After a 4 day hiatis, I did a 6 mile run on the Point Mallard trail today. It was very nice weather today, warm and sunny, after a week that was cold and/or rainy often. The podcast I listened to was interviewing a bunch of old guys who were in the fledgling space program when Sputnik went up and shook everything up. One of the perspectives they shared was that the US wasn't really behind the soviets at the time. In fact, the reason that the soviets had such large launch vehicles to use was that they couldn't make ICBM warheads as small as the US could, so they had these huge million pound thrust rockets. Neither side was expecting the publicity and attention that Sputnik got in the press and the public eye, and it ignited the space race. It was even put forth that without Sputnik and the uproar it caused about the soviets beating the US into space, that the lunar program wouldn't have happened. As it was, we had the technology on hand and assembled already necessary to do it ourselves within 90 days of Sputnik. Von Braun said he could do it in 30 days, no problem, but was talked into 90 to be conservative. A lot of the narrative described the people and this work taking place at Redstone in Huntsville AL, just 20 miles from where I was running today.
I got a blister on my heel running today, even though I was using the shoes I've been running in with no problems for weeks. No explanation.
| Total Time (h:m:s) |
0:44:34 |
7:24 pace |
| Moving Time (h:m:s) |
0:44:35 |
7:24 pace |
| Distance (mi ) |
6.02 |
| Moving Speed (mph) |
8.1 avg. |
11.9 max. |
| Elevation Gain (ft) |
+102 / -101 |
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| Temperature (°F) |
62.6°F avg. |
62.6°F high |
| Wind Speed ( mph) |
WNW 5.8 avg. |
WNW 8.1 max. |
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