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I spent a lot of time outside in April. The first two weekends I did long bike rides: from Brooklyn to Tarrytown along the Old Croton Aqueduct trail, and out to Rockaway Beach via the Marine Parkway Bridge & Cross Bay Memorial Bridge.Then, I ran the Brooklyn Experience Half Marathon. I wrote some notes about the experience over in /micro. I properly trained for it this time, and it felt good and was pretty fast: shaved five minutes off my previous record.And then, the Great Saunter…The Great Saunter is a full loop around Manhattan. The route is 32 miles but it took us 33 with GPS jitter and detours. Ten hours and forty-three minutes. It was very difficult, in a lot of ways tougher than the half-marathon in terms of the stress it puts on the body.I'm getting more comfortable with longer endurance events, but still have no interest in running a marathon, and definitely no ultramarathons. A 200-300km randonneuring ride though could be in the cards.ReadingI read The Origins of Efficiency…