RSS FeedRoundup: Heard In The ‘Hood
Downtown – The Borderstanians (between Dupont and Logan) point out an article on NatGeo’s blog comparing all ten (!) inexpensive bus services between Washington DC and New York City. [Borderstan]
Columbia Heights – Cowboys spotted riding horses on 14th Street. Really. Cowboys…on horses…with hats. [New Columbia Heights]
Southwest – Our friends across the Mall remind us that the Parade of Lighted Boats will take place the first Saturday of December. [SWDCBlog]
The (Mount Vernon) Triangle – A nice job using a Google mashup to show 2008’s reported crimes in the Mount Vernon Triangle. [The Triangle]
Hooters Goes Wireless
Nothing serious or hard hitting this afternoon morning…in fact, quite the opposite. We’re just a bit puzzled by the new marketing strategy from Hooters corporate in Atlanta where you get free Wi-Fi with your food. We can see it now…the top five advertising slogans for Hooters’ (825 7th St NW) free Wi-Fi…
5) Come for the nachos, stay for the Wi-Fi
4) Delightfully tacky yet 802.11b with WPA encryption running at 54Mbps unrefined
3) Our Wi-Fi is hotter than our wings
2) Hey Wi-Fi! Oh, yeah! (1970s/1980s Kool Aid ad homage)
1) They don’t wear orange short shorts at Starbucks!
(Check past the break for a close up photo)
The Finish Line
For those of us who get the majority of our daily exercise jogging outdoors, fall & winter can be brutal. The cold, wind, and darkness make getting yourself out of bed early or motivating yourself after work exceedingly difficult. We’re constantly trying to come up with ways to make our jogs more fun while trying to keep our minds off the face-numbing cold.
One way we’ve tried to keep ourselves going is by picking our finish line. There is a tree directly in front of (behind? whatever the Mall side is considered) the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. All of the other trees are on the grassy areas that cover the mall, but this tree is directly in the pedestrian path, and we love it. Situated at about 10th ST, we use this often as our starting point for our early morning jogs, and we always use it as our finish line.
Creating a finish line for our daily jogs has helped us in some of our recent street races. As we’ve been pushing ourselves for the last 3 tenths of a mile every morning, we find we’ve got more in the tank at the finish line of a real race.
Do any of our readers have any mental tips or tricks to help with these cold winter runs?
Photo Of The Week: City Center Excitement Builds
Today, we post an image of the conceptual design poster that was recently installed at the southeast corner of the Old Convention Center parking lot (9th & H St NW). Ground breaking on the 4 square block mega-development, City Center, will begin in March 2009 (pdf).
