Prospect Hill Park

Boston in the distance

One of the worst things about living in our apartment in Waltham is how difficult it is to get away from the traffic and noise of the roads and find a nice place to run. Many times I have repeatedly run up and down the same sidewalk just because it was so nice to actually have a sidewalk to run on. Today, though, I discovered a pretty sweet little 100 acre park called Prospect Hill only a couple of miles from our apartment. As you would expect it is hilly, but it is crisscrossed by 4-5 miles of paved and unpaved trails and rewarded some of the steeper climbs with nice views of Boston. I know it's surrounded by urbanity, but it was quiet enough to hear the snow flakes as they hit the leaves on much of the run.

Garmin's Version

Cruising Mahahual

Erica and I had a great time spending her spring break down in Mahahual, Mexico last week.

I only managed to run 3.5 miles last week while we were there, but it was a pretty sweet 3.5 miles.

Sea-Ice Algae

ScienceDaily (2011-03-07) -- Sea-ice algae -- the important first rung of the food web each spring in places like the Arctic Ocean -- can engineer ice to its advantage. The same gel-like mucus secreted by sea-ice algae as a kind of antifreeze against temperatures well below minus 10 C is also aallowing algae to sculpt microscopic channels and pores in ice that are hospitable to itself and other microorganisms.