June 23-24, 2025 - EHP Reviewer Panel, SCEC Cont., Writing Continued, LOR

In the last two days I:

- Wrote a nice letter of recommendation to USU Natural Resources for a recent graduate (1.5 hours)
- Accepted a service responsibility to join a review panel for this year's USGS Earthquake Hazards Proposals. It will be nice to provide some service to this organization which helped support my Ph.D. work and some of my pre-tenure research here at UVU. 
- Watch more of SCEC 2024 (1 hour) 
- Wrote more of Chapter 1 of my Adv. GIS Book (2.5 hours) 

Crushed a solid road ride part way up American Fork Canyon, beating my PRs for every segment past the turn to Tibble Fork Reservoir and also got a few other PRs on valley side of the ride, mostly on short hills. Basically, all indicators are that my cycling fitness is as good as it has been in the past six years. I was on pace for 4-5 minutes faster up Timpanogos from the Am fork side had I had time to continue, but I had to return back to make lunch for my father-in-law. Oh well... Still 43 miles, 2800 ft of climbing at a 15.5 mph pace overall and I wasn't crushed at all. Cannot say the weather didn't help things as it was about 65 degrees! 

5 hours work and 3 hours cycling. 

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