#GoTheDist 2015: January totals
my final January totals are: 285,009 steps 117.62 miles walked 81.54 miles biked I’m most proud of the biking goal because it represents a return to the gym which was something I really wanted to do....
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book’em messy shelves
Before After AKA two friends’ organized shelves make me feel guilty. I really don’t read dead tree books all that often and I had some that I’ve long since replaced with e-books. Speaking of books,...
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Fire Inside: Oklahoma City
Oklahoma City Memorial, Survivor Tree and Reflecting Pool from site of former Murrah Building I’m reading The Fire Inside by Steve Delsohn after reading about it in an AskMe that was recently linked in...
View ArticleWinter Wonderland rescues February
The shots of the frozen Hudson have been awesome this winter. I got a few I liked last weekend on the train, at sunset and on the Intrepid but decided this weekend was likely my last chance to go...
View Article#GoTheDist: February 2015
Well I knew February was going to be a challenge, and it was. But two strong days on the last two days of the month made it better than I hoped/expected. February Totals: 276,898 steps 114.9 miles...
View ArticleConfessions of a Designated Fat Taxi Driver?
aka a two-in-one review because I started and finished two books in the last three days Confessions of a New York Taxi Driver by Eugene Salomon and Jennifer Joyner’s Designated Fat Girl. Two very...
View ArticleQ1 Update: 2015 Alphabet Soup Challenge
With one quarter of the year about gone, I’ve read 24 books! Yep, my no crap before Memorial Day went out the window, but oh well, it’s reading. I’ve also left 17 unfinished. I’m in very good shape to...
View ArticleQ1 #GoTheDist in the books
so… remember that mileage I planned to pick up in April or May or maybe Q3? I did. In March! My March totals: 365,682 steps 151.93 miles walked 64.55 miles biked HoLY SHIT. This is my best month ever...
View ArticleSecond Hand Rose
The Lower East Side Conservancy Tour‘s meeting site, “the former Yiddish Arts Theater (now a multiplex)” is Second Avenue in a nutshell. And while the tour of the Jewish Rialto is one I’ve wanted to...
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19.5 miles of the Great Saunter
as I’ve touched on before, the Great Saunter was the idea behind the #GreatManhattanLoop when I first started walking Manhattan. Due to a combination of not being in town on that Saturday and knowing I...
View ArticleReview: Life on Foot by Nate Damm
It’s been a while since I read a walking book. I’m going to take a gander that the Saunter inspired it. I can safely say that the walk Nate Damm covered in his Life On Foot: A Walk Across America...
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exploring New Amsterdam
aka another beautiful Sunday with the Lower East Side Jewish Conservancy on their Colonial New Amsterdam tour. Until they added some new public tours this spring, this was the last one I hadn’t done so...
View ArticleAmbitious June #GoTheDist goal
I was so antsy while away to see if I’d hit my stretch goal of 310,000 steps. Well, I didn’t. I blew it out of the water. May totals: Steps: 359,946 Miles Walked: 147.9 Wow. Easily my best month ever....
View ArticleWelcome back, NYC’s High Bridge
A year to the day after I finished my “last major bridge crossing“, I got to walk across the one that has teased me for most of my #GreatManhattanLoop – ing. After 40-45 years (depending on who is...
View Articleabout the million step goal?
On June 2, I set a “kind of ridiculous but possibly attainable June goal” of 320,089 steps. On June 27, I beat that goal, although I didn’t realize it until June 29. FInal June totals: 347,231 steps...
View ArticleQ2 update: 2015 Alphabet Soup Reading Challenge
I fell off on my challenge updating, but as I briefly noted earlier, I’ve read 56 books this year. Together with the 23 I didn’t finish (or saved for later as a friend said), that’s amazing. I’m...
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Review: Daniel Silva’s The English Spy
Guilty. Guilty as Charged AKA, Daniel Silva, you make me absolutely crazy but I love every word you write. Oddly, this is the first one in a few books where I’ve read the book as soon as it came out....
View ArticleReview: Orange is the New Black
The 63rd book I finished this year was certainly among the most intriguing. I never had much interest in the show of the same name, and only added the book to my library wish list after watching Pablo...
View Articlesometimes, not making goal is OK
about that 333,333K July step goal and second attempt at one million steps? Not happening. And that’s not my usual pessimism speaking either. I realized it back in July but thought I might have a...
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50 before 50
Have I seriously never posted about the 50 before 50 aka visit all fifty states before I turn 50 challenge? Maybe because as of last year, I didn’t think it was going to happen: States visited as of...
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