29JAN2022

 Another 1+15 at 3.5mph for 4.2 miles or so on the treadmill. 12.5# pack and 2x3# hand weights. 

Today's diversion was the Marianas Turkey Shoot and the Battle of the Philippine Sea in WWII. Odd to hear names and see places that I have actually been, and feel in some small way what the pilots who flew over those waters felt. The History Channel made it seem heroic, and decisive - I know from experience that there were a lot of soiled flight suits and 'decisions' made much later than they should have been; but the facts remain. Now here we are, 80 year later, still affected by the 'success' of our nation in that war. Arrogant, self-centered know-it-all's. We won because of a confluence of circumstances that allowed us tom mobilize, finally, resources in our one country that it would have taken a fully united Europe to muster. 

Then I watched a bit of a May transit of the Wainwright C-to-C in MISERABLE weather. Laughing all the way through rain and WIND and snow. 

Kelli did exercises today, for 30 minutes of stretching and strengthening. She's doing a great job of preparing and is excited not only for the Cotswold Way but anything else that catches her fancy. Maybe even a Camino? 

I also semi-casually mentioned that I had been considering flying the Brompton down to MIA to bike MIA-EYW over 3 days, but that the big snow storm this weekend has caused so many cancellations there'd be little chance of making it non-rev. She said, in all earnestness: "You know I would fully support an endeavor like that." So there you go. I have a by-your-leave, the method, the means and pretty much the time to do a mini-epic. If not this week, maybe the next or the one after. Winter in the Keys is a lovely thing.