Biking In The Cold

Posted by banane on February 17th, 2006 — in fitness

Looking North from Chrissy Field, the estuary and bay in background
Biking In the Cold
So it’s freezing here the past two days. I decided to do the bike loop from the Ferry Building up and around the Warming Hut, basically directly under the Golden Gate Bridge. It’s a nice low-traffic way, especially in the afternoon on [...]

Mission Cliffs

Posted by banane on February 1st, 2006 — in fitness

Credit to riverstone
The flats of potrero hill, or “bottom of the hill” I guess, has changed a lot. I was there to check out for the first time: Mission Cliffs. I guess I used to visit BAVC (the bay area video coalition), gordon’s, the brewery, and other hotspots from the dot com era. Now, it’s [...]

30 stockton day 3

Posted by banane on June 17th, 2005 — in Uncategorized, fitness, north beach

Overheard, two adolescent Asian boys. “Have you hard Mosh from Eminem?” “Yeah, duh.” “It rocks.” “Yeah?” “It’s like, about Bush.” “Huh.” “Like, AK47s and stuff.” “Dude.” Makes me think, at this rate of acquisition, that Eminem should have released his song years before the actual election, not a few weeks.
They also talked in depth about [...]

On the Roof

Posted by banane on June 7th, 2005 — in fitness, north beach

the roof of my house has a great view of Coit Tower, Angel Island, maybe Golden Gate Bridge. People see all kinds of things. Friend last night wanted to find work, downtown. Seemed weird to kind of peer through the skyscrapers to find the structure you work in every day. And to your back is [...]

Up Grant Street and Labyrinth

Posted by banane on May 30th, 2005 — in fitness, local color, walk to work

I keep on finding interesting routes to common destinations. On the way back from Film Yard, the video store, this afternoon, I found a cool intersection. One alley between another, Pfeiffer and something (not on mapquest) between Chestnut and Francisco. Really charming! In a kind of undiscovered way (impossible since it is one block off [...]

purpose of this blog

Posted by banane on March 31st, 2005 — in fitness, local color, north beach, walk to work

Originally, it was actually a workout blog that I was going to share with my mom and sis’s, but now it’s evolved into a “local color” blog after several life events meant I was going to move to a new neighborhood, and my exercise and appreciation of my new neighborhood combined in daily walks to [...]

it’s all coming back to me…

Posted by banane on November 29th, 2004 — in fitness

The neuroses of a fitness addicted person… coming back to me slowly but surely. I’ve started to realize just how tight my (whatever are remaining) muscles are, and they are in a pretty sad state. Some things coming out of head trauma are: life is too short not to eat mint ice cream!!!
Dropped off car [...]