These are not guaranteed, but here’s what I’m estimating:
I’ll refine these a little more as the week goes on.
The second book in the Adam Dalgliesh series by P.D. James. Oh, I’ll read all of these at some point. This one takes place in a psychiatric hospital and you get to know all of the key players as the clues are released. Nice ending.
You may have heard about the 10 mile urban hike happening on April 25th called Coffee, Cocktails, and Chicken. You’re all welcome to come. You’re also welcome to come to a quick body weight PT session happening early on in the hike.
The body weight PT is optional. You can participate simply by showing up at the start time at Big Shoulders Coffee because we’ll do the PT shortly after within the first mile. It’s either going to be at Ekchart Park (Chicago and Noble) or Commercial Park (Wolcott, a block north of Chicago).
If you don’t want to participate, you can meet us immediately after at Dark Matter Coffee/Star Lounge at 2521 West Chicago, our second stop.
We’re keeping it simple, here’s the target workout:
You can do more or you can do less. Doesn’t matter, nobody will be counting. We’ll max the time at 20 minutes. I did it today in 5 sets of 20-20-20-10-20 and it took me 19 minutes. Let’s not go overboard because there’s still 9 miles to walk after this and it’s early in the season. This will get more complicated as the season progresses.
This thing is still in the planning stages but I’ve got a date; save Saturday April 25th! We’re starting early to mid-morning and taking a 10 mile tour through Ukrainian Village, Humboldt Park, Logan Square, Avondale, Bucktown, and Wicker Park. There’s a map after the jump.
It will start and end at Big Shoulders Coffee at Chicago and Milwaukee in West Town, but you can join and leave anywhere along the route. I’ll post periodic updates online mostly on Twitter @jstefdotcom.
We’ll be making planned stops at Dark Matter, Parson’s, Honey Butter, and Harold’s. These chicken places are heavy into cocktails, it seems, so be careful. These won’t be long stops. We may sit down, but it will be short.
I’m also throwing in about 30 minutes of bodyweight PT early on, maybe at a park along Chicago avenue before the caffeine hit at Dark Matter. Depending on the weather, we’re talking sit-ups, push-ups, squats, and lunges – maybe a 100 each, or as many as you can do, whatever. If you’re not up for that, join us after at Dark Matter.
I’m expecting the whole thing to go from like 8am-ish to 1pm-ish. I don’t know. The route is in blue below. Red things are chicken places, black things are coffee places, and blue things are public transpo spots (Blue Line and Divvy Bike stations). Hover or click each for info.
Check back, I’ll have more in the coming weeks, including a rough timeline with meeting places and contact info.
This book is life-changing and altered many of my views on health and wellness. The author, a Harvard evolutionary biologist named Daniel Lieberman, was quoted extensively in Born to Run. I need to reread and document it some day soon.
Killer story, perfect job by Costner, bad movie, I liked it a lot. Go figure. Macfarland is a small California town that dominated in cross-country under the tutelage of a former football coach who figured out how to coach running on his own.
Netflix took this thing over from the BBC (or some British network) and carried on the tradition well I think. It’s the same uncomfortably twisted characters and follows the same uncomfortable story line; both of which are fine with me.
These are my hikers, my winter runners, and my casual tennis shoes. I use them for day hiking with a loaded pack, running in snow, and general knocking around town. Water stays out and the outside sheds dirt and grime well. They are getting beat up because I wear them all the time, but the tread has held up. If you’re just going to have one pair of shoes, know that charcoal goes with everything.
I had no idea what to expect from this novel. I bought it years ago in Kindle format because Amazon cajoled me into it with a sale and some algorithm-based sales push. Then Gail mentioned that it was coming out in TV format and that she wanted to watch it, so my hand was forced and I cracked the book open.