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The soon to be torn down Transbay Terminal. I’ve been trying to take photos of it before it’s gone. So far I’ve been commuting through here for four years.

More photos here.

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The Dick Houston Memorial Woodminster is a cross country race here in Oakland now in its 42nd year. You might not normally associate Oakland with cross country racing opportunity, but in fact Oakland is bordered to the East with beautiful hills that hold some great trail running. Redwood shaded creeks that are great for hiking and steep rough terrain which makes for tough running.

Originally we were going to run this race, a 9 mile event which runs over some of the toughest course you could imagine around here. Instead, we decided it was time to work on running longer and not potentially injure ourself on this. So, rather than run it I decided to take some photos.

Woodminster is a handicap race, different age groups leave one after another. If I was in it I’d be 4 minutes in front of the fastest group (the young men), and about 20 minutes behind Patty in the old ladies group. Here’s a couple of photos from the start:

Runners coming down the hill near the finish:

The trails are mostly like this, although there’s hills which bring the whole field to a walk. Last year we were hiking on the day of this race and had a nice conversation with one of the racers as we walked up one of the more serious hills.

Here are a few more photos of the runners. This first one is the winner, Roy Rivers.

And I think this is the first place woman:

The rest of the photos are here, and the organizers were excited enough to have some one take photos they sent out a link to my photos with the race results and on their page.

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Did I mention it’s cold here? And starved for daylight. But then I’m spoiled by living in North California. Really it’s not cold or dark at all. It’s not like I’m out running in 3 degrees. It just feels that way.

This is really a test. You can type a document in Google Docs (formally Writely) and then post to this blog from there. Somehow that seems like it could be useful. For one, a dedicated word processor should be a better environment for composing text. And for another, it keeps my postings with my other documents.

However, adding images could be easier. Once I download an image from my D70, it’s a huge 3k image. Just as well I don’t have a 12 Mega-pixel camera, or there’d be even more pixels to deal with. Then I need to add it to the text. But I can’t just drag and drop it, and the browser for mechanism is docs is pretty basic. Resizing needs to be typed in as pixels, both x and y. No way to fix an aspect ratio that I can see.

I’ll try the same process from Blogger and see how that is.

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