6:55 pace 14.52/185 mi relay (Northwest Passage '08)
Short-Term Running Goals:
Weight
June 1: 163 157!
June 8: 161156
June 15: 159156
June 22: 157153
June 29: 155
July 6: 153
July 13: 151
July 20: 149August 1:149.6!
Races
Oct 26: Cape Cod Marathon
Long-Term Running Goals:
Emulate my stepfather -- still running at 87!
Personal:
I know a secret technique for opening mangos taught me by a Wolof sorcerer. I was briefly a political appointee at the U.N. I am intimately familiar with a disciple of David Hume.
Back on the road again at last. Coast Guard Beach to Nauset Light and back by Bracket Road. Temp was 80 degrees already by 6:30. Slight soreness, but nothing too serious, did a bunch of Hercules stretches before during and after. Seems okay. Going for a massage this week.
Nirvana Orange Miles: 7.00
Weight: 0.00
Calories: 0.00
Comments
From Burt on Mon, Jul 05, 2010 at 19:11:06 from 68.225.214.248
Teach me your mango opening trick. I got so frustrated yesterday opening one. It took forever!
From Aaron on Tue, Jul 06, 2010 at 11:00:38 from 76.118.42.29
Hi Burt. A mango is bilaterally symmetrical, a flattened ovoid. (1) Find the ridge of the pit that divides the fruit in two halves. (2) Take a sharp serrated knife (bread knife is good as with all melons) and cut off an oval as close to parallel with the ridge as you can. (3) Turn it over and repeat with the other side.
You should have two fleshy ovals with skin on one side and flesh on the other about as large in diameter as the fruit. (4) Turn each of them over and score the flesh deeply, all the way to the inside of the skin, but not cutting it, in a checkerboard pattern (five or six parallel lines at perpendiculars). (5) Holding the oval piece in two hands with the flesh facing toward you and the skin away from you, open the fruit up-- it should unfold like a flower with rectangular "petals." You can cut them off for salad or just eat them straight from the skin. (6) Enjoy!
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