PLYMOUTH, INDIANA (DAY 60)

After scooting into Ohio for one day, I was back in Indiana by late Thursday afternoon.
I arrived at my hotel in Plymouth, Indiana just before dark.
Undeterred, I changed by clothes, grabbed my headlamp and flashlight and set out for a hike.
When I returned, I had logged 7 miles.
My caloric consumption, could arguably be said to be in the neighborhood of 1000.
And that was that.
DAY 60
One more day, and I get to weigh myself on Saturday morning...

AIRPORT NEAR MIDNIGHT

My appointment in Danville, Illinois was for 1:00PM.  I left Chicago right around 9:30AM to insure that I would arrive on time. My visit to the Danville location lasted until about 5:30PM. My hotel reservation for the night was still an additional two hours away in Springfield. My plans to watch the New York Yankees play was amended. I did not arrive at my hotel room until about 8:30PM. By this time the Yankee game was already underway and the score was tied 3-3. Apparently the 1st inning took 45 minutes. I had flirted with the idea of watching the game while stepping in place in my hotel room. But the mild night, the bright sky lit up by the near full moon beckoned me outdoors. I decided to head for Abraham Lincoln Capital Airport and hike around its complete perimeter. When I finished my hike, I had logged ten miles and it was near midnight. It felt so good to maintain my recent streak of walking everyday which began anew in September. I don't know how active this airport is, I never saw even one plane land or take-off. 

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Your Food Diary For:

Tuesday, October 3, 2017

BREAKFAST	Calories kcal	Carbs g	Fat g	Protein g	Sodium mg	Sugar g
Quaker Oats Instant Grits	400	88	6	8	1,240	0
Bagel w/Cream Cheese	400	58	12	13	780	4
	800	146	18	21	2,020	4
L U N C H
Culvers - Butterburger Plain Hamburger	360	39	16	20	510	6
	360	39	16	20	510	6
D I N N E R
Landshire Sandwiches - Ham & Cheese, 2	520	64	16	36	2,480	14
	520	64	16	36	2,480	14
S N A C K S
Nature Valley - Oats 'n Honey	190	29	7	3	180	11
Ice Cream Sandwich	100	14	4	1	50	7
	290	43	11	4	230	18
Totals	1,970	292	61	81	5,240	42
Your Daily Goal	3,310	414	110	166	2,300	124
Remaining	1,340	122	49	85	-2,940	82
	Calories kcal	Carbs g	Fat g	Protein g	Sodium mg	Sugar g
	*You've earned 1,380 extra calories from exercise today

If every day were like today...   You'd weigh 223.7 lbs in 5 weeks     

NORTHERLY ISLAND WITH MY DAUGHTER

One of my favorite places to hike around Chicago is Northerly Island. Northerly Island was once the home of a small airport which our previous Mayor bulldozed away in the dark of night nearly 15  years ago. It was turned into a beautiful quiet park with stupendous views of Chicago. My daughter who has accompanied me many times on urban hikes has wanted to keep the hiking to the city streets. Finally, she agreed to join me in Northerly Island.  I would hope that she will hike with me there more often. It is a great place to take pictures and a great place to enjoy some moments of solitude for a city dweller.

'Panoramic' view of Chicago skyline from Northerly Island.

Your Food Diary For:

Saturday, January 14, 2017

BREAKFAST	Calories kcal	Carbs g	Fat g	Protein g	Sodium mg	Sugar g
Omelette - 3-egg Omelette With Cheese, 3 eggs	425	0	21	28	650	2
Kirkland - Pre-Cooked Bacon	160	0	12	12	700	0
Trader Joes - Hash Brown Patties	260	28	16	2	500	0
	845	28	49	42	1,850	2
L U N C H
Cabbage Soup	400	41	1	9	313	23
Pepperidge Farm - Sourdough Bread	300	55	4	10	550	5
	700	96	5	19	863	28
D I N N E R
Bob Evans - Blackened Whitefish	300	8	11	43	3,612	1
Broccoli Cheese Casserole	400	19	27	27	790	1
Fire Roasted Corn	200	32	15	5	404	3
	900	59	53	75	4,806	5
S N A C K S
Dark Chocolate Coconut Chews	400	40	28	4	50	26
	400	40	28	4	50	26
Totals	2,845	223	135	140	7,569	61
Your Daily Goal	4,314	539	143	216	2,300	161
Remaining	1,469	316	8	76	-5,269	100
	Calories kcal	Carbs g	Fat g	Protein g	Sodium mg	Sugar g
	*You've earned 2,384 extra calories from exercise today

Your Exercise Diary for:

Saturday, January 14, 2017

Cardiovascular	Minutes	Calories Burned
THIRTEEN MILE URBAN HIKE	199	2,192
Daily Total / Goal	199 / 30	2,192 / 590
Weekly Total / Goal	647 / 210	5,445 / 4,130

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from wikipedia.com

Meigs Field was demolished by a mayor Richard M. Daley in 2003. It is now Northerly Island in 2010.

Meigs Field Airport alongside Burnham Harbor in 2002, before its demolition.

Merrill C. Meigs Field Airport (ICAO: KCGX) was a single runway airport in Chicago which was in operation from December 1948 until March 2003, on Northerly Island, an artificial peninsula on Lake Michigan. Northerly Island was also the site of the Century of Progress (1933–34) in Chicago. The airport sat adjacent to downtown Chicago, the second largest business district in North America. Meigs Field airport was closed when the then-mayor of Chicago, Richard M. Daley, ordered the runway destroyed, with bulldozers, without the thirty-day notice required by Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) regulations.

Meigs Field airport was opened on 10 December 1948, and, by 1955, had become the busiest single-strip airport in the United States. The latest air traffic tower was built in 1952 and the terminal was dedicated in 1961. The airfield was named for Merrill C. Meigs, publisher of the Chicago Herald and Examiner and an aviation advocate.

Northerly Island, owned by the Chicago Park District, is the only lakefront structure to be built based on Daniel Burnham's 1909 Plan of Chicago. The island was to be populated by trees and grass for the public enjoyment by all.

THINK PINK

The various subway lines in Chicago are color coded. Before making a trip to Midway Airport to fly to New York my first stop was at the dentist for a checkup and routine cleaning.  My wife dropped me off at 9:30AM for my 10:00AM appointment. Directly from the dentist my plan was to take the subway, which is right across the street from the dentist, and travel to Midway Airport. The one wrinkle in that plan was that the 'pink' line train near my dentist does not go the Midway Airport. I figured out that I was going to have to take the train back to downtown Chicago and transfer to an 'orange' line train to get to the airport.  Due to Hurricane Matthew, still more than 2000 miles away from New York, my original Southwest flight scheduled to depart at 3:00PM was delayed 3 hours. In the early morning, I rebooked my flight to the 1:00PM flight which was also delayed, but only by 2 hours and 20 minutes, which meant that it was scheduled to depart at 3:20PM (a mere 20 minutes later than my original flight.) My dentist visit was completed at 11:30AM.  I had plenty of time to get to the airport, and then I had an idea.  I decided to THINK PINK. I would take the 'pink' line train which does not go to Midway Airport and get off the train and walk to the airport.  That walk turned out to be 4 miles. When I arrived at the airport, my 1:00PM flight, which had been scheduled to depart at 3:20PM, had been pushed back even further to 3:55PM.  This gave me time to walk a bit more.  So after I ostensibly had arrived at Midway Airport, I 'circumnavigated' the airport, and by the time that I actually entered the terminal at 2:30PM, I had walked 8 miles.  I was very pleased to have squeezed in an 8 mile hike on a day that I thought I would surely not get a chance to walk or do any exercising at all. This particular walk was accomplished in my street clothes, wearing my backpack and wheeling along my carry-on luggage.  I did not walk at my normal 'blistering pace' of 13 minutes per mile, but I wasn't cheated out of a day of exercise either, so it felt great.  My flight did finally depart at 4:00PM, and I finally arrived at my Mom's home at around 8:30PM. We had a delicious Chinese dinner at a nearby restaurant, as guests of my Mom's friend, John.

After getting off the pink line subway train, I walked 8 miles before I came to this spot just before finally entering the airline terminal and subjecting myself to a full body search by TSA agents who didn't like how my entire upper body lit up in their body scanner. I guess the heat emanating from my body after walking 8 miles was mistaken by the machine as residue from a bomb-making factory.

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Eight mile urban hike from the Pink line train to Midway Airport

I usually weigh myself on Saturday, but this time I weighed myself on Friday before I left for New York.  I am simply going to pretend that this was my weight on Saturday.  I actually have gone on trips and brought my scale with me, but for this trip to New York I only brought 'carry-on' luggage, so there was no room to bring a bathroom scale. My weight this week is 219.4 (still down 90 pounds from where I started on December 24, 2014)

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Your Food Diary For:

Friday, September 30, 2016

BREAKFAST	Calories kcal	Carbs g	Fat g	Protein g	Sodium mg	Sugar g
Roundy's - Maple & Brown Sugar Oatmeal	600	120	10	20	1,300	20
	600	120	10	20	1,300	20
L U N C H
Subway - Footlong Turkey Breast on Wheat	560	92	17	36	1,890	11
	560	92	17	36	1,890	11
D I N N E R
Miso Soup	100	9	4	7	1,188	3
Tempura Vegetables	400	91	3	4	134	23
Chinese Beef and Broccoli	300	7	17	28	592	2
Shrimp With Brocolli	300	40	14	26	0	22
Chinese - Fortune Cookie	30	7	0	0	22	4
	1,130	154	38	65	1,936	54
S N A C K S
Reese's Peanut Butter Cup	110	12	6	2	75	11
Southwest Airlines Lightly Salted Peanuts	70	2	6	3	95	0
Generic - Luna Chocolate Dipped Coconut	200	24	8	9	190	8
Red Delicious Apple, 1 medium apple	95	25	0	1	2	19
Chocolate Brownie	200	37	4	8	134	18
Sprinkles - Cupcake	250	29	15	2	0	0
	925	129	39	25	496	56
Totals	3,215	495	104	146	5,622	141
Your Daily Goal	3,336	417	111	167	2,300	125
Remaining	121	-78	7	21	-3,322	-16
	Calories kcal	Carbs g	Fat g	Protein g	Sodium mg	Sugar g
	*You've earned 1,406 extra calories from exercise today

If every day were like today...   You'd weigh 208 lbs in 5 weeks.


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Your Exercise Diary for:

         Friday, September 30, 2016

Cardiovascular	Minutes	Calories Burned
8 MILE URBAN HIKE	124	1,328
Daily Total / Goal	124 / 30	1,328 / 590
Weekly Total / Goal	851 / 210	12,400 / 4,130

OCTOBER 1, 2015 
ONE YEAR AGO TODAY....
THIS IS WHERE I WAS...
...ON THE SUMMIT OF HALF DOME IN YOSEMITE PARK.

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Hurricane Matthew which as of Friday Night was 1221 miles southeast of Tampa, Florida was already causing airline delays in Chicago yesterday?  This does not bode well for my return trip to Chicago on Tuesday.

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UBER DRIVER

My Mom and her brother came to Chicago from New York this weekend for a wedding. I promised them both that I would be their personal uber driver during their 48 hour visit. Although I kept my promise, I still managed to get my walking accomplished as well.  On Friday when I picked them up at the airport, I walked 3 miles around O'Hare airport before I met them at the luggage carousel.  Friday afternoon we did some sightseeing, and while my guests rested before a Friday night party on a Chicago Party Boat, I had enough time to sneak in a seven mile walk before I had to don my uber hat again and drive them to the riverfront.  I spent the whole morning and afternoon with my Mom on Saturday. The high point of the day was watching The Thunderbird Jets as part of the Chicago Air and Water Show. We watched from the rooftop or our building.  

This photo was taken as these four jets flew directly over us on the 24th floor rooftop.

On Saturday night, I drove my Mom and my Uncle to the wedding which was about five miles from downtown (30 minutes with traffic) and since the parking lot seemed rather secure, I decided to park the car, and do my walking from that location. I dropped my guests off at 6:45PM and I picked them up at 11:45PM.  During that downtime, I managed a 17 mile walk, and I managed a quick healthy dinner at Mariano's.  Have I previously mentioned that I like to walk?  My hike was all over the to no place in particular, the one particularly nice spot I found was a short Canalport Riverwalk.

My favorite photo taken yesterday was me and my Mom in front of a Chicago store.  I can't say that I shop there often, but I do seem strangely attracted to the shop.

Does my Mom seem young or what? Couldn't we pass for brother and sister?

Your Food Diary For:

Saturday, August 20, 2016

BREAKFAST	Calories kcal	Carbs g	Fat g	Protein g	Sodium mg	Sugar g
Quaker - Grits - Instant - Original, 3 packet	300	66	0	6	930	0
	300	66	0	6	930	0
L U N C H
Italy Restaurant pizza quatro formaggi	700	86	26	28	0	10
Arrugula Salad	6	1	0	1	6	0
Chocolate Eataly - Chocolate	200	19	14	0	8	16
	906	106	40	29	14	26
D I N N E R
Bush's - Baked Beans	300	62	2	13	1,177	26
Cranberry Walnut Cabbage Slaw	200	19	14	3	167	0
Chicken 3 oz - Chicken Breast	300	0	4	65	158	0
	800	81	20	81	1,502	26
S N A C K S
Luna Bar - White Chocolate Macadamia	200	25	7	9	190	8
	200	25	7	9	190	8
Totals	2,206	278	67	125	2,636	60
Your Daily Goal	6,176	772	206	309	2,300	231
Remaining	3,970	494	139	184	-336	171
	Calories kcal	Carbs g	Fat g	Protein g	Sodium mg	Sugar g
	*You've earned 4,246 extra calories from exercise today

If every day were like today...   You'd weigh 164.6 lbs in 5 weeks 

       Your Exercise Diary for:

Saturday, August 20, 2016

Cardiovascular	Minutes	Calories Burned
Walking	237	3,137
Daily Total / Goal	237 / 30	3,137 / 590
Weekly Total / Goal	1780 / 210	20,904 / 4,130