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			<outline created="Sun, 20 May 2012 12:10:28 GMT" pgfnum="14143" text="Today's milestone ride -- all the way round the park -- with confidence.">
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			<outline created="Sun, 20 May 2012 12:10:43 GMT" pgfnum="14144" text="I had been taking a shortcut, eliminating the steepest part of the ride in Central Park, around the top of the park. I had ridden it before and always had found the hill a bit too much for my legs and my lungs. "></outline>
			<outline created="Sun, 20 May 2012 12:11:41 GMT" pgfnum="14145" text="This morning the conditions were ideal, I was feeling good, it was a very comfortable 60 degrees, no cars, not too much bike traffic and no pedestrians, so I went for it. Yes! It was very doable. I'm in good shape for this hill. Knock wood, IANAL, MMLM and all the usual disclaimers."></outline>
			<outline created="Sun, 20 May 2012 12:12:46 GMT" pgfnum="14146" text="Also, no matter how early you get out on a spring morning there's always something big going on in the park. Today it's the AIDS Walk. Hasn't started yet, but you can tell there will be a hundred thousand people walking where I was riding today. Things in NY scale like that. And Central Park is probably nothing like Olmstead imagined it, as a place for contemplation. It is, however, a place where the people of the city mingle. All classes, it seems. And people from all over the world."></outline>
			<outline created="Sun, 20 May 2012 12:14:32 GMT" pgfnum="14147" text="And since this may be the only blog post today, I'd like to add that Nic Cubrilovic probably summed up &lt;a href=&quot;https://twitter.com/#!/nikcub/status/204130815830016000&quot;&gt;Zuck's fabulous weekend&lt;/a&gt; best, from a male point of view. &quot;How can you beat IPO and married in the same weekend?&quot; he said &quot;Err, IPO and not married.&quot; My guess is that Zuck liked things pretty much as they were. But of course I'm projecting! :-)"></outline>
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