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August 11, 2009
I had an interesting (penultimate) surfing session today. I was joined by two fellow CrossFitters: Robert Novy-Marx — one of my oldest friends, an scholar of finance and an independent CrossFitter, living in Chicago — and his brother-in-law Will Novy-Hildesley — a newer friend, and a member of CrossFit H.E.L. in Portland, OR (and Will [...] August 8, 2009
I surfed with my dad, James L. Baldwin, during the past two sessions, both at Short Sand Beach in Oswald West. I’ll spare you the details, except to say that each session topped one hour thirty minutes and that the first, on Friday, Aug. 7th (yesterday) was at Lena’s nap time and coincided with the [...] August 1, 2009
“Low and Slow” becomes “Lo, and No” Yesterday (Friday the 31st), Sean and I planned to extend our four day surfing streak to a fifth day, but we were foiled. We set out early as usual, departing before 5:30 am, and decided to check out Short Sand Beach for a change. The theme of the [...] July 28, 2009
The surfing isn’t too bad. But the eating is very good. Every so often a Flexible-Paleo-Zone diet has to give way to British Style Meat Pies. And corn chips. Etc. July 25, 2009
This morning I went surfing again with Ben Walsh, one of my oldest and dearest friends. I’ve known Ben since my 8th grade year (I guess that must have been 1983) when we were just a couple of semi-punk kids. He’s a very strong and competent athlete, a consummate gentleman, and a responsible husband, father, [...] July 24, 2009
I woke up this morning feeling a lot better. I am still troubled in the intestines — and no more details about that are needed — but feel fully recovered in body. Yesterday, whatever bug is in me had sapped and depleted my entire energy system. It left me me weak and achy. None of [...] July 22, 2009
I had a crazy deep sleep filled with strange dreams. It was interrupted once by Lena who seems to have had a nightmare (she spent the remainder of the night in our bed). I got rudely awakened at about 5:15 by Sean and Ben — there they were! just like we had planned — and [...] July 21, 2009
I got up at about 5:10 am, to help Lena, and stayed up. Sean was already awake, lying with eyes closed under an afghan in the living room. Little Casey had woken him and Mo up at 4:30 am. The winds were utterly still, the tide was very low (about -1.9 feet), and the twilit [...] July 19, 2009
Saturday, July 18th: The Morning Session Yesterday morning the surf report from NOAA was pretty favorable, although the visible appearance of the sea was not too desirable. Desperate to surf, I headed to Short Sand Beach in Smuggler Cove, a little bit later than usual. I left out at 7:17, and worked my ass off [...] July 9, 2009
This morning’s surf conditions: SW WIND 10 KT…BECOMING N IN THE AFTERNOON. WIND WAVES 1 FT. SW SWELL 4 FT AT 12 SECONDS…SHIFTING TO THE NW 5 FT AT 8 SECONDS. This description leaves out the part about being alone in the water in Smuggler’s Cove as the sun breaks over the hills at 6:15 [...] |
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