Training Archive: barbIn the 31 days ending 2008-01-31:
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Thursday Jan 31 | ||
| Yoga 1:00:00 [1] | |
| Tried to be very careful about my right knee. It continued to bother me the next few days after this. | ||
Friday Jan 25 | ||
| Bicycling 30:00 [1] | |
| I have to say, I find this DNA engineering stuff disturbing. I love the George Church quote though. | ||
| C • DNA 6 | ||
| Note | |
| Finished watching Hitler: Rise to Power, with David. (He's studying Hitler at school.) | ||
Thursday Jan 24 | ||
| Bicycling 8:00 [1] | |
| Today I'm definitely sore from falling off the bike.
Feeling kind of low. | ||
| Yoga 1:00:00 [1] | |
| Start of a new lunchtime series at work. Forgot to bring clothes, so did it in my jeans. For most people that would restrict their movement a lot. For me, not so much, because I'm so inflexible anyway.
It was really hard for me. I felt sick, and regretted having had wine at the work reception yesterday and caffeine from DD this morning, and not enough other liquids. I'm cautious about my right knee which continues to have that old twinge under the kneecap and has been quite noticeable of late. | ||
| Running 38:00 [2] | |
| Ran around Fresh Pond while Isabel was at gymnastics. Ran fast for a whole minute.
Later, I took David to Biogen for this cool program they have introducing kids & parents to lab biology. We did a pharmacogenomics experiment, which is particularly neat since pharmacogenomics is what I (supposedly) do for a living. Except I'm not in the lab, I just sit in front of the computer trying to avoid the AP/DK temptation. We ran restriction digested DNA on gels to (supposedly) distinguish between leukemia patients with working and faulty TPMT enzymes, which affects their ability to benefit from 6-MP treatment. Best moment: turning on the UV light and seeing the bands light up in the gel - so beautiful! The instructor was really good at explaining the biology behind it (DNA -> protein, for example). Biogen has been doing this for nearly a decade, and their goal is to expose all Cambridge kids to this biology lab, in 6th grade, 8th grade and high school. They're nearly there with the 8th grade. 
We got to wear lab coats and safety glasses, and use pipetters. | ||
Wednesday Jan 23 | ||
| Bicycling 30:00 [1] | |
| Commute, with trip to Boston.
My soreness factor is at risk today - just a bit from doing situps. Watching Letterman was fun. Zack found a way to get noticed. It was fun to see John Edwards, but my favorite guest was the screenwriter. 13 hits to go to 15000. Thanks for visiting! It's nice and odd to have this somewhat amorphous & generally friendly "listening" out there. | ||
| Note | |
| Hey - I'm mentioned in a DailyKos blog entry! Given that I'm an addicted lurker on DK, I find that pretty funny. | ||
| C • DK 3 | ||
Tuesday Jan 22 | ||
| Yoga 1:00:00 [1] | |
| With Isabel, Amisi & Marguerite. Yay!
Sore: check. Sub-G: probably OK. Just found out about the Nova Scotia rogaine, April 26-27. Bummer, since I recently purchased tix to return from Paris April 26. Should I try and change them? Maybe. Ann Marie may do the June rogaine with me since she's owed me for 5 years ever since she agreed to do a Laurentian rogaine and then got pregnant instead. It was cool to do it with Brad, her husband, instead, and it's very cool to have little Keegan running around, but I still lust for the chance to partner with AM. 
Ann Marie & Keegan, with Brad in the background. | ||
| C • Photo op 3 | ||
| Bicycling 30:00 [1] | |
| To work & back, then to school in the evening for a presentation by our amazing teachers on their project-based approach. Fell off the bike! Not sure exactly what happened, but I think my front toe clip caught the back of the front fender when I was trying to turn sharply. Fell onto my left side, with the knee & elbow taking most of the impact, then the hip & shoulder. Not sure if my helmet hit too. It hurt but I seem OK now. Falling off my bike is perhaps not the best way to try and get sore. | ||
| C • Replace your helmet 6 | ||
Monday Jan 21 | ||
| Bicycling 8:00 [1] | |
| commute.
New goals: (1) remain sub-G (2) feel sore every day | ||
| C • Wow 3 | ||
| Note | |
| I had a sudden conversion moment last night, when I realized that deep water running (not that I know exactly how it works or have ever done it or anything) is a really fine thing that I want to do. I guess the final straw was reading peggyd's log.
Except I don't know where to go to do it. Can't find it, exactly, on YMCA or MIT web sites. Made some progress on my sub-G goal last night by cutting off about 6 inches of hair. | ||
| C • Water running is like... 1 | ||
| C • Water running is like... 13 | ||
| Note | |
Our friend, and bass player, Zack Hickman will be on David Letterman with his friend Josh Ritter tomorrow night, 2/22/08. In the photo below, he's the one on the right. The guy on the left is bass builder Creston Lea. I told Dave to try and get Zack to have Josh do a gig in Tucson while we're there, but that's even less likely than getting Matt Cordes to do a gig then, or getting Matt to get Clare Burson to do a gig, both of which I've tried. Matt says it's a good idea but he's got to submit a grant renewal on March 5, so he'll be too busy.
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Sunday Jan 20 | ||
| Variegated 2:00 [1] | |
| Candlepin bowling with the neighbor girls. Elapsed time was 30 minutes. Logged as 6 seconds per frame. Just to take my question about frequent intervals vs solid training to an extreme. Let's see, if I bowled for 24 hours, that would give me 24 * 2 * 2 = 96 minutes, quite respectable for a day of training. Which is better rogaine training, that or a bridge circuit? Hm, wonder if I can still use that bowling coupon. | ||
| Note | |
| weight:137lbs | ||
Saturday Jan 19 | ||
| Bicycling 1:00:00 [1] | |
| Errands around town. Sent some orienteering related items off at the post office. Delivered raw materials for writing 150 biographies for the opera program to 4 writers and discussed it with 3 of them. So that was good, given my general reluctance to actually talk to people.
The kids went to Pennsylvania this morning; the plane left at 6. I had those weird cramps in the middle of the night, like I did on my birthday a year or two ago (when I went to the hospital). I was the only adult in a house with 4 kids, though, so I couldn't go to the hospital. Which would have been silly anyway, as it got better after some tea and baking soda and sitting up reading a book about China - by a guy who was there in 1999 when there were riots after the US bombed a Chinese embassy in Kosovo. After I went back to sleep I had a lot of vivid dreams about art and not waking up in time to get to the airport. When I told the kids about the dreams, David said, pay careful attention to any art you see in your dreams, because I could use those ideas - if it's in a dream, it's probably not been done in the real world. Dave is ice climbing so I'm on my own this weekend, except for a bit of neighbor kid wrangling. | ||
| Bicycling 1:10:00 [3]18.0 mi (3:53 / mi) | |
| Out to the south end of Prospect Hill Park, around, and back. | ||
| Orienteering 1:00:00 [2] | |
| Only visited the first half of the controls, then came back on trails. It was fun wandering around in the snowy woods in the winter night. Ice Bugs would have been good; just had my Italian light hikers. Brendan set this up; Lori and Ian were also there. Found out that Ian is working doing algorithms for analyzing big corporate data sets. | ||
Friday Jan 18 | ||
| Note | |
| It's never too cold to exercise. The cracking ear is just gross though. | ||
| Bicycling 8:00 [1] | |
Thursday Jan 17 | ||
| Bicycling 45:00 [2] | |
| to work, home, then from gymnastics to work then home. then to the high school to learn about high school for David, then to a reception at the Broad institute where I saw some old Millennium-ites and scored a couple hugs from Mark Levin. Then to Tosci's which was all dark and has been SEIZED for non-payment of taxes, so no ice cream for me tonight, then on to home. | ||
| C • SEIZED! 8 | ||
| Note | |
| So if I exercise for 45 minutes in the course of a day, not all at once but in 7 chunks of as few as 4 minutes, is that better or worse (from the point of view of maintaining fitness) than doing it all at once? Most everyone exercises in much larger chunks. 4 minutes is enough time that I warm up. | ||
Wednesday Jan 16 | ||
| Bicycling 8:00 [1] | |
| Commute, including DD. Cold fingers & toes.
Started reading some of the B Franklin biography last night. The night before, I dived into the book that my parents gave David for Xmas, Oliver Wiswell. Written in 1940, the protagonist is a British royalist during the American Revolution. Wow, I just realized you can read it online. Apparently this was a popular book when my dad was a kid. I like the writing. And it takes place around here (of course) - eg I was skirting one of the shoulders of Great Blue Hill, expecting each moment to see spread before me the distant twinkling lights on Brush Hill and Milton Hill, and beyond them the rising triple wave of golden pin points that meant Boston, when my mare threw up her head and shied; and in the same moment I saw, at the foot of the slope before me, a sliver of golden flame licking at the corner of a barn. Hm, maybe we can have a "Boston mob" on the next Traverse T shirt. Monday afternoon during the snow day I took David to MIT for a lecture by one of the GAMBIT videogame people. It was OK, not great. She talked about the adventure game genre, and stories. This afternoon I'll meet the kids at the bus stop and take them to MIT to get a fencing demo. This is thanks to Geoff, who was a champion fencer back when we were in college, and maintains a relationship with the coach. | ||
| C • coach 4 | ||
| Note | |
My first cell phone video! | ||
Tuesday Jan 15 | ||
| Yoga 1:00:00 [2] | |
| Went with Isabel to a new place at 6:30 am. Isabel did a good job of getting up and getting dressed so early. The instructor went over time so we had to leave before shivasina. Or whatever it's called. In order to make the school bus. | ||
| Bicycling 8:00 [1] | |
| Today was a good day for knocking off some things that were in the "dreaded" category on my to-do list. Dreaded because of how long I procrastinated, and how visible the assignments were. I had to draft a proposed revised policy statement (on software sharing), and provide all the background justification including summarizing (but first getting) feedback from the community. And I had to draft a recommendation on whether our society should remain a member of a federation. And I had to propose a replacement for myself as committee chair. And I had to do it all by yesterday when I met with the Executive Committee. So I sat down yesterday morning and knocked it all off, and did a pretty good job if I do say so myself. The meeting was actually quite a let-down because they didn't acknowledge all my hard work or even let me finish presenting, but jumped in with sudden, not-thought-ought ideas about changes to one minor part of our recommendatoin. Sigh. But it's not all over yet - we go to the full Board in a few weeks, and I can carry out the battles by email in the meantime. I'm extracting myself from this society - stopped being VP last year, and as of now am no longer on the Board, and am finding a replacement for me as committee chair - and I must say I'm glad because I find the president (though I am fond of him) quite awkward to work with, and it will be nice to have rid myself of one source of stress and over-commitment. I love the executive officer though, and plan to remain friends with her! | ||
Monday Jan 14 | ||
| Shoveling 30:00 [3] | |
| Inch of slush on the bottom - heavy.
No school for the kids. | ||
Friday Jan 11 | ||
| Bicycling 30:00 [2] | |
| To work, to school for meeting with Madame Margot, back to work, to home. A dark and rainy day. Dave was hit by a car on his bike ride home from work, but he's OK. The car stopped, and Dave walked over to it, and said, you should be more careful. The driver was apologetic and said, i probably shouldn't be trying to make a phone call while driving. | ||
| Running 1:00:00 [1] | |
| Ran with Terry Farrah from the Gymnastics Academy around Fresh Pond and to Radcliffe, then back to the Academy. Yay!
Pain under my right shoulder blade. From running, somehow. | ||
Thursday Jan 10 | ||
| Bicycling 8:00 [1] | |
| It needs editting, but here is the video of the Lego club kids making ratatouille and crepes yesterday:
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| C • as they say in O-circles... 2 | ||
Sunday Jan 6 | ||
| Note | |
| Had a whole plan to run while Isabel did her swim clinic in NH but instead I napped on a bench. I did look at a local Manchester paper, and saw a picture of Lex Bundschuh!
Last night we completed a Lord of the Rings movie marathon. Lots of good O terrain in those movies! | ||
| C • Good orienteering terrain. 18 | ||
Saturday Jan 5 | ||
| Running 50:00 [2] | |
| Back from dropping Isabel off at soccer, then to the bike shop. | ||
| Bicycling 20:00 [1] | |
| Bike shop to Peabody school.
Later, to a nearby intersection to get a mystery cell phone from a stranger, and then to the grocery store to get food for dinner. | ||
| Note | |
| Today I encountered a couple of reverse problems. Isabel was typing on her lap (on an imaginary keyboard) and I was trying to read what letters she was typing and it was really hard. I couldn't do it at all actually, except by typing the alphabet and figuring out which key is where that way.
Later I got a call at home from a woman who had just found a cell phone on the ground and started calling the numbers in its address book. She was a few blocks away, so I rode over and got it from her. I was wondering how I'd figure out whose it was - maybe inference from the people in the address book, if I recognized them. There is probably an obvious solution, but I'm not terribly cell phone savvy. It was running out of battery power, so I was concerned we wouldn't get enough information before it died. As it turns out, the person had their name on the screen when you open the phone. It's a classmate of Isabel (the entry for our home phone number was labeled "Izzy", which would have been a good clue). | ||
Friday Jan 4 | ||
| Running 1:05:00 [1] | |
| To work at 6. To Arlington at 7. Usually I bike, but the bike is in the shop. Took the Minuteman Trail, which Arlington is kindly keeping clear this winter, for the first time. It was cold, single digits when I started. Dave drove so I had a ride back. | ||
| Stair climbing 2:00 [3] | |
| Note | |
| A couple New Year's resolutions have been falling by the wayside each day. Yesterday it was caffine and alcohol. The day before it was sugar and something else. Before that, exercise. But I am happy that for 3 workdays I've kept the resolution about not visiting dailyKos, websudoku or AP at work. | ||
Thursday Jan 3 | ||
| Running 25:00 [1] | |
| To work and back in the morning (5-6:30). So cold! Then late in the day, home from the bike shop. | ||
| Bicycling 35:00 [1] | |
| Put lots more outerwear on after the cold run. Long undies & down vest. The To school for a parent meeting. Then work. Then home when Isabel felt scared home alone (David had gone to volunteer at a preschool). Then to the bike shop.
My mind is beginning to fail. I am pretty convinced that this is the early stage of what will end up being a long downhill slide into dementia. Today I went to a jr high parent meeting. I recognized most of the people in the circle, but did not remember who most of them were parents to, and certainly not their names. I sat near a woman who was extremely familiar, but it took me half a minute to place her. It is the science teacher! With whom I worked on the orienteering field trip, and met with just a few weeks ago about David, and so on. Unbelievable. I feel kind of sad and a little scared. Who I am is what I know, and I am slipping away. | ||
| C • Dementia and who you are 21 | ||
Wednesday Jan 2 | ||
| Bicycling 8:00 [1] | |
| First official day back at work for a week and a half. Nice break.
I went in early in an attempt to relieve my work anxiety. 5 am. It was cold. | ||
Tuesday Jan 1 | ||
| Running 15:00 [1] | |
| To work and back to get a bit of a headstart on 2008. | ||
| Stair climbing 4:00 [3] | |