back in sixty minutes
it doesn’t have the ring of "gone in sixty seconds" but it describes my morning. temps were in the low 40’s and the sky was clear. my wife was up making chili to bring to her work. ah…the smell of browning hamburger wafted in the house as i walked upstairs. honestly, chili didn’t seem appetizing at 5AM. my wife wished me well and i headed out the door for my morning constitutional.
i checked it out online and what i had thought was the "big dipper" was actually part of "orion". (orion…great tune by metallica…off the album "master of puppets") the "big dipper" is indeed in the eastern sky at the moment. without sounding uber geek…i did learn that it’s actually part of a larger constellation (Ursa Major – "Great Bear"). it’s still perplexes me how people dreamed up the names/shapes of constellations.
regardless, i headed out and back on the glacial drumlin trail with the midpoint of bethesda park. i was a bit under 30 minutes on the way out and a bit under 29 minutes on the way back. overall, i covered 7 miles in 59 minutes and change which translates to a little faster than 8:30 pace.
Here’s linkage to the star charts…http://www.wunderground.com/sky/index.asp