Training Archive: barbIn the 30 days ending 2007-06-30:
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Saturday Jun 30 | ||
| Event: Davos | ||
| Note | |
| Frankfurt.
Today´s Daily Telegraph has a news item about an 11 yr old boy killed while on a school orienteering outing in England when a 4-ton branch fell on him. | ||
| C • out of touch? 7 | ||
Friday Jun 29 | ||
| Note | |
| From the archives - Izzy and I at MIT in April:
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| C • Awesome 2 | ||
Thursday Jun 28 | ||
| Running 30:00 [1] | |
| Still a hint of coolness at 7:15 am. Jumped in the ocean afterward. Sad to say goodbye to west coast friends Renee, Bill and John. And sad to say goodbye to the house in Nahant, possibly FOREVER. It's been such a spiritually important place in my life for the past 20 years or so. The photos I have online only cover the past 5 years or so. | ||
| C • Apparently the Nahant house ha... 9 | ||
Wednesday Jun 27 | ||
| Running 23:33 [2] | |
| Very hot. 6:15 pm. To the point. | ||
Tuesday Jun 26 | ||
| Running 1:15:00 [1] | |
| weight:131lbs | ||
| 5 am start from Nahant. To train, then from train to work. With stop at gym for shower and stop at DD for treats, it took 2:15 to get to the office. I'm really sleepy though, too much partying in recent days (ABD). Might do some C as a result. But on the plus side, jogging this morning was actually nice; I thought, oh, maybe this is what it's like for people who don't mind running. It was cool. The sun rose as I started out, and hung dark red behind the haze until it had climbed a finger width above the horizon. It will be horribly hot today, and the omens were there, but it sure was nice early in the morning. | ||
| Note | |
| Had yet another total space case incident last night, forgetting about a phone meeting even though I'd been looking forward to it for days, and even though I'd set up multiple reminder systems. I am losing it.
On the plus side, the distractions (visiting friends) are pretty nice... | ||
| Running 23:00 [1] | |
| to the point, 7 pm | ||
| C • Wow, somebody is stepping up t... 2 | ||
Monday Jun 25 | ||
| Running 35:00 [4]3.8 mi (9:12 / mi) | |
| with john to meet dave coming from lynn | ||
| Swimming 8 [1] | |
| Jumped in the ocean and got out as quick as I could. | ||
| C • Intensity Level 2 | ||
Sunday Jun 24 | ||
| DDR 6:00 [2] | |
| Running 1:32:00 [2] | |
| Nahant street scramble route. Started at the library, and didn't go down on 40 steps beach, so my time for doing the scramble might have been 1:40 if I'd done the whole thing. | ||
Saturday Jun 23 | ||
| Bicycling 52:00 [3] | |
| Home to party in Medford and back. Probably 13 miles round trip. With Dave & John; so I was trying to book when we weren't at a red light. | ||
| Variegated (Three and four square) 15:00 [1] | |
| DDR 10:00 [2] | |
Thursday Jun 21 | ||
| Running 40:00 [1] | |
| Nahant to Lynn | ||
| Bicycling 15:00 [1] | |
| N St - home - work | ||
| Note | |
| OK, so we're going to have a party tomorrow in Nahant, and a street scramble to try and attract some O people, so please come. RSVP barb.bryant at gmail.com | ||
| C • Woohoo! 4 | ||
Wednesday Jun 20 | ||
| Running 40:00 [2] | |
| Nahant into Lynn. Barefoot along the beach. | ||
| Bicycling 12:00 [1] | |
| N St to DD to work | ||
| Bicycling 20:00 [1] | |
| work home N St | ||
| Running 30:00 [1] | |
| Part way to Spouting Horn. I was running too slow for Dave to run with me and too fast for him to walk, so we walked the rest of the way. | ||
Tuesday Jun 19 | ||
| Bicycling 44:00 [3]9.7 mi (4:31 / mi) | |
| Route. Did an errand on Boston Ave on the way. | ||
| Bicycling 36:00 [2]6.8 mi (5:17 / mi) | |
| Route | ||
| Running 30:00 [1] | |
| From Lynn into Nahant. Didn't like running. Walked the rest of the way to the house. | ||
| Bicycling 10:00 [1] | |
| Work to North Station to catch the train to Lynn | ||
Monday Jun 18 | ||
| Hiking 1:45:00 [1] | |
But no FDFs. 
Got a speeding ticket near Jaffrey NH. :-( Quizzed PG on vertical pacing. I came away with the impression that he sometimes imagines contour lines laid down over the land, and keeps track of how many of those he's crossed. Among other things. | ||
| C • None? 2 | ||
| C • Great pics! 3 | ||
| Bicycling 1:10:00 [2] | |
| Home to work, then later to Arlington for an appointment with Dave and back home. | ||
Sunday Jun 17 | ||
| DDR 10:00 [2] | |
| Calisthenics (Double dutch) 1:00 [3] | |
| Strength (jump rope twirling) 15:00 [1] | |
| Variegated (two-square) 30:00 [2] | |
| Note | |
| The kids flew off to Erie, PA to be with their dad & stepmom for the summer. | ||
Saturday Jun 16 | ||
| Note | |
Isabel's birthday party.
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Friday Jun 15 | ||
| Running 46:00 [1] | |
| to school then DD. so slow. At school the 1st & 2nd grade class presented me with a lovely booklet full of drawings and writing thanking me for the orienteering and science activities this year, along with a gift certificate for a bookstore. This is how the teacher ensures that I keep coming back year after year.
Later, home from work. | ||
| Note | |
| For Swampfox | ||
| Note | |
| Watched an excellent movie yesterday with the kids & Dave: The Story of the Weeping Camel. When they went to fetch a violinist to perform a ritual to solve an animal behavior problem, I was thinking, silly primitive Mongolians - they need an animal behavior specialist not a musician. But I was so wrong. Or right, but not understanding where the knowledge was. It's amazing how effective it can be to acknowledge and be with someone else's pain, whether they're a child or a camel, or at least that's how I was interpreting it. | ||
| C • So, did you find the whole mov... 5 | ||
| Bicycling 20:00 [1] | |
| With Isabel to Harvard zoology to drop off some 3D glasses to Jessica Rykken - but we weren't able to get into the building. On the way back we stopped for ice cream (Isabel) and iced coffee (moi). On the inland side of Memorial Drive where the walkway is wide, we rode side by side and Isabel told me about how she was playing four-square at recess with David (it's unusual that the siblings play together at recess) but Francibel threw the ball hard at her face and her braces cut her lip and she was spitting blood and went to the nurse. | ||
| Note | |
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Thursday Jun 14 | ||
| Strength 40:00 [2] | |
| weight:132lbs | ||
| At the gym with Ilene. My right knee regularly is painful when I do squat-like things, which Ilene has us do a lot. It also hurts some when I bike, or the day after a lot of biking. | ||
| Bicycling 8:00 [1] | |
| Commute | ||
| Note | |
Well, in celebration of today's news out of the Massachusetts Legislature, I guess I'll post this photo. Note my shoes.
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| Yoga 12:00 [1] | |
| abcdef by the skin of my teeth | ||
Wednesday Jun 13 | ||
| Running 22:00 [1] | |
| Milk run | ||
| Bicycling 37:00 [1] | |
| To school for 6th grade class breakfast, which included some seriously tear-jerking speeches from the kids. I'm impressed with how open and thoughtful they are, and how much they clearly value teamwork and friendship. They didn't shy away from talking about the more difficult things that have happened - a couple of them mentioned recent drama in the classroom around some anti-gay slurs that were used in the playground, and also some boy-girl stuff that's been going on. But mainly there was heartfelt appreciation for the teachers and each other and the shared experiences of the year, and speculation about 7th grade. | ||
| Note | |
| Well. I want to get back to the alphabet, and I'm going to try to start today.
I want to be sub-G again. I avoided the delicious looking coffee cake at breakfast, though I spent an inordinate amount of time thinking about the coffee cake, turning it over in my mind and imagining the cinnamony sugar melting in my mouth, and the crunch of the pecans. | ||
| Strength 1:00 [1] | |
| OK, a lame start to the E part of the alphabet, but a start nonetheless.
abcdef On eating: I'm focusing on avoiding sugar (D) and caffeine (C), but otherwise no restrictions. And even with C and D I'm not being too strict: the occasional decaf coffee and muffin is officially allowed. So if I want to get sub-G I'm probably going to have to add a letter at some point. | ||
Tuesday Jun 12 | ||
| Note | |
Bob Reddick sent me this:
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| C • Hey, nice photo. I assume it's... 3 | ||
| Bicycling 8:00 [1] | |
| Work commute. | ||
Monday Jun 11 | ||
| Bicycling 1:28:00 [3] | |
| To Boojum and back. Then work and back. | ||
| Hiking 1:00:00 [1] | |
| Setting controls, picking up controls.
A successful field trip for two classes of 4th graders, including one English immersion class. The kids arrived at 9:30, and did a white course in 6 groups of 5 to the lunch spot. Then each group did a different off-trail course, again finding puzzle pieces in envelopes. They also logged evidence of erosion that they saw, and took photos. In order to be sure that they'd find some erosional activity, I visited the control locations ahead of time (yesterday), unlike for David's field trip. [In re-reading this I realize it sounds like my visit to the control locations may have *caused* some erosion, but that's not what I meant...] The maps and instructions and erosion logging sheets were also a bit more time-consuming to create. Forgot to have the kids assign roles within groups for the navigating and for the science piece. :-( I think it was geared to the right level; one kid asked why I'd made it so easy, and a couple groups struggled - but everyone made it out of the woods to meet the bus at 12:45. All but one puzzle piece were found. 
(Photos by Isabel) Some serious poison ivy (hopefully no one contacted it) and noticeable mosquitos. We saw one really big dark brown snake, curled up under a rock. 
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| Note | |
| As I was heading out of the house to go to work, I stopped to say hello to my neighbor Ann-Marie who was talking to a new neighbor, Hannah Kim, who lives a few houses down on Pearl Street. Hannah teaches 1st grade at the nearby Morse school, so without wasting any time, I got right to telling her I'd like to take her class to the woods next year. She seemed interested, but what else could she do in the face of my proselytizing onslaught? | ||
Sunday Jun 10 | ||
| Orienteering race 58:00 [3] | |
| Motala at the Blue Hills. This was really fun. 3 loops, mass start, 6 different orders in which people took the loops. It was not White-Yellow-Orange at all - but 3 good sprintish loops requiring fine navigation. Way more fun than I had imagined. | ||
| Bicycling 1:20:00 [2] | |
| To Boojum and back | ||
| Hiking 2:00:00 [1] | |
| Setting controls for tomorrow's field trip | ||
Saturday Jun 9 | ||
| Note | |
| Woke up awfully late (7 am) from a rogaine nightmare. Nothing was going right. Inefficiencies, lost maps, sitting around not doing anything, forgetting to bring the right backpack, Peter having tachycardia, helicopters overhead dropping firebombs... There were hundreds and hundreds of controls. We found just one during the whole dream. I do remember that in the dream I looked at his head to see just how it was misshapen. It wasn't. | ||
| C • :-) And I thought I had anxie... 1 | ||
| Bicycling 40:00 [2] | |
| to grocery store, then school where izzy is having a sleepover, then home. Heard an accident on the way home and turned around to make sure someone called 911 and that everyone was OK (they seemed to be). Saw the emergency vehicles a few minutes later, heading toward the scene. Otherwise, a very nice morning. Hazy but cool. | ||
| Note | |
Last soccer game of the season. Awesome game - unbelievably fun to watch. The girls have come a long way from the days when they'd all bunch up on the ball. The team has excellent footwork and passing and goal-tending (all of which is why they're so fun to watch); what we missed this season were regular power shots on goal.
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Friday Jun 8 | ||
| Running 20:00 [3] | |
| It's a nice day for a white wedding | ||
| C • I'll bite 6 | ||
| Yoga 45:00 [1] | |
| Nice to get back to this. | ||
| Bicycling 5:00 [1] | |
| Work to City Hall for the ceremony, followed by coffee at 1369. I'll post photos after the parties have had a chance to notify families etc. Unless they object.
And to add a little extra spice to the day, I saw Rosstopher on a corner, looking vaguely around for a good coffee shop! I pointed him at Mariposa. Apparently he's doing some experiment in a building near my work today. | ||
| C • Ross standing on the corner lo... 1 | ||
Thursday Jun 7 | ||
| Bicycling 20:00 [1] | |
| home school work. Gorgeous cool sunny breezy day. Rode through H Sq where parents and grads and cops were amassing for today's ceremonies.
Met with Judy Richards, Isabel's teacher, in preparation for Monday's trip to the woods with 35 4th-graders. This is the trip where we'll be ostensibly studying erosion as well as orienteering. | ||
| C • onstensibly 4 | ||
| Bicycling 20:00 [2] | |
| To school to talk to the kids about Monday's field trip, then back to work. Izzy and I did a little skit to illustrate what the teams will do in the woods. I made up a 5-step sequence of questions, kind of on the spot, so they're probably not ideal - but the class took them pretty seriously and memorized them:
1. Is the map oriented? 2. Where are we now? 3. Where are we going? 4. How are we going to get there? 5. What will we see along the way? Went through H Sq again. Earlier the grads were separate from their families; now they were intermingled in small groups containing one graduate and several family members, and the graduates were looking proud and happy. | ||
| Note | |
| New treatment for poison ivy is in the works. | ||
| Note | |
| Giovanni told us about a map he had made near Trento, Italy. It sounds like a great map; they're putting on a big meet on it late in September. It's on a slope, and if you get to the top of the slope (just off the map), you come to a 1000-foot cliff on the other side that people base-jump off of. There are signs posted suggesting that you not jump off here if it is your first time, and also listing the names of the people who died doing it. | ||
Wednesday Jun 6 | ||
| Bicycling 36:00 [3]7.4 mi (4:51 / mi) | |
| To Bolton Engineering, somewhat uphill. This ride was possible due to the work of Giovanni, who showed me how to patch a tire last night when I got home from the airport. Thanks, Giovanni! | ||
| Hiking 50:00 [2] | |
| Setting out controls for David's 6th grade class trip.
I met the class at the Oak Grove T station. I gave them street maps to get to the nearest trailhead, and the Middlesex Fells trail map to get onto the O map. Then they did a white course to get to the lunch spot. After lunch, the four teams divvied up the off-trail control locations; each team of 3 or 4 kids got 5 controls. At each control was an envelope containing a puzzle piece. When we came back together, they put the puzzle together to figure out where to find the "treasure". I prepared and printed the maps this morning. So now I know that by waking up at 4:45 a.m., I can do everything starting from scratch to be ready by 9:30 to deal with a bunch of kids at a Boojum event. And that included a Dunkin Donuts run and a bike ride (and help setting out the controls). Their total time from subway station back to subway station was 9:50 - 1:10 = 3:20. Let me document this more carefully for future reference: 9:50 - meet at subway station. Divide into groups. Call the missing parent and try to help her find us. 10:00 - walk to woods 10:23 - arrive at start of Boojum map; find the missing parent 10:32 - first group out on the white course 10:42 - last group out on the white course 11:02 - first group arrives at white finish (lunch spot) 11:25 - last group arrives at white finish 11:31 - first group out on puzzle-O 11:41 - last group out on puzzle-O 12:00 - first group finishes puzzle-O 12:43 - last group finishes puzzle-O 12:46 - walk back to subway 12:59 - stop for a minute to find treasure 13:10 - enter subway station While setting out controls, I got a call from a parent who wanted to pick his kid up smack in the middle of the orienteering. Okaaay... So I told him where to park his car, and I left him a map under a rock so he could find us at our lunch spot. That worked fine. 
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| Bicycling 35:00 [2]6.5 mi (5:23 / mi) | |
| To work from Oak Grove T stop. A truly fine day to be playing hooky. Cool, breezy - great for biking in. | ||
Tuesday Jun 5 | ||
| Running 18:00 [1] | |
| Short run before the meeting started at 8... | ||
| Note | |
| This was my last trip to DC as a FASEB board member. I went to Capitol Hill today. We traveled from the board meeting to downtown DC in a rented bus that was decked out for bachelor parties, with a bar and black leather and leopard skin, and a huge mirror on the ceiling. It was funny to see the staid important scientists in this decor.
On the way the bus passed the courthouse where Scooter Libby was being sentenced. Too bad all the people that should have been sentenced weren't even charged with anything... We first visited Republican representative Dan Barton from Texas to thank him for his support of the NIH and work on the NIH reauthorization bill. Then we met with the chief policy staffer for Democratic Maryland senator Ben Cardin. That was pretty interesting, with some energetic back and forth on an issue a colleague of mine was concerned with. | ||
| C • Too bad we're in Iraq too, whi... 3 | ||
Sunday Jun 3 | ||
| Event: NEOC - Nobscot | ||
| Note | |
| I'm going to DC for a meeting tomorrow (Mon) & Tue. | ||
| C • DC 2 | ||
| Orienteering race 1:24:00 [3]6.5 km (12:55 / km) | |
| Nobscot. | ||
Red - Splits | ||
Saturday Jun 2 | ||
| Running 27:00 [3]2.9 mi (9:18 / mi) | |
| Fast for me. With Dave around Nahant.including some trails and little hills. | ||
| Note | |
Today the ref didn't show up for Isabel's soccer game. Dave agreed to ref. Isabel and I (and Dave) were concerned that Dave didn't really know the rules. He did some last-minute boning up by asking us what the rules were, but Isabel was still concerned enough that she asked me to talk to the coach, and suggested that another mother might make a better ref. Dave did OK. There was some muttered disagreement about his calls, but he was so open about being new to it, and they were so desperate for a ref, that everyone was quite nice to him and the girls thanked him at the end. He had a big grin on his face the whole time. He said it was amazing to be watching the game from the middle of it, close up to where the girls were doing all their amazing moves. Better than the sidelines, and better than TV.
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| Note | |
Today's impulse purchase:
Both Dave and Isabel were there, and they didn't stop me. | ||
| C • stilettos 11 | ||
Friday Jun 1 | ||
| Note | |
| Took 17 kids + 5 adults to George's Island.
We collected insects. 
Then we examined them to try to figure out what order they each were. 
Then we went orienteering. A couple of the control flags disappeared, and I was quite annoyed with the high school students who swarmed over the island. They were foul-mouthed, traveled in packs and now they'd taken two of my precious nine controls. (I need to put control flags on my Christmas list!) Later we figured out the rangers had taken down my flags, and I got them back. 
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