Woke up after another good night's sleep, fairly early but I had gone to bed fairly early as well. Got ready for an early-morning bike ride with Paula, leaving from our house. It was overcast with a chance of rain, but we didn't see so much as a sprinkle during the entire ride. We headed up Aguamiel Rd to Duenda Rd and took it over to Escala Dr. That little climb after the dip is short but challenging. She handled it well, is becoming a better climber for sure. We then rode to Pomerado Rd and turned right taking it (it was busy with morning traffic) up to Paseo Verano, where we turned left and rode through the Oaks North neighborhood to get to Bernardo Winery. Just past the winery is a sidewalk that you can take to get into the Valle Verde neighborhood, and that's what we did. Paused after this for a picture to send to Blair on his birthday, then we continued on Old Winery Rd up to Valle Verde Rd, turning right there and taking it over to Espola Rd. We turned left and rode up to Bridlewood Rd, turning there and riding through that nice neighborhood on Summer Sage Rd to Lake Poway Rd, then Riparian Rd to Titan Way and back to Espola Rd. Down the hill to Twin Peaks Rd, which also had a lot of traffic to deal with. At Pomerado Rd Paula reminded me that this was her last day at HP. I felt bad for not remembering, need to be better with things like that. We stayed on this road until turning onto Paseo Lucido. Had to be a little careful going through morning traffic around the schools. We stayed on Paseo Lucido until turning right onto Bernardo Heights Pkwy and taking it to Bernardo Center Dr, where we turned left and rode up to the HP site. Through the parking lot and over to the sign in front, where we took pictures to commemorate her last day. Then it was back home the normal way from there.
Avg speed = 13.1 mph. Total mileage = 18.9 mi
Avg power = 110 W. Weighted avg power = 150 W
Total elevation gain = 1530'
Avg heartrate = 108 bpm (Coospo)
Relative Effort = 20
Training Load = 77
Intensity = 68%
When I got home, I asked Ann if she was still interested in going to the Miramar Air Show. Somewhat surprising to me, she said yes, so I had a quick shower, we took some food and chairs and headed over to Miramar MCAS. It was interesting just driving through the base to where they had us park. It is, of course, like a little city there. From the parking lot to the flight line, it was about a 30-minute walk at an easy pace. Fairly light security at the gate, then we were into the "fair" section of the event. Lots of booths, including sign-up booths for military and military-adjacent jobs. We skipped the ground displays of military craft (I'll have to go there next year and spend time looking at that stuff. Ann wouldn't like it, will need to go by myself), wandered around a little bit until we saw where we could set up our chairs to view the events, east of the bleachers and paid seating areas. There were a couple of warm-up events that we didn't fully get to see, but we were there for the official opening ceremonies and all of the main event shows. Here's a breakdown of the agenda, with some notes:
1.
Altus AFB USAF C-17 and
KC-135 Demo (Including an interesting demo of in-flight refueling)
2.
Welcoming Ceremonies
Featuring USMC 3D MAW Marching Band, Mounted Color Guard, and USSOCOM
ParaCommandos
3.
USMC F-35B LIGHTNING II
Demo (This STVOL stealth fighter was really impressive and loud)
4.
USMC Marine Air Ground Task
Force (MAGTF) Demo (Lots of ground explosions and fireballs, it was difficult to see what was actually going on down on the field)
5.
Vicky Benzing P-51D “Plum
Crazy” Mustang Demo (She has a PhD in physical chemistry, basically flew the plane back and forth several times, it's impressive that a WWII-era plane can still fly)
6.
Race – Precision Exotics
vs. Vicky Benzing (Silly)
7.
Aarron Deliu Extra 330
Aerobatics (Excellent, he did amazing things with his plane, I saw him after the demonstration greeting people and being really gracious)
8.
USAF F-22 Raptor Demo w/
P-51 D Heritage Flight (The F-22 didn’t fly, it was a disappointment)
9.
Warbirds Over Miramar – The
Flying History of the USMC.
- P-40 Warhawk – Flying
Tigers Spirit
- SNJ Trainer – Turtle Bay
Legacy
- F4U Corsair – Pacific
Powerhouse (I remember this plane from Black Sheep Squadron)
- SNJ “War Dog” – Stateside
and Beyond
- PBJ-1J “Semper Fi” – The
Marine B-25 (Very cool-sounding dual-engine plane)
- AD-4N Skyraider – Cold War
Warrior
- OV-10 Bronco – Eyes of the
Corps
10. USN Blue Angels w/ Fat Albert (Big build-up, too much time spent on the Fat Albert flying around, the Blue Angels did their low-altitude show, which was impressive but not as cool as the high-altitude show, still very fun, and loud, to watch)
The weather held out for us, no rain at all and the sun stayed mostly behind the clouds, keeping it pretty cool. We walked back to the car after the show and had dinner at a Pho place on Mira Mesa Blvd, then drove home. Was a quiet evening, I watched the last episode of Season 1 of Dark Winds. Like Hillerman's mysteries, it was a little too busy at the end, wrapping up the story lines too neatly. Still, beautiful scenery and some (not all) decent acting.
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