Archive for the 'Fitness' Category

It’s Finally Here!

April 10, 2008

Spring. Today. The first morning I was able to walk out to get my Bangor Daily News paper by the road on ground that was not frozen solid. Unbelievable! It is 7 pm now and I am still able to look outside and see the last traces of snow [...]

Post Birthday Hike

March 30, 2008

     We got whacked again on Friday with another snow storm that canceled all local schools and meetings for the eighth time this winter. The good news is that the bare ground is now warmed up to the point that the snow that lands there is usually gone in a few days.

Today I finally [...]

Birthday 2008

March 27, 2008

     Today was my birthday, March 27, and also the first anniversary of my first day  of the start of my  five and a half month Appalachian Trail thru-hike last year.
This year, my wife and her twin sister are about three weeks in to the launch of their own AT thru-hike, a valiant effort for [...]

The Bare Earth

March 26, 2008

It is getting close to 3/27 , the first anniversary of starting my Appalachian Trail thru-hike .
A couple of days ago, I was back on the Uncle Tom trail, a local path through the forest right here in Maine . I took my snow shoes with me, [...]

Pick up a hitch hiker and forget about the heart rate monitor

March 16, 2008

Been a busy week for me, with trying to run the house alone, update my wife’s valiant progress on her Appalachian Trail thru-hike attempt on Trailjournals, shovel some more snow, and try and work a bit to make some money to pay these bills.
Still pretty worked up [...]