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These are some pictures from a run on De…

eschapp — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 16:02:25 +0000

These are some pictures from a run on December 2nd that I forgot I had on my camera. I ran from Cleveland Park through Columbia Heights and up to Fort Slocum Park. It was wet and cold, and I thought the rain had stopped. Of course once I was a couple of miles from home it began to rain again. It was a fun run nevertheless.

Tonight I have my Mergers and Acquisitio…

eschapp — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 20:39:26 +0000

Tonight I have my Mergers and Acquisitions Exam. In honor of the exam, and to blow off some steam I went for a run through DC this morning. The weather was really nice, and made me glad I wasn’t in ND, MN, or IA this week. It is a lot harder to run through snow. Running might be the best way to prepare for a stressful exam, but I am open to other suggestions as well that don’t have the word study in them¹.

Since I already study plenty. ↩

Run in the November Rain

eschapp — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:52:35 +0000

It rained in DC yesterday; in November. And not even the beginning of November: It rained on the 19th day of the month! I doubt I’ll get used to rain that late in the year. In North Dakota we were lucky if we saw sleet in November instead of inches of snow.¹

I really like to run in the rain, and so I just couldn’t help myself yesterday. It wasn’t raining all that hard, so I brought my camera. A couple of these picture might have some fog or water droplets in them, but here they are anyway:

For the record, I think my Dad told me it had rained in the first week of November this year in Fargo ↩

Photos: Cleveland Park Run

eschapp — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 18:57:14 +0000

I’m going to try out a new format for posting photos. I used to have a page showing an RSS feed of my recent running photos, but the plug in I used was both clunky and boring. I also didn’t like that there was no indication of the front page that I had updated the photo RSS. So while I updated the photos frequently, there was little other information with the photos to make them worth while to document.

So I’m going to try making some photo posts when I update my running pictures instead.

I generally run with my Blackberry and not with a “real” camera, so the quality of the images varies greatly. I’m hoping the next iteration of phones have higher quality cameras.

These photos are from June, 22 2009. I ran [if I can call it a run: I'm out of shape] back behind the National Zoo and then up along Connecticut Avenue from Woodley Park, back to Cleveland Park. I stopped to snap a couple of pictures:

This photo was taken from the west side of Conn Ave. I think I liked all of the signs on the building, but the sun was too bright to get a good snap shot of the all.

This is a picture looking down at the underbelly of the Conn Ave brigde which crosses Klingle Valley Park.

This is just another picture of some of the bridge’s features. I like to stop and look over the green railings; it must be the sense of vertigo that entertains me.

And here is a map with the photos’ locations marked, thanks to picasa. I had to take a screen capture and upload the image because apparently you can’t embed these maps. Hopefully they’ll add that feature soon, because not being able to have an interactive map embeded is unfortunate and janky.