Andrea Siegel, a reporter at The Baltimore Sun, covers mostly crime and courts in Annapolis and Anne Arundel County, as well as legal issues. She wishes she was more physically fit, and, as she's more fond of chocolate than exercise, fitness is a challenge. Her partner on a one-mile-plus daily walk is the family dog, a mixed breed named Moxie, and she exercises at the gym where the D.C. snipers once worked out.
Jerry Jackson has been a photo editor at The Baltimore Sun for 14 years and an avid cyclist for more than 30 years. Inspired by the movie "Breaking Away," he started racing as a teenager in Mississippi when leather "brain baskets" were still the norm. He regularly commutes to work by bike and still enters several mountain bike races a year for fun.
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Patrick Maynard, who will be writing about running and walking, has been a producer for baltimoresun.com since 2008. In 2009, he tweeted on-course for the Sun from the Baltimore Marathon, finishing in just under 4 hours and almost managing to run the whole time. He sometimes walks to the Sun offices on Calvert Street.
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Leeann Adams, a multimedia editor at The Baltimore Sun, also dabbles in content for the mobile website and iPhone app and covers the Ravens via video. She did a triathlon to celebrate her 40th birthday and continues to swim, bike and run -- none of them quickly, though. Her biggest fitness challenge is to balance working, working out, spending time with her husband and being a mom to a 6-year-old boy.
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Anica Butler, the Sun's crime editor, is a former high school runner and recovering vegetarian who spent more of her early-adult years on a bar stool than working out. She is currently training (though poorly) for a half marathon and is trying to live a generally healthier lifestyle. She also hates the gym.
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Let me get this straight: It takes OVER A YEAR--in fact, NEARLY TWO years--to DESIGN, APPROVE, and REPAIR a section of trail less than a quarter-mile long?!?!?!?
Did the entire railroad between Baltimore and Annapolis take that long to build once construction was started in the 1880s?
Posted by: Alexander D. Mitchell IV | January 24, 2011 2:46 PM
Thanks for the comment. It made me curious. Here's what mdoe.org has to say about the period of original construction:
... in 1880, a group of New England promoters organized the Annapolis & Baltimore Short Line to build a direct 26-mile line southeast from Baltimore, roughly following the old Annapolis Road. The project proceeded at a leisurely pace, with new “Short Line” trains eventually starting at the B&O’s Camden Station in Baltimore and heading in almost a straight line through sparsely populated farmland to the Severn, where a long timber trestle took them across the wide Severn River estuary to Annapolis. In early March 1887, the first train entered the new Short Line’s Bladen St. station in Annapolis.
More: http://www.mdoe.org/balt_annap_rr.html
Posted by: Patrick Maynard | January 24, 2011 3:06 PM
Actually, it was quite typical for railroads in that time period to have a substantial lag time between being chartered or registered with the state and actually being built. One 45-mile railroad in my home area was chartered in mid-1865, but construction started in 1870 and was completed in November 1871. I would suspect that by Wednesday (weather permitting) I'll have my hands on the books I need to have a firm answer for the B&A.
My point remains the same, however: two cotton-pickin' years for less than a quarter-mile of simple asphalt........
Oh, great, the captcha is "railroad germane....."
Posted by: Alexander D. Mitchell IV | January 24, 2011 10:52 PM
It's nice that repairs are being made to the B&A trail in Pasadena to keep it pretty. One suggestion I have though is to instead use that money to put up cameras in the areas where people are frequently being robbed, assaulted, and raped. I would think protecting the citizens who use the trail from harm would take priority...
Posted by: Shackleford | January 25, 2011 11:18 AM