Today the lovely Erica drove up from Philadelphia, braving DC traffic on our behalf to tour the National Mall with us ( Read more... )

Potomac CrossFit, 9.30am class. I took the Metro down to Clarendon, leaving Susan and Meg to sleep in. It's the largest box I've seen yet, though that still likely makes it smaller than the CrossFit Effects space ( Read more... )

A day lost in transit ( Read more... )

I began the day with a run - 2.5km out to the Toronto Power Station building, 50 burpees on the grass beside it (incentive to jump high if it gives you a view of the Falls when you do it), then 2.5km back. A fairly leisurely run: I was stopped at one point by an Italian couple who wanted their picture taken ( Read more... )

Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo. Sitting at the Buffalo airport waiting for a bus to the Rainbow Bridge. From there we can cross into Canada, where our hotel is situated ( Read more... )

Still raining this morning, and the buildings across the Charles that we'd seen so clearly the morning we checked in were now obscured by fog. Undaunted, we donned our raingear and took the train north to Salem ( Read more... )

I rose at 5.50am and failed to sneak out because the chain was on the hotel door. Thud ( Read more... )

We rose in the wee small hours of the morning to take the shuttle to JFK for what proved to be the shortest flight I've ever been on ( Read more... )

Sitting in a Starbucks opposite the entrance to the Long Island Rail Road. Drinking (you could probably guess) an iced coffee. Susan's queueing at the Post Office, Meg's gone back to the hotel to fetch a jumper. It's the coolest day we've had so far in NYC, though no less humid, and the forecast gives a 50% chance of rain ( Read more... )

A day of sports and exercise. It's the first morning of the trip that I'd set my alarm - wanting to make the 8am class at CrossFit NYC ( Read more... )