With only 8 days until the French Guiana Marathon, I am in
full taper mode. That means fattening myself up(errr. “replenishing my muscle
glycogen stores”), getting copious amounts of sleep and reducing my run volume.
This week, my mileage will be less than half what it was at its peak.
Side-Note: I hope
you have heard of the confirmation bias by now. It’s when you ignore argument
against your position and seek out and respond only to those points that agree
with your position.
Because of this bias, you confirm your original hypothesis
but only because you are not open-minded about the hypothesis. Case in point.
My taper. Some taper plans wouldn’t have me drop so dramatically nor taper for
as long as I have, BUT I have found internet websites that agree with me. And
all those that don’t? I ignore them. Oh you agree with them? Then I’ll ignore
you too and enjoy my taper time, thank you very much ;)
Okay so regardless if you think I have an overabundance of
tapering in my marathon training, I do. And that means that today, a Saturday,
which usually would involve a long(ish) run and then a shorter afternoon run
was totally free until shorter(ish) evening run. So I decided to do a tour of
Georgetown.
This is partially due to the fact that my mom was asking me about
where I lived and I couldn’t really do it justice. Georgetown is totally
different than New Amsterdam in all ways positive(except no cane fields to run
in).
Armed with a water bottle and my new amazing Cannon digital
camera which handily fits comfortably in my pocket, I took off to reconnoiter
for my mum.
After last post’s diatribe on the
importance of reading, I figured
I better appease all my TV watchers out there. This blog will be pretty much
just pictures from here on out. Enjoy
J
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My apartment |
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Another view |
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My street |
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Church St Park- A few blocks from my place |
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A church |
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Georgetown's Supreme Court |
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Staebrock Market- I read one description that said( that this isn't a direct quote) once the site of the slave trade market now it is a site for a different type of slave trade: that of sweat shops and cheaply made products. I can see that... |
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The bus park |
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One of the highest wooden structures in the world? |
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The National Library-created with the help of Andrew Carnegie in 1907 |
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One of my favorite streets in GEO |
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Not sure if you can read it, but that's an Ice Factory |
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The Prime Minister's residence |
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The lighthouse at the junction of the River and Ocean |
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Molasses to supply the rum distillers |
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A koker to keep the town from flooding. Thank you Netherlands! |
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The Harbor |
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The Ocean |
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A lot of random dead fish... maybe bait? |
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A memorial for the Amerindians-a benab in the middle of the city |
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Cricket |
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The National Park where I do most of my running |
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The manatees that swim beside me as I run |
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National park |
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Oversized lily pads.
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So that's the end of the tour. Hope you got to see a side of Georgetown that you may not hear about. It is definitely beautiful down here, and it's a good day for the race.
Until next time,
Danny
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