There have been a lot of dense fog advisories in the northern California valley recently, which is quite typical for this time of year. It can make for some great sunrises if you can get just a little bit of elevation.
I also ran by some deer that were having a lovely breakfast stroll on Upper Trail.
This was all on my standard weekend long run.
Run for Food was back on this year. It certainly wasn't up to the same level of participation that it has had in the past, but it was a good showing. I opted for a chipped time even though I haven't been doing anything that would suggest I would have a fast time. I did manage a 7:49min/mile page, which I guess for not going in with a goal is a fine after the fact one. Total time was 00:24:13, 7th in my age group and 96th overall (race results).
My race nemesis, Ben Bailey, caught up to me with about half a mile to go. He then proceeded to pull away and there wasn't a damn thing I could do. I was going as fast as I could go and there was nothing in the tank.
What ruggedly handsome runners!
It was also a challenge on the blood sugar front. My Dexcom system gets a little cranky when it's cold out, so I knew the readings were to be taken with some skepticism. The precipitous drop you see below is almost certainly due to the cold impacting my sensor.
Wheeeeeeee!
I knew the crazy spike was going to come when I stopped running as it happens after most workouts and seems to be proportional to my pace. I have to assume that running all out for 5k gets the liver a little revved up, dumping glucose (aka energy) into the blood stream because my muscles were screaming for fuel.
No, I’m not shopping today. It was a gorgeous day for a hike in the park though!
It was in the low 40s this morning, which made for an exhilirating run, mostly in the dark. The upshot is that there is enough light now to get good morning shots.
Taken during my run this morning. My timing was impeccable. You can get a larger resolution at Flickr.
I've updated my Lindo Channel albums on Flickr and they're broken down by year. They are Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike licensed. Maybe you'll be more creative with them than I have been. Let me know if you do something cool with them. @pberry, Instagram, or same username @ gmail.com.
On Sundays I take Posey for a hike in Upper Bidwell Park. It’s been foggy lately, as it usually happens during fall in the California Central Valley. It doesn’t take a lot of elevation to get above the fog and the park is perfect for this.
We live on the Lindo Channel here in Chico, which is an overflow for Chico Creek. The channel doesn’t have water in it most of the time as it’s designed for, well…overflow. Overflow isn’t really something we deal with a lot here in droughty California. But, when the rain comes down this much, this quickly, overflow is exactly what you get.
The above photo doesn’t even capture the high water mark, but I get down there to take photos when I can, not when I want to.
It’s going down pretty quickly, the photo above is roughly 24 hours later.
Since January 15, 2008 I've taken 18,784 photos with 7 different iPhone models.
Generally I've taken more photos with each successive iPhone model, with a little lull at 5S and 6S. The 11 Pro Max is probably going to come in lower just due to COVID. We haven't travelled hardly at all and that tends to be when I add a good number of photos to the collection.
I'm not sure if I think I've become a better photographer or if the camera technology just generates better photos, but over time the number of favorites has increased. Again, the 11 Pro Max is a COVID outlier.
Not exactly riveting data analysis, but the air quality is crap today so I was stuck inside and this is all I could think up.
Update: Based on some feedback I have corrected the number formating and added the number of days I had each phone.
Amazon provides an Order History Export function and it will give you everything back to 2006 in a CSV download. I dumped that into a Google Sheet, did a quick pivot table to get orders by year...just because.
Now, a few caveats...