I’m going to stop posting on here for a long while. Possibly forever.

When I first started this site, my employer was the Annapolis Capital, a wonderful paper that (at the time) had no running or transportation blogs. Now, however, I work for the Baltimore Sun, which within the last year has launched both a wonderful transportation blog and, more recently, a very nice running section. Since these vastly outdo my blog in terms of quality and quantity, I’m happy to say that it’s now quite redundant.

That said, I’d still love to see you at a Friday meetup, as those will continue.

Photo credit: sxc.hu

Friday, October 9, 2009
Maryland Department of Transportation
Helen Delich Bentley Conference Room
7201 Corporate Center Drive -2nd Floor
Hanover, MD

Transit directions from downtown Baltimore

A full list of Maryland’s pedestrian/cycle public meeting times can be viewed here.

September 9 was planned as a big day for Dubai.

The government folks in Dubai were set to launch both a new record-holding skyscraper and a major piece of the transit system today.

And then they weren’t set to launch them both anymore after all.

But it still looks like it’s going to be a nice rail system, complete with wi-fi and other splendid tricks. It should go a long way toward repairing a perceived weakness in the city, which has long been viewed as less pedestrian-friendly than some other cosmopolitan metros. Details on the new trains can be found here.

View Running meetup spot in a larger map

This was a good suggestion. Thanks to Richard for the comment.

Now I just need to manage to show up. I’ve missed it the last two weeks.

A reminder: Metro is operating on a Saturday schedule tomorrow.

http://www.wmata.com/about_metro/news/PressReleaseDetail.cfm?ReleaseID=2652

Here are some choices for this week:

What I’ll be doing: Something that’s Not Here. We’re going to visit family.

Other options: A chance to throw pacing to the wind and go completely nuts.

In the future: A 50K, a run on the beach and a test of your city knowledge.

As always, you can see a full list of upcoming road races, transit events, training rides, walks, and runs via the on-foot calendar of events.

Well, that was a relief. Despite the Washington Metro’s Red Line mishap, everything seems to have turned out ok.

Now our Baltimore MARC schedule (and prices!*) can go back to normal.

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* See this old story if that comment about MARC prices makes no sense.

I normally try to avoid making this a blog about itself, but this change is worth mentioning.  I’ve switched to a new publishing system, going from Blogger to WordPress.

I’m now using a modified version of the Deep Silent theme. In changing looks, for the new year, I decided to use as many current design cliches as I could manage, so there are shinies, grit, swirlies and, as always, a nice garish color indicative of either corporate greenwashing, Web 2.0 or horrible cat indigestion. I thought about adding scan lines and gradients to the header as well, but I figured the shoe and title would be completely invisible/illegible if I did that. Enjoy!*

*And let me know if you see any obvious bugs in the new template. Thanks.