo had seen the moons of Jupiter and the phases of Venus through his telescope. When he published “The Starry Messenger” in 1610, he endorsed the heliocentric theory of Nicolaus Copernicus. He proposed a theory of tides in 1616, attributing the motion of the Earth as a cause of them. In 1632 he published his “Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems,” again implying heliocentrism, which the Inquisition had formally declared to be heretical in 1616, banning books that supported it.</span></span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">At his trial he was found "vehemently suspect of heresy", banned from holding or teaching heliocentric views, and was sentenced to life in prison. He was a frail 69-year-old, and the sentence was commuted on the following day to house arrest. He spent the remaining years of his life under house arrest at his villa near Florence, until he died aged 77.”</span></span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">* ° * ° * ° * ° * ° * ° * ° * ° * ° </span></span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">As I was tidying this up for submission, I found myself listening to a podcast featuring astrophysicist Sandra Faber (No kidding. Who knew?) The discussion is really big-boy stuff, and highly recommended if you enjoyed my initial research on the Earth. You can find it</span></span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://www.econtalk.org/sandra-faber-on-the-future-of-the-earth/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=sandra-faber-on-the-future-of-the-earth">here.</a></span></p><div><span style="font-kerning: none;"><br /></span></div>Michael M.http://www.blogger.com/profile/01752594030608428250noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22615169.post-6602351300424801602021-10-14T03:00:00.001-04:002021-10-14T03:00:00.203-04:00Capital Trail 10 MI in Raleigh, NC on October 14, 1989<p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"> (I started writing about Nancy Mieszczak’s 32-year-old races back in 2010. I thought they’d been too much fun to be enjoyed just once; and, maybe just a little bit, I wanted to show The Kids how the Old Folks used to roll back in the days of yore. Anyways, I initially crammed a bunch of her races into one continuing post. Lately I’ve been writing them up one by one. If you’re interested, you can start from the beginning <a href="http://colduck.blogspot.com/2016/05/on-road-again-32-years-later.html">here</a>.)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>Distance:</b> 10 miles<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>Time:</b> 1:00:09<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>Place:</b> 1<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>Prize:</b> $500<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">∑ <b>Career Earnings:</b> $20,479<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>The Skinny:</b> Nancy was the first Master and 8<sup>th</sup> overall.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"> </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAbwM_M3vgwZsV8blrp4gIU3mFrODxJRehW0T2XGwamPIIE1ftKoy10oLjkixNxDoffTmDWR63vtZQxEe-LN5Qbm3yUmWqF5ikJoY7dRCjGx92wEQBLjWuOcsPu6aWnBRq5DD-kQ/s1734/Cap+Trail.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="584" data-original-width="1734" height="108" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAbwM_M3vgwZsV8blrp4gIU3mFrODxJRehW0T2XGwamPIIE1ftKoy10oLjkixNxDoffTmDWR63vtZQxEe-LN5Qbm3yUmWqF5ikJoY7dRCjGx92wEQBLjWuOcsPu6aWnBRq5DD-kQ/s320/Cap+Trail.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"> </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivJM-GWuk-Mxc6MlNO-V7gD1E8D14alkZEiQQNUUd96fSVh0_kkjCv2XBwdv55dCR7OvtTqFyaL9zmkdbITlG9eHsALpt7I8cPk59nhUMCnYoTtu-_FP0NCglr1LiUPJJv08lbIw/s2038/Capital+Trail.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2038" data-original-width="1408" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivJM-GWuk-Mxc6MlNO-V7gD1E8D14alkZEiQQNUUd96fSVh0_kkjCv2XBwdv55dCR7OvtTqFyaL9zmkdbITlG9eHsALpt7I8cPk59nhUMCnYoTtu-_FP0NCglr1LiUPJJv08lbIw/s320/Capital+Trail.jpeg" width="221" /></a></div><br /><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Coming next time: Vulcan Run 10 KM</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>Michael M.http://www.blogger.com/profile/01752594030608428250noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22615169.post-40898267538661320912021-09-04T08:32:00.001-04:002021-09-04T08:32:30.417-04:00New Haven 20 KM in New Haven, CT on September 4, 1989<p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">(I started writing about Nancy Mieszczak’s 32-year-old races back in 2010. I thought they’d been too much fun to be enjoyed just once; and, maybe just a little bit, I wanted to show The Kids how the Old Folks used to roll back in the days of yore. Anyways, I initially crammed a bunch of her races into one continuing post. Lately I’ve been writing them up one by one. If you’re interested, you can start from the beginning <a href="http://colduck.blogspot.com/2016/05/on-road-again-32-years-later.html">here</a>.)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>Distance:</b> 12.418 miles<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>Time:</b> 1:15:29<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>Place:</b> 1<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>Prize:</b> $500<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">∑ <b>Career Earnings:</b> $19,979<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>The Skinny:</b> The $500 prize offered by this small regional race was quite impressive.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Coming next time: Capital Trail 10 Mile</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>Michael M.http://www.blogger.com/profile/01752594030608428250noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22615169.post-26062515216950480382021-07-29T03:30:00.001-04:002021-07-29T03:30:00.195-04:00Bix 7 MI in Davenport, IA on July 29, 1989<p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"> (I started writing about Nancy Mieszczak’s 32-year-old races back in 2010. I thought they’d been too much fun to be enjoyed just once; and, maybe just a little bit, I wanted to show The Kids how the Old Folks used to roll back in the days of yore. Anyways, I initially crammed a bunch of her races into one continuing post. Lately I’ve been writing them up one by one. If you’re interested, you can start from the beginning <a href="http://colduck.blogspot.com/2016/05/on-road-again-32-years-later.html">here</a>.)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>Distance:</b> 7.000 miles<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>Time:</b> 41:54<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>Place:</b> 3<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>Prize:</b> $250<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">∑ <b>Career Earnings:</b> $19,479<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>The Skinny:</b> Laurie Binder won the Masters’ division.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"> </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuMVSLPc0SP9bqGTYnVsk2CqVM_cYnoSM7_INAHO13iIlscNRYPAE2C5NMPGLAaEYKZB4ukR64ZOsmUiwMqvSTDROFoCoyPGixnUiG4MEUv-Mggl9k-z1x8YTXzxX80U6NUGfD2Q/s1940/Bix+1989.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1322" data-original-width="1940" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuMVSLPc0SP9bqGTYnVsk2CqVM_cYnoSM7_INAHO13iIlscNRYPAE2C5NMPGLAaEYKZB4ukR64ZOsmUiwMqvSTDROFoCoyPGixnUiG4MEUv-Mggl9k-z1x8YTXzxX80U6NUGfD2Q/s320/Bix+1989.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Coming next time: New Haven 20 KM</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>Michael M.http://www.blogger.com/profile/01752594030608428250noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22615169.post-88967321986736300972021-07-15T03:30:00.001-04:002021-07-15T03:30:00.215-04:00Casey’s 4 MI in Buffalo, NY on July 15, 1989<p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"> (I started writing about Nancy Mieszczak’s 32-year-old races back in 2010. I thought they’d been too much fun to be enjoyed just once; and, maybe just a little bit, I wanted to show The Kids how the Old Folks used to roll back in the days of yore. Anyways, I initially crammed a bunch of her races into one continuing post. Lately I’ve been writing them up one by one. If you’re interested, you can start from the beginning <a href="http://colduck.blogspot.com/2016/05/on-road-again-32-years-later.html">here</a>.)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>Distance:</b> 4.00 miles<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>Time:</b> 23:05<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>Place:</b> 2<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>Prize:</b> $400<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">∑ <b>Career Earnings:</b> $19,229<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>The Skinny:</b> Nancy Oshier won.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Jim Nowicki got Subaru to bankroll this race annually, and it began to draw premier athletes over the years. But July 15 in the afternoon usually meant a too-hot day for Nancy to thrive.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"> </span></p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Coming up next time: The Bix 7</span>Michael M.http://www.blogger.com/profile/01752594030608428250noreply@blogger.com0