Nike Missile Silo Run

Let me tell what this post is not. It is not a description of the place (the top of a rafter above a the sink in the men's bathroom next to an impossibly noir abandoned Nike ICBM-intercept missile silo at 34 deg 07'39.75"N 118 deg 48.46"W) where I would receive "information" about my "vacation" plans from certain former work "associates." It is not that.

It's about running. And gadgets.














I've been messing around more with importing my runs into Google Earth. I live right by the red dot for Santa Monica. Bruce's purple dot for his canyon in Malibu is in the distance. The Getty is the purple dot just in the bottom right quadrant. Zoomed in you can see the run--3.5 miles out and back on a ridge overlooking Santa Monica Bay (luckily the 405 is hidden from view).




I took my camera up on the run (you can never carry too many gadgets) hoping to get the usually good sunset shots I see. Instead, it was one of the few overcast days in SoCal. So you get Google Earth.





The pics sort of fizzled, but I don't know what else to do with them. Besides, how else would you see that my glasses are incredibly skewampas or see my Gorillapod in action. (Btw, Mr. Wiki says that word comes from askew + cattywampus. I choose not to believe that. )




I initially told Liz (warning this is a Mormon non-mom sans baby blog) that I wasn't going to post about the run because not everyone cares for the details. In her wisdom, Liz basically said everyone doesn't matter. So suffer. Heart rate tracked elevation more closely this time. The last few miles cruising down I hit my 6:45 pace. I can definitely get into form within a month. Fontana--I will eat your children!