As always, his strategy was simple: go out hard, a pace just under five minutes per mile, and keep it up for 26.2 miles.
After warming up the engine, take the car up to 50 or 60 miles per hour, and keep it there for several miles.
Now when we bike together, we keep it short — around 15 miles.
All I had to do was keep it straight for another mile.
And even if you get the spill lit, the cold weather makes it difficult to maintain enough heat to keep it burning over many square miles.
I urgently begin to catalogue the journey in my head, trying to keep it alive, breathing - the 20,000 miles, the 27 countries, the thousands of people I've met, the great friends I've made, the incredible highs and the desolate lows - as if the minute I step ashore it will be nothing more than a half-remembered dream.
Most people can spot it a mile away, so keep it real and honest.
British maritime officials said the Lynn Rival's course would have kept it at least 800 miles southeast of the Somali coast at the point when Britain's Maritime Rescue Command, at its headquarters in the English coastal town of Falmouth, picked up a brief radio signal from the boat's emergency beacon at 11 p.m. British time on Friday.
(In the same letter, I thanked the airline for getting me to my destination despite a snowstorm. Perhaps it receives so few letters of thanks that it let me keep the miles).
Without hearing about any clear conclusion one way or the other if a merger will actually take place, does it behoove us to keep acquiring miles with US Air?
