Industrial Applications - Beyond Steam

BEYOND STEAM

Bob Sutton, Owner

While in college I was a member of the university gymnastics team and we used to run every day with a guy named Michael. Later I held a world record in hand walking and then somehow with the advent of children and business I found myself fat and forty.

As an overweight guy who used to run a lot I started to get really serious about remembering what my coach told me in college about how and why to run without hurting myself. I talked to a colleague who told me he used to run but that his knee had given out. When I asked how it happened he told me of an exercise in male stupidity that I am sure is repeated over and over.

I resolved to write a book outlining a reasonable course in exercise such as was taught me in college. Oddly I started writing about the week before September 11 th 2001. A few years later a friend suggested that I run a marathon as a fund raiser for cancer survivors. I ended up leading (sort of) the Boston Marathon in 2003 and 2004.

I began doing my long run training in Cades Cove in the Smokey Mountain National Park. Over three years of nearly consecutive Saturdays I have made serial photographs of perhaps the prettiest valley in the US through all kinds of weather in seasonal order. I am compiling this into a DVD of 5000 high resolution photos as a Windows XP screensaver with the proceeds going to charity.

Following is a couple of preliminary chapters of the aforementioned book and some samples of the photographs.