BrunoJ

Trail run: City Creek Canyon, Salt Lake City UT

brunoj — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 22:03:52 +0000

I’ve run this trail millions of times, the north side of City Creek Canyon, starting from The Avenues

From the (lower) aves, you descend into the “memory grove” area down a huge set of stairs, probably 200 ft so. The trail is paved through the lower part of memory grove / city creek park and you take take the South side of the river, or the North side. The South side is a paved pedestrian path. I usually choose the North side though which is a dirt trail close to the canyon wall. Near the end of the trail section there are several ways out, but in the snow its hard to find them.

I used to run up this canyon several times a week with my old roommate. We even ran a Thanksgiving race up the canyon and back one year, 2001 I think. He beat me by a long ways.

Posted in maps, personal, running

Dec. 25 trail run to Puget Sound

brunoj — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 02:07:08 +0000

Ran from my friend’s house in Tacoma, down a huge gorge to Puget Sound and then up the waterfront a ways (and back); close to 6 miles. The gorge was prehistoric with giant ferns and trees everywhere. This was the best trail I’ve done since the Mesa Trail in Boulder.

Posted in maps, outside, running, Travel

Collecting frequent rides: part 1

brunoj — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 21:09:44 +0000

I feel like my days in Athens are numbered; I feel like I should write down and pass on all the great bike rides around here. Here are a few of my favorites to start. In this first installment I describe 3 rides which go North of town towards Jefferson, Commerce, etc.

(map thanks to GPS Visualizer)

Brockton Road to 441 (34 mi): This is a loop which short-cuts the longer 50 mi “Road to Nowhere” ride which is famous. The best part is near the interection of Brockton Loop and Brockton Road where you pass the cemetary. This spot of road is one of the highest points in the county at 850ft.

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(Street view)

The ride continues to State highway 441 and goes south on 441 for about a quarter mile. The traffic here is fast and furious, but I’ve never had any real problems riding down the shoulder. Once you get off 441, onto Old Kings Bridge Road, its smooth sailing until the hill going back into town on J. River Road.

GPS Data
(Mini) Road to Nowhere (28.8 mi): This is a more recent favorite of mine. The longer “Road to nowhere” is around 50 miles and has alot more turns and confusing spots near the midpoint than this route. The nice thing about this one is that once you start heading East off of Old Kings Bridge Road, you basically don’t make any turns until you get back to Athens at the end of Freeman Drive. Speaking of Freeman drive, the road is satanic:

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(Street view)

The street view doesn’t do it justice, but man it is steep and there are always dogs chasing you up it.

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J. River / Vincent Loop: This is a variation on the “J River Loop” that everyone rides. That loop is a little to small for my taste most days, it usually rides in well under an hour. It’s fun and hilly and all, but I like to add a little something to it at the end. So instead of heading back into town on J. River, I turn off on the first right after Archer School Grove hits J. River. This dumps you back onto Old Jefferson, the frontage road to State Hwy 129. Then you go back up J. River (backwards so to speak) and turn right on Vincent. From here there’s an awesome winding downhill that eventually leads to Newton Bridge Road (not so fun to ride on, but at least you get to go under the loop instead of over it like on Prince Ave on the way back to town.

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MY new encryption key

brunoj — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 23:37:19 +0000

The key’s randomart image is:

+--[ RSA 2048]----+
|        .        |
|       o         |
|        o        |
|     o o         |
|    . o S        |
|  ..   =         |
| +....  o        |
|=+o.oo..         |
|Xoo.Eo.          |
+-----------------+

Posted in computers, technical

Bike Athens Art Bash

brunoj — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 18:10:03 +0000

Some of my bike photography will be on sale for charity. Check it out:

Posted in bikes, personal, photography

Applications of Calculus to War

brunoj — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 15:28:44 +0000

.. from a colleague:

Yesterday, in his statement to congress explaining the timetable for withdrawal from Afghanistan, Robert Gates explained that the 2011 date was “an inflection point, if you will”.

Perhaps we can test our calculus students by having them explain what he meant by that.

Posted in math, news

Traveling to LA…

brunoj — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 03:27:17 +0000

Notes:
.. Sat next to a plasma physicist from atl to phx, works on a mega joule frequency tripled laser at Livermore
.. Had a better burrito in the Phoenix airport than I could get *anywhere* in the south
.. Imaculately dressed guy in a white dress shirt, blue slacks and both arms covered in tattoos, full sleve
.. Us air has brand new awesome planes with no tv’s, awesome
..

Posted in Travel

Loosenuts Kits!

brunoj — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 23:05:08 +0000

Our race team (Sunshine / Loosenuts) kits have finally arrived, just in time for the second race of the season! Note the profusion of pink jackalopes.

Posted in bikes, personal

My kingdom for this poster

brunoj — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 22:03:28 +0000

This poster was made by Cinelli after Hampsten won the 1988 Giro di Italia. There’s a newer version, made by Hampsten Cycles, but it doesn’t include the cool elevation profile for Passo Gavia (the snow covered mountain pass he’s climbing in the picture). Where, oh where can I find one?

Posted in bikes

At revision 666

brunoj — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 04:03:34 +0000

I use subversion (SVN) to handle revision control on important documents and data as well as to keep a sync’d backup of all my important stuff on my office computer. Every time you commit a change to the repository, one per working day usually, a new revision is created. I committed changes on a paper I’m working on today and in doing so reached revision 666.

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